Digital Event Sustainable Development

The Sustainable Development Goals are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere. The 17 Goals were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which set out a 15-year plan to achieve the Goals. In this seminar we explore how we can become a more sustainable circus sector and the many facets sustainability take.

Facilitated by Antonia Kuzmanić and Jere Kuzmanić, the discussion zooms in on the concept of degrowth, as a measure of human and economic development, alternative to neo-liberal understandings of growth.  What can growth look like, when we don't imagine it as a constant scaling up? How are methods and practices of circus fit to implement degrowth as a model?

We look at the possibility of imagining a degrowth-inspired circus practices on various scales and…