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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wait, there are limits...? 🌱 How students engage with #postgrowthplanning. Titles from pre-class assignments within 'EIP: Interactive Workshop' in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social . Developing critical argumentation, discussion, writing, and presentation skills. This year including #postgrowth.

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Last week of #CityMatters26 Urban Inequality & Social Justice has started @frw-rug.bsky.social @rug.nl . Lecture tomorrow and squatting role-play on Wednesday. Then: thoughtful student work awaits completion 💡🍀. Groups research justice all around Groningen, and induvidual projects building upon it.

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To boldly plan... NEW: 'Navigating Post-Growth Planning: Leveraging complexity for being intentional and unintentional'. Connectiong complexity, post-growth, Luhmann, roles in planning. In Transaction of AESOP. Read: doi.org/10.24306/TrA... #postgrowthplanning #systemstheory #rolesinplanning

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Social infrastructures as pillars of resistance against housing commodification in creative city Groningen - Bart Popken (@gssisocialsci.bsky.social) enriched us today in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' (Master SSP) at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). #housing #CityMatters26

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧭Urban Complex Futures: Critical Leverage Points. 💻Online series within AESOP Planning and Complexity on 21/10, 11/11, 02/12. Complex systems, sustainability, uncertainty, housing, futures, time/less planning, temporary use.🖌️Info: aesop-planning.eu/tg-news/plan... @frw-rug.bsky.social @rug.nl

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🪧 Public space and the city. Why democrats should worry about urban public space. Verena Frick (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) today at @rug.nl for the Where is Urban Politics series by @frw-rug.bsky.social , University College & @facultyofphilosophygroningen.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy #CityMatters26

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Post-growth and post-carbon futures in spatial planning? Questions between green political economy, social justice, and planning? @profjohnbarry.bsky.social visited us in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' at @frw-rug.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks! #CityMatters26 #postgrowthplanning

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🏙️Lelystad - housing and urban development. 🫵 Planning is not easy, but worth it! Today with students of 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' (Master Society, Sustainability and Planning) from @frw-rug.bsky.social . Support by Centrada, INBO, NPLV Lelystad-Oost & others. #CityMatters26

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Student work ahead! Eight groups start working on their empirical research projects in Groningen in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' at @frw-rug.bsky.social (Master Society, Sustainability & Planning). 🫶 If you see them, support them. #CityMatters26 #socialjustice

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📆This month in Groningen & online: Where is Urban Politics Seminars. 1️⃣ Utopian Ideals & Concrete Utopias (15th) 2️⃣ Public space and the city. Why democrats should worry about urban public space. (30th) 🤓 Be there with us, sites.google.com/rug.nl/where... @frw-rug.bsky.social @rug.nl AESOP & others.

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Getting there again... 🌇 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' soon starting @frw-rug.bsky.social . 🤓Preliminary reading list is coming together. 🌱Yes, there's a lot more than reading - many applications and discussions coming up in Groningen & beyond. #CityMatters26

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Post-Growth Planning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If not now, when...? 🌱 Becoming a post-growth planner. 📻 34 episodes, 37 key thinkers. Pondering on obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices in spatial planning & beyond. 💚 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... & podcast apps. #postgrowthplanning #postgrowth #podcast #rolesinplanning

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Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices - YouTube

The episodes interview inspiring thinkers about contemporary planning and potentials for a transformation towards growth-independent roles and practices. The...

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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

JProf @mattkranke.bsky.social was a guest on the podcast @postgrowthplan.bsky.social. Host Christian Lamker talked with him and Malcolm Campell-Verduyn about their research on post-growth and #growth infrastructures, and their special issue on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’. 🎧 t1p.de/nawfa

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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn – postgrowthplanning.com

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Getting ready... Today at noon in Vancouver. Speaking about research @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) and connections to #postgrowthplanning

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Published my last podcast interview this spring with Julia Grosinger (@icta-uab.bsky.social) in #34. Moving into rural areas, human needs, loved places, participatory methods. Always learning, loving this open format. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XF... (also Spotify, Apple, website) #postgrowthplanning

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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #34: Julia Grosinger

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Great podcast, great host – thanks to @raumplaner.bsky.social for moderating this podcast episode. Link 👇 Link to the special issue in @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...

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(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🛣️Infrastructures and how to take socio-material relations (in #postgrowthplanning) seriously? Matthias Kranke (Duisburg-Essen) & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (Groningen) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner' #33. 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/7gcf... (also on YouTube & others) #podcast

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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

From systems thinking in housing to the manifesto for housing in a post-growth world. Running through #postgrowthplanning with @annapagani.bsky.social in podcast episode #32 - 'a collective activity of mutual learning, informed by a systems approach' 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/1N1z...

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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #32: Anna Pagani

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🌎 Extending the scope of 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner'. ❓How we change that big paradigm of architecture: building is growing, growing is welfare, and it's also progress and happiness. 🎯 Episode #31 at open.spotify.com/episode/0PEV... (also on other platforms) #postgrowthplanning #podcast

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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #31: Alejandro del Castillo Sánchez

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Thanks for joining the podcast @anitranelson.bsky.social 🌱. Becoming a Post-Growth Planner, episode 30. 🎙️ Also on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/3HeJ...

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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #30: Anitra Nelson

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

⁉️ "Citizens in urban futures, shaping post-growth planning together?" Invitation to join the talk and discusion in Vancouver (Canada) at Simon Fraser University on Fri 8 May. #postgrowthplanning #rolesinplanning

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🌱It's growing! Three years & 11,600 views since "The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth" in @planningtheory.bsky.social (with Dan Durrant, Yvonne Rydin) 🛋️ doi.org/10.1080/1464... #postgrowthplanning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social

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The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🧭 Call for Papers: Complexity Unpacked: Analytical Tools & Practical Insights for Uncertain Futures. 🗓️ 8-9 Jan 2027, University of Nicosia (Cyprus). 24th Conference of the AESOP TG on Planning and Complexity. ⏰15 June 2026. See aesop-planning.eu/tg-news/plan... #AESOP #Complexity

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Anitra Nelson @anitranelson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Great, thanks @postgrowthplan.bsky.social for the lively discussion on postgrowth planning futures centred on #horizontalism and #degrowth

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🌱 "Post-growth plannng is opening a debate and action on a social and material transformation to a more equitable and just relation between us and between us and earth". Thanks to @anitranelson.bsky.social for taking me (again) into your long experiences! 📻Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3HeJ...

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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #30: Anitra Nelson

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🐌 Slow down, scale out, work with. Feminist perspectives in post-growth planning. Guest lecture recording by @sware.bsky.social (CEU, Vienna) in #CriticalApproaches26 by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & myself in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social . ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGvL... #postgrowthplanning

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Sarah Ware: Feminist perspectives on post-growth planning

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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen | Spatial Sciences @frw-rug.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Job alert! We're looking for an assistant professor in Spatial Planning and Design who has a PhD in the field of spatial design, spatial planning, geography, public administration, land and water management, with qualifications on spatial design. Deadline 3 April werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ass...

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

New episode of 'Becoming a post-growth planner' with @sofiagreaves.bsky.social . Looking back to what happened since our talk in 2023 (episode #16). And to what comes next in Oslo. "Spatial planning is in many ways generating problems for itself to solve, right?"📻 open.spotify.com/episode/6iRo...

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Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #29: Sofia Greaves

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

City of the Commons or City of Commodities? ⁉️ How urban commons and social movements struggle for a radically democratic creative city in Groningen. Bart Popken (GSSI, Italy / @frw-rug.bsky.social) in the 'Where is Urban Politics?' series in Groningen (@rug.nl) 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=itg_...

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City of the Commons or City of Commodities? (Bart Popken)

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Andreas Kynast @andikynast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"Verhängnisvoller politischer Fehler" Bundespräsident Steinmeier kritisiert den Iran-Krieg als "völkerrechtswidrig" - und die Bundesregierung, die ihn nicht so nennt.

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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen | Spatial Sciences @frw-rug.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

PhD positions! Healthy & Sustainable Urban Regions: Exploring Evidence-Based Planning Approaches Inclusive, sustainable, & efficient accessibility: systematically evaluating and learning from smart initiatives Youth Inclusion in Decision-Making for Climate-Responsive Cities. Info werkenbij.rug.nl

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Alle vacatures - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🏙️ 🙅‍♂️'Institutional activism within the local state: exploring ambitions for deep transformation in Amsterdam'. Line Kvartborg Vestergard in a short interview for #PlanningDynamics26 (by Ferry van Kann & me @frw-rug.bsky.social) about her paper with Benedikt Schmid. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8W9...

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Interview: Institutional activism within the local state (Line Kvartborg Vestergaard)

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🌱 Glad having Sarah Ware (@sware.bsky.social) from CEU Vienna tuning in for the last session of #CriticalApproaches26 today at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). 💡On 'Feminist perspectives in post-growth planning'. An immense pleasure teaching the course, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social .

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Almost finishing #CriticalApproaches26 connecting from sustainability to post-growth planning yesterday (Master course by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me at @frw-rug.bsky.social). 🌱 Last session tomorrow with Sarah Ware (Vienna) on feminist perspectives, and watching group projects!

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

'Models like heroes?' Felix Krawczyk from University of Kassel (@kasselinstitute.bsky.social) visited @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me yesterday in #CriticalApproaches26 at @frw-rug.bsky.social for making integrated assessment models ready for deep carbonisation & socio-economic transformation.

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

'How climate imaginaries (re)shape space' - this Tuesday, @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me had the privilege of having Juliana Gonçalves from TU Delft as a guest in #CriticalApproaches26 in Groningen at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). Visionary approaches, realities - and prefigurative politics.

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🐌'Global Hinterlands and Regional Backyards: Values, Ethics, and Care for Earth’s community' - one of my favourite lecture weeks in #CriticalApproaches26 (in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social). 👍Thanks to curious, motivated, and motivating, Master students.

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🎥Thanks to everyone for joining 'The Cost of Growth' yesterday in Groningen (@rug.nl, @frw-rug.bsky.social) with documentary producer Lena Hartog. 🌏 Organised by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & others, connected to #CriticalApproaches26

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

⁉️'Is land take a public or private decision?' Luke Juday visited us from @tuwien.at (Austria) yesterday in Groningen @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). ⚖️ Delving into the ongoing international comparative study of six regions and urban growth and property rights. 🌱 Good luck with next research steps!

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

'Dit wordt Groningen'. 💡Organising the physical environment with the coming Omgevingsvisie (Environmental Vision) for our region. 💬 Ron Lander (Province of Groningen) today in #PlanningDynamics26 by Ferry van Kann & me at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) to our 3rd year Bachelor's students.

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Planetary boundaries in the real world - Ports & Global Maritime in #CriticalApproaches26 by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social &me at @frw-rug.bsky.social : 🌍A special pleasure welcoming Tanner Tuttle (@oneplanetport.bsky.social & alumni of #CriticalApproaches23) for presentation & open discussion!

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Food for thought in today's #CriticalApproaches26 lecture @frw-rug.bsky.social . 🤓Open for further answers, thoughts, questions, ... - please share, also for coming years of the great course, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social !

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Prof Jan Stielike from Jade Hochschule Oldenburg visiting us today in #PlanningDynamics26 in Groningen at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl) . Comparing spatial planning systems, jumping into current socio-spatial challenges, strengthening collaborations in our region. 💡Making futures better together!

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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen | Spatial Sciences @frw-rug.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Experts Ward Rauws en Sander van Lanen bepleiten dat de Ontwerp-Nota Ruimte aan kracht en robuustheid wint wanneer onderliggende waarden expliciet worden gemaakt en keuzes scherper worden uitgewerkt www.rug.nl/frw/news/fac...

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Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen RUG steunt nationale ruimtelijke regie, maar roept op tot scherpere keuzes in Ontwerp-Nota Ruimte

De Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) spreekt haar waardering uit voor de Ontwerp-Nota Ruimte, waarin het Rijk...

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

⚠️There are things that are just no market goods, to begin with: basic human rights, sovereign countries and territories, freedom of thinking and speaking.

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