Published my last podcast interview this spring with Julia Grosinger (ICTA-UAB) in #34. Moving into rural areas, human needs, loved places, participatory methods. Always learning, loving this open format. https://t.co/fpNfWQV6GW (also Spotify, Apple, website) #postgrowthplanning
🛣️Infrastructures and how to take socio-material relations (in #postgrowthplanning) seriously? Matthias Kranke (Duisburg-Essen) & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (Groningen) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner' #33. 📻 https://t.co/3NjrZOnYRH (also on YouTube & others) #podcast
🏡From systems thinking in housing to the manifesto for housing in a post-growth world. Running through #postgrowthplanning with @annapagani.bsky.social in podcast episode #32 - 'a collective activity of mutual learning, informed by a systems approach' 📻 https://t.co/PeXwm2qeW0
🌱 "We cannot think of any future if we do not think about housing". Anna Pagani (King's College London) in #32 of 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner'. Systems thinking, housing justice & manifesto as call to action and commitment. ▶️ https://t.co/7O8L6tu7xk #postgrowthplanning
🌎 Extending the scope of 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner'. ❓How we change that big paradigm of architecture: building is growing, growing is welfare, and it's also progress and happiness. 🎯 https://t.co/WGfz7QCMBv (also on other platforms) #postgrowthplanning#podcast
🏖️🏙️"It's completely possible" Doing, undoing, redoing in architecture and #postgrowthplanning. Alejandro del Castillo Sánchez (n'UNDO) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner', #31. Exploring scope & edges of (growth-based) architecture ▶️ https://t.co/Bn1NTapgWZ & Spotify & website.
⁉️ "Citizens in urban futures, shaping post-growth planning together?" Invitation to join the talk and discusion in Vancouver (Canada) at Simon Fraser University on Fri 8 May. #postgrowthplanning#rolesinplanning
🌱It's growing! Three years & 11,600 views since "The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth" in Planning Theory&Practice (with Dan Durrant, Yvonne Rydin) 🛋️ https://t.co/vYoZBGvczU #postgrowthplanning@postgrowthplan
📌We have a PhD position in our department at the intersection of AI / climate-responsive cities / youth inclusion.
🔝Great supervision team. 4 years of funding.
🗓️Apply by 30 April.
https://t.co/GXxnKVr7Ir
Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.
"Peace must be made real and tangible in the daily existence of every individual in need. Peace must be sought, above all, because it is the condition for every member of the human family to live a life of dignity and security."
- Kofi Annan in his #NobelPeacePrize lecture
Pope Leo XIV appeals for peace in the Middle East and recalls that attacks against civilian infrastructure are against international law.
https://t.co/UwvAtGgcOw
🧭 Call for Papers: Complexity Unpacked: Analytical Tools & Practical Insights for Uncertain Futures. 🗓️ 8-9 Jan 2027, University of Nicosia (Cyprus). 24th Conference of the AESOP TG on Planning and Complexity. ⏰15 June 2026. See https://t.co/puxQz8AoI0 #AESOP#Complexity
🖌️New episode of 'Becoming a post-growth planner' with @SofiaGreaves1 . Looking back to what happened since our talk in 2023 (episode 13). And to what comes next in Oslo. "Spatial planning is in many ways generating problems for itself to solve, right?"📻 https://t.co/pPLu91p6mi
🎨"Post-Growth Planning is in need of creative methods for collectively imagining new futures". @SofiaGreaves1 on arts-based methods, housing, community - and: stories, experiences, emotions, in environmental engineering? ▶️ https://t.co/xKb6jzURFj #postgrowthplanning#podcast
City of the Commons or City of Commodities? How urban commons and social movements struggle for a radically democratic creative city in Groningen. Bart Popken (GSSI, Italy / University of Groningen) in the 'Where is Urban Politics?' series in Groningen 📺 https://t.co/FjGNDbwR9l
Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier hat den Krieg der USA und Israels gegen den Iran als „völkerrechtswidrig“ kritisiert: „Unsere Außenpolitik wird nicht überzeugender dadurch, dass wir Völkerrechtsbruch nicht Völkerrechtsbruch nennen.“
🏙️ 🙅♂️'Institutional activism within the local state: exploring ambitions for deep transformation in Amsterdam'. Line Kvartborg Vestergard in a short interview for #PlanningDynamics26 (by Ferry van Kann & me) about her paper with Benedikt Schmid. 📺 https://t.co/59Ujc6Z66E
Planetary boundaries in the real world - Ports & Global Maritime in #CriticalApproaches26 by @muhalefetserhi & me in Groningen: 🌍️A special pleasure welcoming Tanner Tuttle (One Planet Port & alumni of #CriticalApproaches23) for presentation & open discussion!
Het college van bestuur neemt binnenkort een voorlopig besluit over de fusieplannen voor faculteiten. De Wetenschapsfractie in de u-raad bepleit in een open brief een tussenweg; er zijn meer manieren denkbaar om de RUG minder bureaucratisch te maken. https://t.co/RiK52NdBMT
⚠️There are things that are just no market goods, to begin with: basic human rights, sovereign countries and territories, freedom of thinking and speaking.
🎙️"Within the discipline, there is something going on". Christian Schulz (Luxembourg) on past & present of post-growth planning. Strong sustainability in social and environmental terms. 28th episode 📽️YouTube: https://t.co/YPfZUYmCoG & Spotify, Website. #postgrowthplanning