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Transformation or alibi for progress?

Michael Brunn
22 Apr 2026

Actually, everyone can agree on a circular economy, but it still doesn't really want to work. Yannik Gehlen from TU Darmstadt argues in his essay "Between System Change and Self-Deception: Four Theses on the Ambivalence of the Circular Economy" that a "cultural change of perspective" is the basis for the success of the circular economy.

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