session 2

POST GROWTH

How can fashion move beyond growth?
You have probably heard this before: there is no infinite growth on a finite planet. This is a hard fact, and at odds with the way our society and economic systems are set up now. Businesses strive for constant growth. But the reality is that our planet is simply reaching its boundaries as to what it can provide. So, in order to keep our planet an inhabitable one, we need to reconsider growth as the main pillar for our society and our behaviors. But how can we do that?

12 DECEMBER '23 / 19:00h @NEW OPTIMIST

During this Community Session, we will take you on a journey through what a post growth future could look like and we share with you how and why New Optimists business and funding model is based on post growth principles.

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HOW CAN FASHION MOVE BEYOND GROWTH?

At New Optimist, we look at growth from a different perspective. We embracing the idea of the right scale, not the biggest possible scale. Our business model is structured so profits will not endlessly fill the pockets of shareholders.

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PANELLIST & HOST, MODERATOR

MELANIE RIEBACK - Co-founder/CEO at "Post Growth" startup incubator Nonprofit Ventures.
Lecturer Post Growth Entrepreneurship at UVA

XANDER SLAGER - Co-founder New Optimist

CARLOTTA LUISA KELBER - Fashion student at AMFI specialising in Post- and Degrowth

Moderated by
NYNKE EGGEN - Founder The Sustainability Club

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