🌎 Extending the scope of 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner'. ❓How we change that big paradigm of architecture: building is growing, growing is welfare, and it's also progress and happiness. 🎯 Episode #31 at open.spotify.com/episode/0PEV... (also on other platforms) #postgrowthplanning #podcast

Thanks for joining the podcast @anitranelson.bsky.social 🌱. Becoming a Post-Growth Planner, episode 30. 🎙️ Also on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/3HeJ...

⁉️ "Citizens in urban futures, shaping post-growth planning together?" Invitation to join the talk and discusion in Vancouver (Canada) at Simon Fraser University on Fri 8 May. #postgrowthplanning #rolesinplanning

The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)

🌱It's growing! Three years & 11,600 views since "The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth" in @planningtheory.bsky.social (with Dan Durrant, Yvonne Rydin) 🛋️ doi.org/10.1080/1464... #postgrowthplanning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

🧭 Call for Papers: Complexity Unpacked: Analytical Tools & Practical Insights for Uncertain Futures. 🗓️ 8-9 Jan 2027, University of Nicosia (Cyprus). 24th Conference of the AESOP TG on Planning and Complexity. ⏰15 June 2026. See aesop-planning.eu/tg-news/plan... #AESOP #Complexity

Great, thanks @postgrowthplan.bsky.social for the lively discussion on postgrowth planning futures centred on #horizontalism and #degrowth

🌱 "Post-growth plannng is opening a debate and action on a social and material transformation to a more equitable and just relation between us and between us and earth". Thanks to @anitranelson.bsky.social for taking me (again) into your long experiences! 📻Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3HeJ...

Sarah Ware: Feminist perspectives on post-growth planning YouTube video by Post-Growth Planning

🐌 Slow down, scale out, work with. Feminist perspectives in post-growth planning. Guest lecture recording by @sware.bsky.social (CEU, Vienna) in #CriticalApproaches26 by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & myself in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social . ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGvL... #postgrowthplanning

Job alert! We're looking for an assistant professor in Spatial Planning and Design who has a PhD in the field of spatial design, spatial planning, geography, public administration, land and water management, with qualifications on spatial design. Deadline 3 April werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ass...

New episode of 'Becoming a post-growth planner' with @sofiagreaves.bsky.social . Looking back to what happened since our talk in 2023 (episode #16). And to what comes next in Oslo. "Spatial planning is in many ways generating problems for itself to solve, right?"📻 open.spotify.com/episode/6iRo...

City of the Commons or City of Commodities? (Bart Popken) YouTube video by Post-Growth Planning

City of the Commons or City of Commodities? ⁉️ How urban commons and social movements struggle for a radically democratic creative city in Groningen. Bart Popken (GSSI, Italy / @frw-rug.bsky.social) in the 'Where is Urban Politics?' series in Groningen (@rug.nl) 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=itg_...

"Verhängnisvoller politischer Fehler"

Bundespräsident Steinmeier kritisiert den Iran-Krieg als "völkerrechtswidrig" - und die Bundesregierung, die ihn nicht so nennt.

PhD positions! Healthy & Sustainable Urban Regions: Exploring Evidence-Based Planning Approaches

Inclusive, sustainable, & efficient accessibility: systematically evaluating and learning from smart initiatives

Youth Inclusion in Decision-Making for Climate-Responsive Cities. Info werkenbij.rug.nl

Interview: Institutional activism within the local state (Line Kvartborg Vestergaard) YouTube video by Post-Growth Planning

🏙️ 🙅‍♂️'Institutional activism within the local state: exploring ambitions for deep transformation in Amsterdam'. Line Kvartborg Vestergard in a short interview for #PlanningDynamics26 (by Ferry van Kann & me @frw-rug.bsky.social) about her paper with Benedikt Schmid. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8W9...

🌱 Glad having Sarah Ware (@sware.bsky.social) from CEU Vienna tuning in for the last session of #CriticalApproaches26 today at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). 💡On 'Feminist perspectives in post-growth planning'. An immense pleasure teaching the course, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social .

Almost finishing #CriticalApproaches26 connecting from sustainability to post-growth planning yesterday (Master course by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me at @frw-rug.bsky.social). 🌱 Last session tomorrow with Sarah Ware (Vienna) on feminist perspectives, and watching group projects!

'Models like heroes?' Felix Krawczyk from University of Kassel (@kasselinstitute.bsky.social) visited @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me yesterday in #CriticalApproaches26 at @frw-rug.bsky.social for making integrated assessment models ready for deep carbonisation & socio-economic transformation.

'How climate imaginaries (re)shape space' - this Tuesday, @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me had the privilege of having Juliana Gonçalves from TU Delft as a guest in #CriticalApproaches26 in Groningen at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). Visionary approaches, realities - and prefigurative politics.

🐌'Global Hinterlands and Regional Backyards: Values, Ethics, and Care for Earth’s community' - one of my favourite lecture weeks in #CriticalApproaches26 (in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social). 👍Thanks to curious, motivated, and motivating, Master students.

🎥Thanks to everyone for joining 'The Cost of Growth' yesterday in Groningen (@rug.nl, @frw-rug.bsky.social) with documentary producer Lena Hartog. 🌏 Organised by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & others, connected to #CriticalApproaches26

The Cost of Growth | Doc Screening + After-talk - Who owns the economy? - Who pays the price for the never-ending thirst for economic growth? - How are communities resisting?

Today in Groningen: 'The Cost of Growth | Doc Screening + After-talk' 📆 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac...
#CriticalApproaches26 @postgrowthplan.bsky.social @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social

⁉️'Is land take a public or private decision?' Luke Juday visited us from @tuwien.at (Austria) yesterday in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). ⚖️ Delving into the ongoing international comparative study of six regions and urban growth and property rights. 🌱 Good luck with next research steps!

'Dit wordt Groningen'. 💡Organising the physical environment with the coming Omgevingsvisie (Environmental Vision) for our region. 💬 Ron Lander (Province of Groningen) today in #PlanningDynamics26 by Ferry van Kann & me at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) to our 3rd year Bachelor's students.

Planetary boundaries in the real world - Ports & Global Maritime in #CriticalApproaches26 by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social &me at @frw-rug.bsky.social : 🌍A special pleasure welcoming Tanner Tuttle (@oneplanetport.bsky.social & alumni of #CriticalApproaches23) for presentation & open discussion!

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

#CriticalApproaches26

Food for thought in today's #CriticalApproaches26 lecture @frw-rug.bsky.social . 🤓Open for further answers, thoughts, questions, ... - please share, also for coming years of the great course, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social !

Prof Jan Stielike from Jade Hochschule Oldenburg visiting us today in #PlanningDynamics26 in Groningen at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) . Comparing spatial planning systems, jumping into current socio-spatial challenges, strengthening collaborations in our region. 💡Making futures better together!

Key thoughts for upcoming lectures in #CriticalApproaches26