Course Schedule
Veranstaltungen von Sara Elsa Maj Dahlman
Lehrveranstaltungen
PoE: Degrowth by Design: Rethinking Digital Innovation (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Sara Elsa Maj Dahlman
Termin:
14-täglich | Mittwoch | 14:15 - 17:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 40.220 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Can entrepreneurship thrive without endless growth? This course challenges conventional assumptions about innovation, technology, and success in the digital age. As the limits of our planet increasingly collide with the imperatives of growth, we turn to degrowth, an emerging framework that prioritizes ecological sustainability, social justice, and human wellbeing over profit and optimization, and ask what it means to design digital technology from this starting point. Students will critically examine the environmental and social contradictions of digitalization, while exploring concrete alternatives: convivial technologies, platform cooperatives, digital commons, and social justice approaches to innovation. Through lectures, discussions, and hands-on workshops, we develop both the critical vocabulary and the practical tools to reimagine digital technologies that operate within ecological limits and create genuine social value. Alongside the theoretical work, students will move through a guided redesign process across the course. Working in small teams, you will select an existing digital technology, assess it against the values and frameworks introduced in the course, and produce a redesign proposal grounded in one of four design orientations: digital commons, platform cooperativism, digital degrowth, or design justice. The goal is not a market-ready product but a critically grounded proposal — one that asks what entrepreneurial success could look like when growth and profit is no longer the measure of it.