GreenFormation on behalf of EMCCINNO is presenting this week at the Degrowth Conference in Kraków (16–19 June 2026), hosted by Jagiellonian University. Our contribution focuses on the EMCCINNO Budapest pilot, Internép, as a concrete example of degrowth-in-practice in Central and Eastern Europe.
Located on Népszínház Street in Budapest, Internép is a cultural collective operating at the intersection of community economies, urban ecological transformation, and cultural placemaking. Through practices such as participatory stage-building, reclaiming a shared courtyard as a commons, and iterative street-level folk theatre events, Internép brings together marginalised residents and more-than-human actors to co-create neighbourhood life beyond growth logics.
Within the EMCCINNO project, we have been developing an adaptable doughnut framework to assess the ecological, organisational and social effects of hybrid resource mixes, non-monetary exchanges, and participatory governance in small eco-social collectives like Internép. The framework builds on doughnut economics and is designed to make the quiet, often invisible degrowth experiments of cultural organisations visible and organisationally relevant.
At the Kraków conference, we place the Internép experiment in dialogue with other EMCCINNO pilot sites across Europe and with broader degrowth debates in the CEE region, exploring how cultural and artistic collectives can bridge green and just transformations. We look forward to the conversations ahead and to further strengthening the network of researchers and practitioners working towards a socially just and ecologically grounded future in the region and beyond.
