Table 1: Material realities
Everyday Digital Degrowth
Contradictions of EU Battery Regulation on facilitating circular economy
How would a slower food future taste like?
Tipping Point 2026: Is Sustainability Dead?! A Day of Critical Sustainabilities
Wednesday 28 October 20269:30–16:30 · music until 17:30Oranssi / Suvilahti · Kaasutehtaankatu 1, HelsinkiRegister for the day
01 / THE QUESTION
What happens at the tipping point?
How can we build community and organise in the midst of sustainability collapse? What are the most promising alternatives to dominant ecomodernist approaches to sustainability transitions—and how do we put them into practice? Can we move beyond “more, more, and more” and begin to ask: what about less?
What are our visions of possible post-fossil, post-capitalist futures or alternative sustainabilities? What makes change possible? How do we build strategic networks and mobilise others? What do we need now to strengthen collective agency and exercise the locus of control we still have? Enough with unfulfilled, deliberately overcomplicated, atomised, tamed and rapidly normalised forms of sustained unsustainability.
If we took an honest look at how we have handled sustainability this year, what else could we conclude?
A living field of critical sustainabilities
#Activism#Agency#Alienation#Alternatives#Anarchy#Art-Science#Atomisation#Autonomy#Barbarism#Behaviour#Biocommunism#Capitalypse#Citizen sustainability#Cocreation#Collapse#Collectives#Colonialisation#Crisis#Critical approach#Dark socialism#Degrowth#Ecodharma#Ecomodernism#Economism#Education#Elective democracy#End of sustainability#Extractivism#Feminism#Free Palestine#Hope#Leviathan#Less and less and less#Locus of Control#Modernity#More and more and more#Neoliberalism#Oikos#Oppression#Panarchy#Path dependency#Pluriversalism#Polycrisis#Post-sustainability#Prefigurative pathways#Repair#Resilience#Rupture#Socialism#Structuration#Sustainability Science#Tipping points#Transformation#Unconference#Wicked problems
02 / THE DAY
Programme*
Wednesday 28 October 2026
At Oranssi, Suvilahti, Helsinki
Full programme · updated from Google Sheets
Open programme in Google Sheets ↗Welcome to join in organising the space
Morning coffee and gathering
Morning part: Abstract critical sustainability
Opening the event
Critical town square starts
How to think about societal collapse?
How can societies and communities be organized around care?
Is political influencing futile and is democracy dead? Some perspectives on the connections and contrasts between grassroots activism, politics and business lobbying.
Quick audience activation 10 min
Libidinal infrastructures for a world in crisis
How is it defensible to claim that living in Northern Europe is sustainable?
Dismantling the anthropocentrism within
Quick audience activation 10 min
Dancing After Sustainability
General open discussion and Q&A
Lunch break, Registration for the open space workshops opens
Afternoon part: Practiced critical sustainability
Opening of the afternoon
Introducing roundtables
Parallel roundtables · choose a table
Table 2: Humane
Community-making á la neurodiversity
Affective Sustainability: How Feelings Matter for Radical Transformative Change
Necessity and freedom: Reproductive labour as a baseline for sustainability, care and community
Come and join World Village Festival 29.-30.5.2027 in Suvilahti!
Table 3: Paradoxes
The Growth Dependencies of Contemporary Societies
(degrowth, capitalism, technology, decolonial thought/pluriverse themed presentation)
The tripartite problematique that is the critical sustainability praxis
economic inequality, the rise of the far right and anti-fascist economics
Table 4: Culture
How to make people care? What film dramaturgy can teach us about overcoming the action gap
We would like to introduce our platform and see how we could contribute in the future with others
What you might not know you know about sustainability: a body-based experiment
Table 5: Collectives
Climate Justice Now!
Epic ethis and the golden rule in the 2100st century
Environmentalism through entrepreneuring - Cooperative businesses as agents of systemic change
From Self to Symbiosis: Bioregional Learning Centers as Evolutionary Cells for Collective Flourishing
Table 6: Diversion
What's happening with academic freedom? Campaigning for the freedom to research
The unsustainable continuous war model
Who we are and what we have going on currently
Table 7: Justice
Vulnerability to energy poverty in Finnish households: accounting for low-income households in transitions to sustainable energy systems
Ecological justice
A contribution to the critique of corporate social responsibility and sustainability
How do sustainability and violence intersect in necropolitical spaces?
Break 10 min
Open space workshop instructions
Open space workshops
- Workshop group 1
- Workshop group 2
- Workshop group 3
- Workshop group 4
- Workshop group 5
- Workshop group 6
- Workshop group 7
Summarizing the results of open space workshops
Final words and closing
Music and friends
Programme subject to change. Changes made in Google Sheets appear here automatically after a short delay.
THIS YEAR’S VENUE
Oranssi / Suvilahti
Official address: Kaasutehtaankatu 1, Helsinki. The map marks the Oranssi building where the event takes place.
Admission is free. Coffee and a light lunch are included. Please register in advance; we’ll send a confirmation before the event.
Open directions to Oranssi in Google Maps ↗03 / PARTICIPATE
More than an audience.
Bring a short presentation, join the Open Space workshop, or simply turn up to listen, connect and take part. Admission is free; coffee and a light lunch are included.
Critical Town Square
We will have short presentations from academics, artists, activists, independent researchers, entrepreneurs and other professionals and practitioners. We will confirm the presentations in advance and publish them here.
Open Space Workshop
In Open Space, participants set the agenda and take responsibility for facilitating the discussions that matter to them. At the start of the workshop, anyone can suggest an area where radical change is needed. Bring a topic of your own or take inspiration from the Critical Town Square presentations.
Music and friends
DJ Kolektiv is a group of DJs from Finland and Africa. Founded in 2023, the collective has performed at private and public events in Lapland and southern Finland. Expect a blend of African music, pop, old favourites and good vibes for the autumn.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Register for free Academics, artists, NGOs, social movements, people doing essential work, ICT workers, farmers, culture workers, organisations of all kinds and anyone interested in critical discussions on sustainability.
04 / EVENT SUPPORTED BY
With the support of