Why this website

This website is exploring an improvisational architectural method that regenerates buildings, landscapes, and community through care, repair, and maintenance. This site is an exploration of design projects from the local community. The idea is to critically document design interventions that relate to degrowth design practice. It’s hoped that this website serves as a resource for both the local and broader community.

About degrowth

The word degrowth first emerged from a translation of the French word décroissance as used in Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s 1972 essay Demain la décroissance: Entropie – Écologie – Économie (Tomorrow Degrowth: Entropy – Ecology – Economy).

However, since the 1972 essay and the publication of the Limits to Growth report, Degrowth, through a multitude of contributors, has worked toward an ethico-political theory that tackles our contemporary ecological crisis in way that is equitable and socially just ¹

Put simply is:

‘A planned downscaling of energy and resource use to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a safe, just, and equitable way’. —Jason Hickel.²

About this website

You are viewing a static website, self-hosted by me in my home in Melbourne, Australia. The server is a low power raspberry pi 4 with a small battery pack. This website has been optimised to keep file sizes very small to allow the server to operate with minimal resources and thus low power consumption. True to the core of the degrowth message, this website is about communicating useful information in a way that is sufficient and and without the excess. As such, posts rely on black and white illustrations, or dithered images. To read more about this website, visit this post about why it was created this way.

Degrow the internet!