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Join us for the second in a series of seminars engaging with the concept of degrowth. Anitra Nelson and Vincent Liegey (2025) define degrowth as “an invitation to embrace emancipation, to creatively explore new ways of living based on social and ecological values, and to establish decommodified economic systems embedded and maintained within deliberative and direct democracies.”
These sessions are open to anyone curious about alternative futures.
This month we are joined by Dr Federico Savini from the University of Amsterdam.
Degrowth has become a buzzword in environmental economics. It is also very contested by mainstream politics. The lecture will explain the multiple potentials and limits of degrowth in the context of cities and urban politics. What does degrowth means for planning, architecture, design and engineering? What are the spatial politics of degrowth? The presentation will provide a concise answer to these questions and open a debate on the political challenges of rethinking cities in a truly sustainable and just way.
This event is co-organised by the Net Zero Centre and the UCL Bartlett School of Planning Post-growth Planning cluster.
Speaker Bio: Federico Savini is an Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, Institutions and Politics at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), co-editor of Post-Growth Planning: Cities beyond the Market Economy (2022), and founder and scientific coordinator of the Postgrowth City Coalition, the international research network on post-growth urbanisation
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact the Net Zero Centre team at netzero@kcl.ac.uk.
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Net Zero Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
The Net Zero Interdisciplinary Seminar Series is the flagship seminar series for King’s College London’s Net Zero Centre, providing a platform for cross-pollination between academia, industry and government to develop novel research projects to achieve Net Zero.
Every month, we host a speaker to discuss a new research idea and seek contributions from audience members on a proposed challenge. A half-hour talk is followed by a discussion, and we encourage speakers to engage with colleagues on research related to our four priority areas, decarbonisation, sustainable manufacturing, equitable resource allocation and resilient infrastructure.
About us
The Net Zero Centre at King's is dedicated to addressing the challenges of decarbonising our society and reducing the environmental impact of our manufacturing, infrastructure, and cities. It serves as hub for scientific, technological and engineering research geared towards this challenge.
Based in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences (NMES), the Centre works across the boundaries of disciplines at King’s from geography and business to law and social science to deliver solutions for sustainable development. The Centre fosters the next generation of King’s change-makers by educating scientists and engineers on the holistic context of these challenges and developing technologically aware social scientists, lawyers, and policy makers.
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