Post-Growth Planning

Collective for leading common spaces beyond growth

Author: Christian Lamker & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff

Collective for leading common spaces beyond growth. #postgrowthplanning - A planning in which growth is neither a necessary starting point nor a goal that must be achieved. One that does work on change, but not on growth. One that works on quality of life, but not with more of the same growth solutions. One in which planners engage and motivate.
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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #28: Christian Schulz
Monday, 12 January, 2026

Episode #28 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Prof Dr Christian Schulz (University of Luxembourg). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). "Within the discipline, there is something going in…". Reflecting on a decade of post-growth thinking in economic geography and spatial planning. Following diverse understandings and misunderstandings and post-growth practices in central Europe. Focusing on horizontal replication, learning, and regional perspectives. Understanding the importance of the social dimension in a post-growth transformation. Taking up the democratic idea and democratic challenge, e.g., towards critical thinking regarding housing policies and questions of land and land ownership. Identifying future hope in young scholars, students, and growing engagement in the discipline. Utilising experience from own research projects and two research-practice working groups on post-growth geographies and well-being.