Ways out of the growth economy

3rd colloquium for young academics

April 4, 2014
2.30 p.m. – Opening of the colloquium Klaus Wiegandt Founder and Chairman Forum for Responsibility Former Spokesman of the Management Board of METRO AG Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer Director of Futur Zwei. Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit, Professor for Transformation Design at the University of Flensburg
15.00 – Lecture: Decoupling? Why “green growth” is not enough as an answer to the ecological crisis Dr. Bernd Sommer Research Associate at the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research (NEC) at the University of Flensburg
16.30 – Lecture: From expansive to reductive modernity Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer
20.15 – Lecture: Beating capitalism by its own means? Prof. Dr. Friedrich von Borries Architect and Professor of Design Theory and Curatorial Practice at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg

April 5, 2014
09.00 a.m. – Lecture: Niko Paech Associate Professor at the Chair of Production and Environment (PUM) at the University of Oldenburg
10.00 a.m. – Lecture: Lessons in Lessening: Learning from the shrinking city? Dr.-Ing. Saskia Hebert architect (subsolar* architektur & stadtforschung) and head of lived/space/lab at the Berlin University of the Arts
11.30 a.m. – Lecture: Regionalization as a farewell to progressive thinking? Gerolf Hanke PhD on the “Culture of Sufficiency” at the University of Flensburg, winner of the Kapp Research Prize of the Association for Ecological Economics 2012
12.30 p.m. – Lecture: Living and doing business differently in everyday life Dr. Friederike Habermann (requested) Economist and historian, author of “Peninsulas against the current”
from 3 p. m. – Workshops on the topic “How do we get CONCRETE into the post-growth society?
20.15 – Lecture: The great transformation – the path to sustainable development Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy in Wuppertal and Professor of Innovation Management and Sustainability at the University of Wuppertal

April 6, 2014
09.00 – 10.30 a.m. – Continuation of the workshops
11.00 – 13.30 – Presentation of the results of the workshops