Activities for Principle#8

Level of complexity: Low / Medium

Estimated time: 2—3 hours

• Host a degrowth improvisation theatre where participants act out spontaneous degrowth scenarios.
• Set the scene and the situation where degrowth scenarios can be played out. 
• Add different twists (e.g., water scarcity, a political shift) as the stories progress and record different responses from participants.
• Debriefing questions
• What dynamics or conflicts emerged?
• Which ideas and responses came up?

Level of complexity: High

Estimated time: 3—4 hours

• Participants visualize systems to illustrate systems like food, education, or energy, and their impacts and implications (social, economic, ecological, political, etc.).
• They experiment with degrowth interventions (e.g., degrowth policies) at different points in the system and note down the impacts and implications.
• They explore diverse possibilities, challenges, opportunities, and weaknesses of these degrowth interventions, pointing out the interconnections that emerged and the leverage points.
• They may use creative mediums to illustrate these systems (e.g., magazines, drawings, printouts).