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 DGI’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 Schedule:

9:00AM-10:00AM: Registration

10:00AM-10:30AM: Land Acknowledgment

10:30AM-11:30AM: Has the Economy Outgrown the Planet? (DGI Team)

11:45AM-1:00PM: Morning Block

• Ecological Economics 101 (Nina Smolyar & Jack Hammond)

• Communicating Degrowth (DGI Team)

• From Degrowth to Decolonization (Panel)

1:00PM-2:00PM: Lunch

• Lunch Activity: Haikus for Liberation (Zachary Czuprynski)

2:15PM-3:45PM: Afternoon Block

• Offers & Needs Market (Elise O’Malley)

• Debating Degrowth (DGI Team)

• Transition as Healing and Culture Change (Panel)

4:00PM-5:00PM: Why Degrowth Needs Relationality (Ronald Trosper)

(Workshops may be added, and dates/times are subject to change.)

On Saturday, will be at the DGI Office at 332 S. Michigan Avenue.