Notices by Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design), page 3

Day 2 - Plenary 1
Olivia Lazard
'International and planetary security are not aligned'

'We need partnership with countries that we see as fragile, the future need to be co-designed with them whether it will lead to growth or degrowth'

OMG her speech has been incredible!

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Question from the audience: 'technosolutionism complexifies things' and calling out the cost of digitalisation

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Day 2 - Plenary 1
Virginijus Sinkevicius
'Our linear economy model is not leading us anywhere'
He is also the first talking about ecodesign paradigm, which - as a designer - I am sceptical really a lot, but some ideas like a design passport for products are interesting and worth to be explored more in depth

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@timparrique 'sufficiency can also be interpreted as 'just having enough'

I digress here pointing that the French word 'sobriété ', if anyhow related to the Italian 'sobrietà' than I think implies some cultural aspects that are lost in the word 'sufficiency'.

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Day 2 - Plenary 1
Virginijus Sinkevicius
He acknowledges what they've done so far but there is an urgent need to do more, but they need a new language to talk to all their stakeholders and have them on board.
He also acknowledges how the risk of the reverse is very high

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Day 2 - Plenary 1
@timparrique starts debunking the Green Growth myth calling Metsola's opening speech out

'The idea of growth completely decoupled from nature is a fairy tale'

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Day 2 - Plenary 1
@timparrique
'Green Growth has never been achieved anywhere and I have never seen any convincing evidence that it can happen'

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Day 2 - Plenary 1
Just ended with a serious political call for EU parties to take action.
Here my very personal sum up:

- Sufficiency is a powerful and necessary concept, but need to be focused on policies that enable individuals, not left on individual change alone
- The only way to make growth green is to take away growth
- Business can be sustainable, but not in this economic model

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- not taking into consideration hegemonies of supply chains and geopolitical demand will only undermine any change
- the great arbiters of the new geopolitical orders are the countries deemed as 'fragile', and if we really want a fair green transition, we must partnering with, listen to and bring them to the decisional table.
- the current international reality is going towards totalitarianism and more extraction

See you later in the focus panels.

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Welcome back. I'll be following Panel 10 which is focus on digitalisation and tech in the context of degrowth and post-growth.
For those who already follow me, I am extremely critical on #TechHypes, #AI and #TechEvangelist (having been part of tjhe #MakerMovement taught me a lot).
So I am very curious but also worried about this panel.

If you are following other panels and wants to live-blog, remember you can contribute to this thread.

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Day 2 - Plenary 1
@timparrique

'When GDP goes up, nature goes down: the real question is which one do you really wanna save?'

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen
'Tech industry today reinforce the current extractivist economy'

'Our lives are mostly organised around few [digital] companies'

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen
'The digital realm is undoing the rights of labour'

'The Cloud is not in the clouds. Data centers consumes 3% of the world electricity' while 'planned obsolescence generate growing waste'

'Tech industry also reproduce colonialist dynamics both in terms of material extraction and in terms of data extraction'

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen
It's kind of #meta (sorry not sorry for the pun) that she is talking about open source and interoperability platform and live-blogging it on the #fediverse

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen concludes with a call for a dialogue between the degrowth/post-growth crowd and the open-source crowd
(my first reaction is: good luck with that...🙃, but I'm sure a lot of you will prove me wrong)

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Corina Schlombs gives us an history overview on the birth of 'Economic Growth' in the US and how it was exported to Europe

EU market integration was very convenient as it was overcoming local/national fragmentation

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Corina Schlombs
'Welfare Capitalism: the idea that companies voluntarily offer and pay for the labour wellbeing in exchange for labour refraining to unionise'
a very common strategy in tech companies, historically and today

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Corina Schlombs
'Taking tech in the context of a post-growth economies we need to be very clear on what labour relationship these companies have been establishing'

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Rodrigo Fernandez

'The focus on providing public alternative is essential but this is not hard technically, but it's difficult on a policy level'

'The EU is at fault for following a neoliberal mindset that enables these monopolies to grow'

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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Corina Schlombs
'Policies allowed for certain labour relationship to happen, so the EU needs to think how policies will be affecting and enabling future labour relationship'

She brings up the paternalistic narrative of 'company as family', which is interesting to me as North American scholars are often patronising the south for their societies being more founded on family ties than on casual mutual interest relationships.

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