Post Growth Innovation

Mario Pansera is Director of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab and OPORTUNIUS Research Professor at the University of Vigo.Javier Lloveras is Co-director of the Post-Growth Innovation Lab. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vigo.

• Introduction: What Do You Believe? A Miracle of Technology or Politics?1. The Growth Delusion: How Innovation Fuels Our Path to Disaster2. What’s Wrong With Innovation and Why It Matters for a Post Growth Society3. Caring and Maintaining4. Organizations and Institutions for Post Growth5. The Infrastructural Conditions of Post Growth6. What Does It Mean Today to Democratize Technology?Coda: Why Did We Stop Making Experiments?

“A compelling combination of unflinching analysis into the technology delusions generating so much damage in society with a lucid account of why democratizing innovation is vital for human and ecological flourishing.” Adrian Smith, Professor of Technology and Society, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex