Valentina Donato is pursuing a Master’s in Urban Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Université Libre De Bruxelles. She is engaged in questioning power dynamics and social inequality issues within the built environment. She is interested in storytelling, shared food practices, and bottom-up initiatives for a degrowth-based society
Colombia’s flower industry: a story of extractivism and resistance
For degrowth thinkers and activists, this means not only rejecting extractivism in theory but learning from the everyday practices of those who are working on alternatives. But it also means finding hope and direction in the grounded, collective visions blooming across the Sabana de Bogotá.
September 17, 2025
