Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

Large part of everyday consumption is related to housing. Conventional housing is extremely resource intensive, regarding both a) construction and b) dwelling. How to organise degrowth-friendly small-scale housing?
Although sustainable housing is 'nothing new', examples of sustainable sub-urban houses in south-eastern and eastern Europe are rare.The presentation will show the project (and process) of re-making a conventional house into a sustainable one, keeping eco-footprint and cost low by sourcing materials locally, learning self-build skills, and testing new building ideas. Moreover, food and energy aspect of described project correspond with current escalation of energy crisis and environmental crisis. The presented project is based on permaculture principles and solutions, so on one level it can be seen as short compendium of permaculture thinking. However, since alternative housing in permaculture is dominantly placed in rural setting, sustainable self-build in urban zones (which are inhabited by majority of world population) is less developed.
Presentation is practically oriented, however on a theoretical side it will try to raise several important questions, such as: how to apply low-tech solutions in sub-urban housing for lower resource consumption, can we move typical permaculture project from a countryside closer to urban center, and how to integrate degrowth ideas and permaculture principles.

Info

Day: 2023-09-01
Start time: 17:15
Duration: 00:45
Room: ZV-8-5
Type: Non-academic Session
Theme: Resilience building through degrowth

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