A public online presentation of works of the
artistic and applied theory workshop Rat Race, Snail Pace - Challenging the growth imperative - a collaboration of Ecological
Economics (WU Vienna) and Social Design (University of Applied Arts Vienna).
What is economic
growth and productivity? How is it related to resource and energy use, human well-being and social stability? What role can
artistic strategies play to challenge the growth imperative? How can methods of art and media be used to trigger public involvement
in the growth discourse? How can marketing strategies be instrumentalized for a critique of economic growth?
Based
on these questions, the workshop Rat Race, Snail Pace aims to develop diverse strategies to challenge the global growth imperative
by interdisciplinary collaboration between students from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University
of Applied Arts Vienna.
The public presentation of the results of the workshop will be held online here:
The
workshop is part of a deeper involvement of both departments in the subject of Degrowth, accompanying the co-organisation
of the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020 - Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation and an upcoming exhibition on the
topic.
With Ernest Aigner, Martin Färber, Oliver Hangl, Halliki Kreinin and Nina Pohler.
