Degrowth, Energy Sobriety, Low-Tech: Towards an Architecture of Conviviality

[July 2024]

A built environment is a physical reification of fictions we mistake for certitudes, and our built environments index our belief in economic growth. Culturally, we are attuned to economic costs; we have been trained, simultaneously, not to see or feel energy costs. Yet the built environment does not only reflect our values, gestures, and behaviors. It (re)produces them. New forms and practices of dwelling can thereby, over time, help to transform our most deep-seated perspectives.

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