DeSchool 2025

What is degrowth? Why is challenging economic growth so essential to the sustainability movement, and what challenges have been made so far?

DeSchool 2025 will kick off with a day of workshops and presentations at Degrowth Institute’s office, focused on answering these questions, and ensuring everyone attending DeSchool gains a solid understanding of what the degrowth movement is all about.

Saturday’s events will be held at the DGI Office at 332 S. Michigan Avenue.

Now that we’re all familiar with the challenge to growth, what does it really mean to intentionally downscale the global economy?

What are the implications of degrowth for the sustainability movement, for technology, for urban planning, food systems, modes of production, community, and culture? How does the degrowth movement weave into other movements in North America for environmental justice, just transition and decolonization?

For the second day of DeSchool 2025, we will be at the historic South Shore Cultural Center (SSCC).

While a great deal of degrowth discussion happens in academic circles, degrowth is first and foremost a social movement. What does degrowth look like in action? How do we organize, advocate and agitate for a downscaling of the global economy?

For our final full day of DeSchool programming, we’ll be at the beautiful South Shore Cultural Center (SSCC) again.

Where do we go from here? What did we discover this weekend, and how do we integrate the lessons, wisdom, projects and people from across the degrowth world into a stronger, more empowered movement?

To close out DeSchool 2025, we invite those who want to strategize the future of the degrowth movement along with DGI to join us at the DGI office for a closing workshop on strategic planning and movement-buiding.