Post Growth Ripples: June 2024
Here at the Post Growth Institute, we collaboratively develop ideas, programs, events, and alliances that promote the equitable circulation of money, power, and natural resources in our local communities and global economy. Each month we publish an overview of our key activities and impact through the various pillars of our work.
Post-Growth Events
Our Post Growth Fellows have been busy hosting events and preparing for future ones!
- Congrats to Ekin Al, who, along with Post Growth Affiliate Fellow, Erinch Sahan, hosted a Business Transformation Workshop at Onarım Atölyesi | Regenerative Impact Space as part of IPEC 2024: The First International Prosumer Economy Conference — which was co-organised by another Post Growth Fellow, Uygar Özesmi! More info and photos here; with videos from the conference to be shared on YouTube soon.
- Meanwhile, Ishaan Aggarwal was part of the team behind an inspiring conversation between Bayo Akomolafe, Senior Global Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute, and sociologist and environmentalist Ashish Kothari, who together reflected on pluriverses and the limits to the democratic project. As Ishaan wrote on LinkedIn: “The political project has to radically change to be anything meaningful. What comes after nations, after democracy, after the cacophony of battles won & lost, is perhaps a mystery. But it’s one we begin to piece together now.” Watch the recording here.
- Thaís Lopes took part in a panel discussion on Entrepreneurship, Career and Motherhood in São Paulo. Portuguese speakers can watch the excerpt here.
- Congratulations to Caroline Sinders on their appointment as an inaugural fellow with BRAID UK, working on a project focusing on how artists and creatives make with AI and what kinds of tools they need, in collaboration with Becca Ricks of the Mozilla Foundation. More here.
- Congrats, too, to Rendy Aditya Wachid, who has just joined as a Member of the Board of Advisors at OceanKita, an innovative zero-waste project that collects and re-processes ocean debris. More here.
- This September, the decolonial design and research think tank Pause and Effect, co-founded by Sabrina Meherally, is hosting a five-week learning experience called Reimagining Research. If you’d like to stretch your imagination beyond colonial paradigms & constructions of research and take your learning to a whole new level, sign up now and get a 20% early bird discount using the coupon code “PAUSE20”. Find out more and register.
The PGI also had a chance to join the New Economy Coalition’s delegation to the Rising Majority Movement Congress in St. Louis, Missouri. Over 200 organizations gathered to learn and share collective visions on how to build a united, democratic, leftist movement for 2050. dani leonardo, PGI’s Director of Equity, reflects:
In addition to getting time to connect and network in person amongst the New Economy Coalition delegation, we had an opportunity to discuss the proposed strategy put forth by Rising Majority and it’s alignment with our own work in the Solidarity Economy space. The Rising Majority Congress guidebook says, “We are defining an economy as all the processes that provide for planetary and human needs.” The NEC crew reflected on, and explored attuned ways of advocating for, the presence of a Solidarity Economy framework in the 10-year strategy and the discourse at the event.
It was a challenging, inspiring, and meaningful event, and I feel honored to have had a chance to be a part of it.
On the other side of the nation, Farzin Farzad (PGI Board Member), witnessed a mini Offers & Needs Market (OANM) happen at the Right Use of Power Institute’s (RUPI) retreat in New Mexico. Senior leadership at RUPI participated in the last cohort of OANM training — we’re continually inspired by the ways this community-building model is being applied.
Post-Growth Stories
For the first piece of content from the 2024 Post Growth Fellowship, Tannur Ali shared a beautiful poem called ‘Planting Seeds’, reflecting on her incredible work at the intersection of farming and building solidarity in a new economy. Tannur is the founder of iLOGIC (Institute for the Love of Genius in Community), which supports the holistic growth and development of African American homesteaders reclaiming their relationships with the land in the 21st century. Read the full poem and learn more about iLOGIC’s Homestead Incubation Program.
Meanwhile, our Director of Communications, Priscilla Trịnh, made an appearance on The Great Simplification podcast hosted by Nate Hagens. The episode centered on how young adults are navigating current world predicaments. Priscilla highlighted the many aspects of post-growth culture that support her journey, including asset-based communication, relational governance, and embodied leadership.
