A Manifesto for (De)growth. Disruptive (De)Growth Repository of Southern Ecosystems

Abstract

Hunguta formed after the open call for the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale, taking the Xitsonga word for ‘decrease’ as its name. The multidisciplinary collective engages with degrowth practices in the context of the Global South. The project in Sub-Saharan Africa - developed through months and in dialogue with local communities -, was transformed into an atlas exhibited in Oslo in 2019. Through images, diagrams, and photographs, the collective both tests and challenges degrowth principles in a manifesto on the dynamic repository of southern ecosystems. In doing so, the atlas questions the absolute viability and application of degrowth principles in territories subjected to exploitation and ‘slow growth’ over decades - if not centuries.

Keywords

• colonialism
• collaboration
• sub-saharan africa project
• degrowth