Subject: New course: Cities Beyond Growth - Join us

Dear reader,

We invite you to enrol in Cities Beyond Growth, an online course that brings together critical urban scholarship and grassroots perspectives to explore how cities can move beyond the dominant paradigm of endless economic growth toward more just and sustainable futures.

The course kicks off on 8 October, and registration is still open.

You can sign up and enrol through our new learning platform and we hope you'll take part in this important conversation.

About the course

Cities Beyond Growth is a six-week online course (8 October– 18 November 2025) that explores how urban life can be reimagined through post-growth thinking — centering justice, care, and ecological sustainability over GDP growth.

The course will be available in English / Spanish /Czech

The course combines:

Self-paced learning on Moodle (videos, readings, interactive resources)
Weekly live masterclasses (Wednesdays, 15:30–17:00 CEST, recordings will be available after the live sessions) with scholars and practitioners working at the forefront of urban transformation

Programme:

8 Oct – Care & Democracy
15 Oct – Energy
22 Oct – Housing
29 Oct – Food
5 Nov – Urban Mobility
12 Nov – Democratic Technology

You will gain:

Practical tools to rethink and redesign urban systems beyond market logics
Insights into strategies linking grassroots innovation and institutional change
A deeper sense of what post-growth cities might look like, and how to help bring them into being

Please complete your registration now to secure your place.

Before the course begins, we’d like to get to know you a little better through three short activities:

Personalise your profile
Why are you interested in this course?
What do you hope to learn?

You’ll find these questions on the Cities Beyond Growth course once you enrol. They’ll help us create a more connected learning community from the start.

We look forward to seeing you all in the course and to our collective kick-off on 8 October.

In solidarity,

The Organisers
Commons Network • FUHEM • Institute for Political Ecology (IPE) • NaZemi • Oikos • Transnational Institute

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Subject: New course: Cities Beyond Growth - Join us

The course combines: