Episode #29 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Sofia Greaves (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).
“Post-Growth Planning is in need of creative methods for collectively imagining new futures“. Reflecting on experiences with artists and arts-based methods in Thamesmead, London. Pondering on the question how art can be a form of research, of generating new narratives and stories, and a contribution to community-building. Working through tensions within artists and dangers of artwashing. Delving into recent projects moving from arts to engineering in Oslo and transdisciplinary research that integrates music, sounds, and painting, into environmental engineering. Uncovering the vortex of flow and creating an album of fluid motion that includes stories and experiences as data. Advocating for an emotional planning and the question how we might bring that kind of data into decision-making.
An earlier episode with Sofia Greaves (#16, from January 2023) is available at https://www.postgrowthplanning.com/podcast/becoming-a-post-growth-planner-16-sofia-greaves/
You might want to read or listen into the following works that are related to this episode:
- Greaves, S. (2024). Spatial Critiques of Growth. In J. Becker, J. N. Bergamo, A. Fortuny Sicart, S. Greaves, N. Keurhorst, J. Lloveras Gutiérrez, M. Pansera, B. Robra, E. Schramm, & B. Suárez Eiroa (Eds.), Critiques of growth: an introduction (pp. 74–92). Universidad de vigo. https://dx.doi.org/10.35869/CritiquesofGrowth%20
- Greaves, S. R., Pansera, M., & Lloveras, J. (2025). Practising post-normal science through art-science collaborations: Institutionalising new approaches to future-making at the Joint Research Centre. Futures, 174, 103696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103696
- Vortex project, Oslo Metropolitan University – https://www.sofiagreaves.online/vortex
- Research Exhibition | (Un)Affordable Housing (Bow Arts) – https://bowarts.org/event/research-exhibition-unaffordable-housing/
- Exhibition review with images: https://niamholiverreviews.substack.com/p/whose-utopia-is-it
- Critical Cartographies: Mapping Artists’ Experiences of (Un)Affordable Housing – https://www.sofiagreaves.online/bowarts
- Podcast – “Myths and Rituals: Art-Science, Sustainable Tech, and Degrowth” https://earthtoresearch.podbean.com/e/3/
- Arts Editorial for Degrowth Journal: https://www.degrowthjournal.org/volumes/2025-special-issue-arts/
This episode is also available on YouTube (channel: @postgrowthplan).