MODELLING URBAN DEGROWTH

2022 Modelling Urban Degrowth Workshop, (Re)configuring Territories, Narva Art Residency Advisors: Metasitu Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina Team: Grant Penfield Haugen, Aneta Kohoutová, Joanna Łałowska, Annela Samuel, Anna Saviaro.

Project Location: Narva, Estonia

This project prepares and comes ups with frameworks for cities that are shedding their populations.

Metasitu’s “Modelling Urban Degrowth” workshop at the (Re)Configuring Territories Spring School, organized by Trojan Horse at the Narva Art Residency, uses an urban futures narrative that doesn’t use economics and population at its core. Situated on the Estonian-Russian border, the post-industrial city of Narva was used as our stage, exploring the area to develop tools to help us address the materiality, ecologies and lifecycles of shrinking cities. Degrowth is a transformative process that leaves many elements behind an on-site (flora and fauna for examples), along with intangible items like memories. The various conversations that took place were documented and assembled them into a zine.