Friday 7.25.25 | 6:00-9:00PM

If you’re already in Chicago on Friday night, feel free to join the DGI team for some informal bonding and local craft beer tasting at the Whiner Beer Co. Taproom at The Plant. This is not part of DeSchool, so don’t worry if you can’t make it, just an open invitation to our community to hang out!

Saturday 7.26.25 | 9:00AM-4:30PM

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 what the degrowth movement is all about.

Location TBA

Sunday 7.27.25 | 10:00AM-4:30PM

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, production, politics and culture?

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

Monday 7.28.25 | 10:00AM-4:30PM

What does the degrowth movement look like in action? How does degrowth weave into other movements for environmental justice, just transition and decolonization?

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

Tuesday 7.29.25 | 10:00AM-2:30PM

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 discussion on what we learned this weekend, and what comes next.