Humanity today violates seven of the nine planetary boundaries that represent a safe ecological space for human life on Earth. Technology, often positioned as solving the dilemma of "sustainable development," drives so much destruction that it is clear: its role is conflicted.

This course draws on frameworks such as degrowth, the pluriverse, and decolonization to invite students to explore how technologies can be shaped "otherwise" to genuinely support human and ecological flourishing. We explore technology design outside the confines of capitalist extractivist logics, profit incentives, colonial roots, and structural organization.

We discuss: how capitalism shapes modern information technology; what crises we are in today; why "green growth" is impossible; how some resist the drivers of capitalist tech in the past and present; what happens outside systems of invention dominated by capitalist rules; how IT can be shaped differently; and how that already happens today.