Strategic planning for degrowth: synergy, regions, and the doughnut of Amsterdam
The Bartlett School of Planning’s Post-growth Research Cluster have organised this event which is open to the public. Chaired by Prof Yvonne Rydin and Dr Dan Durrant.
Strategic planning for degrowth: synergy, regions, and the doughnut of Amsterdam
25 Oct 2024, 13:00 – 14:00
Post-growth research is a cutting-edge area of planning studies, which the BSP is leading on. We urgently need alternatives to growth, because there are environmental limits to growth and planetary ecologies are breaking down. This event will showcase new thinking on ‘de-growth’ with an informative and interactive session.
Dr Federico Savini will give a 45 minute Public Lecture, which draws on his ‘de-growth’ research in Amsterdam. His work looks at de-growth, considers material elements of cities such as construction, food, and heat, and asks how planning regulations can contribute to the important post-growth agenda.
Participants can learn more about de-growth research, and join in with BSP researchers in the chance for questions and discussion with the leading researchers in this field.
Pre booking is not essential for this event.
Federico Savini
Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, Institutions and Politics
University of Amsterdam
He combines approaches of political sociology, urban planning and critical geography to the study of institutions and socio-spatial change in cities. In his work, he studies the politics that drive institutional change, focusing on the different sets of regulations that shape the working of city-regions and their ecological impact on the planet. With his expertise on the study of regulatory frameworks and institutional dynamics, he grasps the pathways towards a form of urbanization that thrives within planetary boundaries. He uses a degrowth perspective on spatial planning and is currently coordinating an international ERC-funded project on urbanization, degrowth and the circular economy. This looks at the regulations that shape the metabolism of cities. The project focuses on three material streams: construction, food, and heat, studying how regulations are contested, defended, and negotiated by practices that downscale the urban metabolism.He is founder and coordinator of the Postgrowth Cities Coalition, coordinator and curator of the Masterstudio Future Cities and co-initiator and advisor of the social-housing cooperative de Nieuwe Meent in Amsterdam