Is
Sustainability
Dead?!
Tipping Point 2026: A Day of Critical Sustainabilities
How can we build community and organize in the midst of sustainability collapse? What are the most promising alternatives to dominant ecomodernist sustainability transition discourses, and how can we better understand how these alternatives are put 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. Or what else could we conclude if, this year too, we reviewed how we have managed sustainability?
You can participate by preparing a presentation of approximately 5 minutes to share your ideas, joining open space workshops to connect with other interested people, or simply attending for fun! We welcome academics, artists, NGOs, social movements, people doing essential work, ICT workers, farmers, organisations of all kinds and anyone interested in critical discussions on sustainability.
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Is Sustainability Dead?! Tipping Point 2026 — A Day of Critical Sustainabilities
What? Open, free-of-charge unconference and workshop to discuss critical sustainabilities and find new connections and alliances for action.
When? Wed 28.10.2026 at 9:30–16:30 + music and friends (16:30–)!
Where? Oranssi, Suvilahti, Kaasutehtaankatu 1, Helsinki
Price: 0 € (coffee and light lunch included)
How? Please register in advance! You will receive a confirmation well before the event.
Programme (TBC):
9.00 Welcome to join in organising the space!
9.30 Morning coffee and gathering
First part of the day: abstract critical sustainability
10:00 Opening of the event
10.10 Critical Town Square (presentations + activations)
11.30 Open discussion
12.15 Lunch + hang out
Second part of the day: practiced critical sustainability
13.15 Opening of the afternoon part (Facilitators)
13.25 Roundtable presentations
14.15 Open Space Workshop begins
16.15 Final words and closing the event
16.30-17:30 Music and friends! (debrief)
CRITICAL TOWN SQUARE AND ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATIONS:
We will have numerous short presentations from academicians, artists, activists, independent researchers, entrepreneurs and all kinds of professionals and practitioners. We will confirm all the presentations in advance and publish them here!
OPEN SPACE WORKSHOP:
Open Space is a technique for running meetings where the participants create and manage the agenda themselves. Participants agree on the areas of discussion that have importance for them and then take responsibility for facilitating the sessions. At the beginning of the workshop, anyone can suggest the areas or fields where radical change is needed. Please think about a topic beforehand or get inspired by the critical town square presentations.
MUSIC AND FRIENDS:
DJ Kolektiv is a group of DJs from Finland and Africa. Created in 2023, we have performed in private and public events in Lapland and Southern Finland. We bring to you a blend of African music, pop, old-timers, and good vibes for the autumn.
Tipping Point: Is Sustainability Dead?! A Day of Critical Sustainabilities is an unconference organised by a group of sustainability-minded individuals.
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