Last week of #CityMatters26 Urban Inequality & Social Justice has started @frw-rug.bsky.social @rug.nl . Lecture tomorrow and squatting role-play on Wednesday. Then: thoughtful student work awaits completion 💡🍀. Groups research justice all around Groningen, and induvidual projects building upon it.

To boldly plan... NEW: 'Navigating Post-Growth Planning: Leveraging complexity for being intentional and unintentional'. Connectiong complexity, post-growth, Luhmann, roles in planning. In Transaction of AESOP. Read: doi.org/10.24306/TrA... #postgrowthplanning #systemstheory #rolesinplanning

Social infrastructures as pillars of resistance against housing commodification in creative city Groningen - Bart Popken (@gssisocialsci.bsky.social) enriched us today in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' (Master SSP) at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). #housing #CityMatters26

🧭Urban Complex Futures: Critical Leverage Points. 💻Online series within AESOP Planning and Complexity on 21/10, 11/11, 02/12. Complex systems, sustainability, uncertainty, housing, futures, time/less planning, temporary use.🖌️Info: aesop-planning.eu/tg-news/plan... @frw-rug.bsky.social @rug.nl

🪧 Public space and the city. Why democrats should worry about urban public space. Verena Frick (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) today at @rug.nl for the Where is Urban Politics series by @frw-rug.bsky.social , University College & @facultyofphilosophygroningen.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy #CityMatters26

Post-growth and post-carbon futures in spatial planning? Questions between green political economy, social justice, and planning? @profjohnbarry.bsky.social visited us in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' at @frw-rug.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks! #CityMatters26 #postgrowthplanning

🏙️Lelystad - housing and urban development. 🫵 Planning is not easy, but worth it! Today with students of 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' (Master Society, Sustainability and Planning) from @frw-rug.bsky.social . Support by Centrada, INBO, NPLV Lelystad-Oost & others. #CityMatters26

Student work ahead! Eight groups start working on their empirical research projects in Groningen in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' at @frw-rug.bsky.social (Master Society, Sustainability & Planning). 🫶 If you see them, support them. #CityMatters26 #socialjustice

📆This month in Groningen & online: Where is Urban Politics Seminars. 1️⃣ Utopian Ideals & Concrete Utopias (15th) 2️⃣ Public space and the city. Why democrats should worry about urban public space. (30th) 🤓 Be there with us, sites.google.com/rug.nl/where... @frw-rug.bsky.social @rug.nl AESOP & others.

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Getting there again... 🌇 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' soon starting @frw-rug.bsky.social . 🤓Preliminary reading list is coming together. 🌱Yes, there's a lot more than reading - many applications and discussions coming up in Groningen & beyond. #CityMatters26

If not now, when...? 🌱 Becoming a post-growth planner. 📻 34 episodes, 37 key thinkers. Pondering on obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices in spatial planning & beyond. 💚 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... & podcast apps. #postgrowthplanning #postgrowth #podcast #rolesinplanning

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JProf @mattkranke.bsky.social was a guest on the podcast @postgrowthplan.bsky.social. Host Christian Lamker talked with him and Malcolm Campell-Verduyn about their research on post-growth and #growth infrastructures, and their special issue on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’. 🎧 t1p.de/nawfa

Post-Growth Planning@postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🛣️"You can't get beyond growth without really getting inside of it". Matthias Kranke (@college-uaruhr.bsky.social) & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (@rug.nl) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner' #33. 🛤️ Infrastructures & how to take socio-material relations seriously. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnLu...

Getting ready... Today at noon in Vancouver. Speaking about research @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) and connections to #postgrowthplanning

Published my last podcast interview this spring with Julia Grosinger (@icta-uab.bsky.social) in #34. Moving into rural areas, human needs, loved places, participatory methods. Always learning, loving this open format. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XF... (also Spotify, Apple, website) #postgrowthplanning

Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #34: Julia Grosinger

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Great podcast, great host – thanks to @raumplaner.bsky.social for moderating this podcast episode. Link 👇 Link to the special issue in @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...

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(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

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Post-Growth Planning@postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🛣️"You can't get beyond growth without really getting inside of it". Matthias Kranke (@college-uaruhr.bsky.social) & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (@rug.nl) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner' #33. 🛤️ Infrastructures & how to take socio-material relations seriously. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnLu...

🛣️Infrastructures and how to take socio-material relations (in #postgrowthplanning) seriously? Matthias Kranke (Duisburg-Essen) & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (Groningen) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner' #33. 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/7gcf... (also on YouTube & others) #podcast

Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

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From systems thinking in housing to the manifesto for housing in a post-growth world. Running through #postgrowthplanning with @annapagani.bsky.social in podcast episode #32 - 'a collective activity of mutual learning, informed by a systems approach' 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/1N1z...

Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #32: Anna Pagani

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Post-Growth Planning@postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌱 "We cannot think of any future if we do not think about housing". @annapagani.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) in #32 of 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner'. Systems thinking, housing justice, leverage points & manifesto as call to action and commitment. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YhQ...

🌎 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

Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #31: Alejandro del Castillo Sánchez

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Post-Growth Planning@postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🏖️🏙️ "It's completely possible" Doing, undoing, redoing in architecture and #postgrowthplanning. Alejandro del Castillo Sánchez (@nundo.bsky.social) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner', #31. Exploring scope & edges of (growth-based) architecture ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkI... & Spotify & website.

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...

Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #30: Anitra Nelson

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Anitra Nelson@anitranelson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On horizontalism and planning – www.postgrowthplanning.com/podcast/beco...

⁉️ "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

🌱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

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)

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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 Planning@postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🫂"How might we plan for more sharing and caring and commoning?" @anitranelson.bsky.social in Becoming a Post-Growth Planner. The degrowth movement, horizontalism, housing, tensions between degrowth and cities, and caring for relations between us and us an earth. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wue4...

🌱 "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...

Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #30: Anitra Nelson

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Post-Growth Planning@postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🫂"How might we plan for more sharing and caring and commoning?" @anitranelson.bsky.social in Becoming a Post-Growth Planner. The degrowth movement, horizontalism, housing, tensions between degrowth and cities, and caring for relations between us and us an earth. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wue4...

🐌 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

Sarah Ware: Feminist perspectives on post-growth planning

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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...

Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #29: Sofia Greaves

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Post-Growth Planning@postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎨"Post-Growth Planning is in need of creative methods for collectively imagining new futures". @sofiagreaves.bsky.social on arts-based methods, housing, community - and: stories, experiences, emotions, in environmental engineering? ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W7N... #postgrowthplanning #podcast

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_...

City of the Commons or City of Commodities? (Bart Popken)

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