04-Post-Growth — Polymundi

POST-GROWTH

‘THERE IS NO GROWTH ON A DEAD PLANET’ Tim Jackson

Post-growth is a term heard often. It is usually in solidarity with degrowth. An important aspect of both movements and visions is that there is a limit to growth. There are limits to how much we can grow, extract, throw away. There are limits to reckless blind growth, and in response we have been seeing a number of new indicators being used that go beyond measuring just GDP. We now measure happiness,wellbeing, heath etc. (see the better life index, the index of sustainable economic welfare, the genuine progress indicator).

Shifting towards a care economics that benefits livelihoods, life, and life worlds. Perhaps the most important aim with ‘Polymundi’ is to play and find the answer to: what does it mean to live well? It is a game where we are world building, creating different scenarios for a post-growth city. In fact, it is a game where we are creating a renewed narrative for our own and the planet’s wellbeing.

It of course brings us to ask – What is wellbeing? Well, wellbeing is about staying healthy, about attaining good balance, about forming connections, creating meaning and having purpose in our lives. It is about aspiring to ‘the good life’. Polymundi extends the good life to include the symbiosis of living together with other organisms, human and non-human.

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