A bunch of humans

ShiftSlow is an association for the promotion of a just and colourful social-ecological transformation, founded in 2021 in Vienna, Austria. We provide critical education around the topics of post- or degrowth, development strategies, cultural change and a global socio-ecological transition towards a good life for all. The aim of the young association is to become a think and do tank dealing with the design of a livable and just future and creates high-quality educational content and formats directed towards this end. 

We are an international collective of young people from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, UK and Ukraine. We are a trans- and interdisciplinary team united by our belief in social ecological transformation through experiential, experimental education and culture change.

Lorenzo, Maxime, Vlad, Tati, Noel and Naomi setting up the first edition of the Altshift Festival in Gars am Kamp close to Vienna, Austria

Lara Stammen

My roots lie in the lower Rhine area in Germany, in a little village in which I grew up with my family. Alumna of the MA in Arts and Heritage at Maastricht University, I worked with XR in the Netherlands on art activism as transformative climate change communication. Currently I co-create a community based militant podcast as my end project for the MA Political Ecology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. For this podcast project, I moved to a community-based environmental education center in the South of Spain which is currently fulfilling me with a lot of passion for action towards local resiliences.

Lara Stammen