Degrowth is often imagined as a call to reduce current society’s throughput, a political slogan, or a programmatic horizon comprising policy roadmaps, models of how the global economy can function otherwise, and analyses of the politics that can bring us there. Much of its language therefore lives in the future tense. Yet degrowth is not an abstract idea, a future potential. It is a very real material, spatial, and social condition, one that exists in the present.

Real Existing Degrowth is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Autonomous University of Barcelona within the context of the ERC-funded project “REAL – A Post Growth Deal.”

Real Existing Degrowth was supported and has received funding from the European Research Council REAL under the European Union’s — ERC-2022-SYG REAL Reference Number 101071647.

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7 essays
Now more than ever, as authoritarianism and ecological crises threaten to engulf the planet, a luddite revival must be considered: a going dark in manifold ways and meanings.
Angelos Varvarousis and Marula Tsagkari
When one leaves behind the metropolitan glitter of Mykonos and moves east, it soon becomes clear that one is entering another world.
Donatella Gasparro
As our lives become ever more computed, and every bit of both reality and virtuality is pushed into commodification and sold at inflated market prices, some forgotten corners of Europe’s post-industrialscapes keep on eluding statistics.
Angelos Varvarousis, Giorgos Kallis, and e-flux Architecture
Real Existing Degrowth is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Autonomous University of Barcelona within the context of the ERC-funded project “REAL – A Post Growth Deal.”
Category
Economy, Land & territory
Subject
Architecture, Community, Geography

Real Existing Degrowth is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Autonomous University of Barcelona within the context of the ERC-funded project “REAL – A Post Growth Deal.”

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