{"id":1845,"date":"2014-07-23T07:10:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projet-decroissance.net\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2014-07-23T07:10:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:10:18","slug":"a-degrowth-project-at-the-lab-session-of-the-institute-of-desirable-futures-growth-and-degrowth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.projet-decroissance.net\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0A Degrowth Project\u00a0\u00bb at the Lab Session of the Institute of Desirable Futures: Growth and Degrowth."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Le<\/a>For over a year, \u00ab\u00a0A Degrowth Project\u00a0\u00bb<\/i>\u00a0has been invited to participate to Institute of Desirable Futures\u2019s Lab Session. Lab Sessions provide \u201ca two-way journey into the complexity during which some 20 participants from diverse horizons explore the limits of our reality to better overcome them\u201d. The Lab Session provide a prospective experience in deciphering the present using contemporary world cartographies and experimentations, testimonies and know-hows, weak signals and questions.<\/p>\n

Here is the summary of our last session with Sophie Dumaret, a resident journalist at Lab#4:
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\n\u201cWith Vincent Liegey, we explore the anti-thesis of the contemporary paradigm: Degrowth. A Growth Objector, Vincent introduces the term and its meaning. In the first instance, Degrowth is a \u201csemantic bomb\u201d, a tool to question the religion of Growth we have been bottled-fed since birth and to gather some hindsight on Growth erected as the ultimate end game and the cure to all our ills. This term encompasses a pathway for a transformation, the decolonisation of our imaginary and a detox plan. By repositioning meaning at the centre of the debate, by unravelling the absurdity of the unfettered growth of the last decades and by being disconnected from the essential \u2013 wellbeing – the idea of \u201cDegrowth\u201d opens the doors of the possibles. Once we are freed from this dogma, it is a matter of \u201c thinking what an economically, socially just and respectful of the environment society would look like\u201d and \u201c to build transitions towards new models of desirable societies \u201c.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Vincent presents A Degrowth Project<\/i> (http:\/\/www.projet-decroissance.net\/page? id=28<\/a>). Here is the synthesis of the key elements:<\/p>\n