Name: Small is Beautiful: The Next 50 Years
Start: 2023-09-14T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-14T17:00:00+02:00
Location: De Kleine Aarde

Small is Beautiful: The Next 50 Years

Schumacher Labs Netherlands

Join us for the 1st Schumacher Lecture, by David Bollier and help shape the establishment of a Schumacher-inspired centre in the Netherlands

De Kleine Aarde

“And what is my case? Simply that our most important task is to get off our present collision course. And who is there to tackle such a task? I think every one of us, whether old or young, powerful or powerless, rich or poor, influential or un-influential.”- E.F. Schumacher. <h2>First Annual Small is Beautiful Lecture:The Next 50 years</h2>On the 50th anniversary of E.F. Schumacher's seminal work Small is Beautiful, the core idea of his work — a placed-based economy in sync with living ecosystems and social needs — is as urgent and relevant as it has ever been. To honour Schumacher's ideas and move them forward in our time of ecological crisis and economic overreach, we feel the time is right for a Schumacher-inspired center in the Netherlands. 		“An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.”With an emphasis on the actionable, we envision a physical transformative space, a LAB, where a diversity of individuals, groups and organisations can explore, build and further the new ideas, social practices, technologies and policies for building a new type of society. The center will draw on the special contributions of arts and culture, economics, ecological sciences, and personal development.To help kick off a wider public consideration of Schumacher NL, we are proud to announce that commons activist and scholar David Bollier will deliver the first annual Small Is Beautiful Lecture at the Kleine Aarde in Boxtel on September 14, 2023. David is Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics in Massachusetts, United States. De Kleine Aarde, as a contemporary model, breathes Schumacher's work. Hereby, we cordially invite you to be part of our common movement. The afternoon is an active invitation to help build Schumacher NL and will offer room for dialogue, initiative building, and connecting . Please join us. With warm regards,Natascha Hulst - Shinta Oosterwaal - Lonneke Rhodens - Reinout Wissenburg - Karin Bakker -Godelieve Spaas - Harry Wesseling - Geert van der Veer - Henry MentinkCan you offer a lift or do you need a lift to the event? Then go to our carpool link. http://www.groupcarpool.com/t/4awjzt(It still says July 4th but it should say Sept 14)

Agenda

Welcome at De Kleine Aarde

 Lecture David Bollier

Geert van de Veer (Herenboeren), Natasha Hulst (Grond van Bestaan/ Voedselpark Amsterdam) and others will share their experience with commons and commoning in practice

Commons for food, land and knowledge in the Netherlands 

Round table dialogues

 Closing remarks and launching the intention for Schumacher Lab in NL

Opportunity for exploring the grounds and connecting

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