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The emergence of a post-growth society is intimately tied to bottom-up community activities that engage with critical questions about desirable, just, and sustainable futures. Effective use of space to exchange ideas, and explore and experience alternative futures can aid in the prefigurative process of transformation. When public institutions, practitioners, researchers, and cultural workers activate space into convivial learning environments through transdisciplinary real-world experimentation, these can catalyse the collective imagination, host democratic debates about the future, and share local knowledge to impact change and root transformations in place. This work compares three convivial space cases in Europe to gauge their prefigurative power and impact across scales. The R-Urban AgroCité hub (Paris), Foodpark Amsterdam (Netherlands), and the SDG+ Lab (Kassel, Germany) are examples of community-driven initiatives prototyping situated transformative practices. We compare the starting conditions, process itself, the transformative approaches, or strategies employed, and how these prefigure post-growth futures. Interviews with team members from each initiative are used to ground online documentation and literature review. We discuss the (micro/meso-level) politics involved, reflecting on lessons for achieving post-growth futures.

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Prefigurative Politics of Post-growth Futures in the Making: Learning from Transformative Practices that Leverage (Temporary) Convivial Space

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    2026年

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  • Steven R. McGreevy,
  • Corelia Baibarac-Duignan,
  • Maximilian Spiegelberg

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The emergence of a post-growth society is intimately tied to bottom-up community activities that engage with critical questions about desirable, just, and sustainable futures. Effective use of space to exchange ideas, and explore and experience alternative futures can aid in the prefigurative process of transformation. When public institutions, practitioners, researchers, and cultural workers activate space into convivial learning environments through transdisciplinary real-world experimentation, these can catalyse the collective imagination, host democratic debates about the future, and share local knowledge to impact change and root transformations in place. This work compares three convivial space cases in Europe to gauge their prefigurative power and impact across scales. The R-Urban AgroCité hub (Paris), Foodpark Amsterdam (Netherlands), and the SDG+ Lab (Kassel, Germany) are examples of community-driven initiatives prototyping situated transformative practices. We compare the starting conditions, process itself, the transformative approaches, or strategies employed, and how these prefigure post-growth futures. Interviews with team members from each initiative are used to ground online documentation and literature review. We discuss the (micro/meso-level) politics involved, reflecting on lessons for achieving post-growth futures.