On November 13, Steunpunt Energietransitie Nijmegen organized the event ‘The Rediscovery of Community.’ As part of the program, Professor Tine De Moor gave a lecture in which she outlined what a “commons” society, one with a major role for communities, could look like. Do citizen collectives embody degrowth or postgrowth as a serious alternative to consumer capitalism and the neoliberal dynamics of our time?

Systemic change cannot be achieved through technology alone. You also need a different institutional logic.