Toulouse https://www.decroissance-poc.org/Journee-de-reflexion-le-15-dec The ideas of housing for degrowth will be presented in Toulouse on the 15th december (in french) Notre prochaine journée de réflexion aura lieu le samedi 15 décembre
Munich The lecture by Anitra Nelson to the architect, engineering, humanities and social science students organised by architect-lecturers Jana and Werner at the Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich went well and
Barcelona On the 25th we had a talk on housing for degrowth at Can Masdeu, a mythic squat in Barcelona. It was the occasion to bring the link between housing for degrowth and gender,
Portbou 20 participants in the small village of Portbou! Thanks to the great work of Natalia and Swen of the Simmelian association. Interdisciplinarity, a guiding idea of Simmel, is key for housing and urbanism
Cerbère Back to Can Decreix full of flower. The iddylic weather made it perfect to cook chick peas on the solar ovens. Less perfect is the recent pollution of the coast by tarballs, there
Rome We arrived in Rome, the place of so many informal initiatives in the sector of housing. We had two event. One at Puzzle, an occupied social center. This talk was part of the
Torino Suposedly the largest european pedestrian street is in TorinoWhere we had the talk at mid day at Politecnico di Torino in the castell of ValentinoKarl, the organiser and author in our book, introduced
Zurich It was amazing to meet Hans Widmer, the author of Bolo Bolo, in Zurich, as well many other inspiring publications, and initiator of many large housing project with the association Neustart Schweiz. Hans
Wien Anitra went to the growth in transition conference, she could present important critics of growth within this event. She talked in a session on the tension between investment on green or brown energy.
Venezia Venezia is a living utopia. An enormous pedestrian city, a city fundamentally made for humans. A place where meet in the street, where many associations are active, where you experience the calm and
Trieste We are heading to the event in this city full of empty buildings... All these buildings protected by barbed wires are empty for years. How many non-profit associations could have their office there.
Ljubljana On our way to Ljubljana, we are sharing with new "roomates" this nice little flat that we "rent" from the austrian train company ÖBB. This kind of compartments create a very nice convivial
Brno Busy day at Brno. I picked delicious local apples in the morning (not the untasty ones you find in supermarkets). At 14:00 we gave a course at Brno university on housing for
By train from Hungary to Czech Republic What else do you need? Really nice train ride from Budapest to Brno. The train is just perfect, confortable, with tables, electricity access, and with an accessible prices for all. You have a
Budapest Anitra, Vincent and Logan at the talk at Kelet Cafe The Budapest conference on degrowth was where we started to plan for the book housing for degrowth. More than 80 people joined
From Poland to Hungary by night train With night trains, we have the impression in Poland to finally arrive in a civilized country. Germany made us travel by night buses from Berlin to Warsaw, it is still better than travelling
Warszawa We had a very good discussion on ‘Housing for Degrowth—A Different Plan for Urbanisation’ at Cafe Kryzys inside the squat Syrena, an bubbling activists' venue in Warsaw. We could also convivially eat
By night bus from Germany to Poland No more night train from Berlin to Warschau, we have to take a night bus. Trying to sleep in the bus... i was happy there was not many passengers and i could try
Berlin More than 130 people managed to enter in the bar Crack Bellmer, at the RAW. This event was part of the Experiment Days. We very nicely recycled an unused urban space: a trendy
Leipzig Well i was ... sick. I can tell about the great flat-sharing place, and the great hospitality... Lina Hurlin from the Mietshauser Syndicat Nina Treu from Konzeptwerkin front of a good audience
Wuppertal Very interested discussions about the link between Degrowth and sufficiency at the Wuppertal institute. Degrowth has been adopted as an important concept to consider by this well-known research institute that invited us for
Delft At Delft the paradise of bicycles, we had a presentation with 30 students and professors of architecture at the Delft Technical University. Some researchers, involved with co-housing, explained us about governmental policies to
Den Haag In my birth town, dinner intervention on housing for degrowth and food in the Conscious Kitchen event "good Food Good Farming" at the Gymzaal Witte de Withstraat with 80 participants. I presented the
Lyon La Décroissance - on degrowth since 2004 with 40000 exemplars every monthGuillaume interviewed us for the journal Silence, a small ecological magazine that made the first special issue on degrowth in 2002The center
Barcelona Meeting with Anitra. Finally i decided to take my bicycle, and it was a very good idea to carry all the books!! I gave two courses at the master of political ecology and