Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #23: Benedikt Schmid

Episode #24 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Anton Brokow-Loga (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). Reflecting on the interfaces between sustainability, post-growth, and democracy, early seeds of post-growth debates in Germany, experiences in local politics, growth coalitions and political images, political shifts in Europe and threats to democracy, but also education, engagement, and sources for future optimism. Arguing for politicizing the sustainability debate in spatial planning and identifying points of intervention.

Episode #23 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Benedikt Schmid (University of Freiburg, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). Talking about experience from working groups on post-growth geographies and alternative approaches to prosperity, the common good in housing and district development in Freiburg/Germany and beyond, making limits visible and navigable, the importance of adopting a critical perspective, to be courageous by engaging and questioning and the key of listening to wishes, potentials, and abilities.

Episode #22 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Jakub Rok (University of Warsaw, Poland). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

Episode #21 of “Becoming a Post-Growth Planner: Obstacles and Challenges to Changing Roles and Practices” with Dr Angelos Varvarousis (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

Episode #20 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Thomas Hartmann (TU Dortmund University, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

Episode #19 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Dick Magnusson (Linköping University, Sweden). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

Episode #18 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Antje Bruns (University of Trier, Germany). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

Episode #17 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Stephen Leitheiser (Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

Episode #16 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Sofia Greaves (Post-Growth InnovationLab, University of Vigo in Pontevedra). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

Episode #15 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Chandrima Mukhopadhyay (Coordinator AESOP Thematic Group Planning Theories and Practices for the Global South & East). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).