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 focused on answering these questions, and ensuring everyone attending DeSchool gains a solid understanding of the degrowth movement.

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

Saturday’s Schedule:

8:30AM-9:45AM: Registration & Check-in; light breakfast available at DGI

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

10:30AM-11:30AM: Challenge to Growth 101: Has the Economy Outgrown the Planet? (DGI Team)

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

• Ecological Economics 101 (Jack Hammond)

• Communicating Degrowth in North America (Jason Barahona Rosales, Tim Linaberry, Fanny Rabinovitch-Kuzmicki, Emilia Reyes)

• From Degrowth to Decolonization (Mariam Abazeri, Diego Arispe-Bazán, Ashley Lagrange, Jennifer Trujillo Obando)

1:00PM-2:00PM: Lunch

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

• Debating Degrowth (Otis Pitney)

• Social Change Through Cultural Transformation (Andras Ferencz, Heather Higinbotham, Aaron Karp)

• Offers and Needs Market (Elise O'Malley)

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

6:00PM-9:00PM: Dinner & Happy Hour at The Plant

Dates/times may be subject to change.