Policy, practice and culture
The Wellbeing Economy Ireland Hub and our partners in Cork and across the island of Ireland are delighted to be hosting the 2027 International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity.
We have been working alongside scholars, policy makers and some of the island’s most celebrated musicians and artists to build a popular movement in celebration of new socio-ecological imaginaries, including those that can tap into the island’s unique blend of European and post-colonial histories. The Conference will help accelerate the decolonial momentum of the just transition, celebrating diverse, pluriversal voices from around the world, and turning a critical eye on the extractivist aspects of the economies of both Northern Ireland and the Republic.
The Conference base in Cork is home to a wide range of practitioners, activists, scholars and artists working on the economic transition, making it a great location for a celebration of emergent community- and movement-led experiments that aim to seed a new future today.
In the course of 2027 there will also be satellite gatherings in Covilha, Portugal, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and a fourth event is pending.
More information is here, and we’ll update this page as the conference plans evolve.
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