This magazine brings together texts and images that express one of the most important ideas of our time: sufficiency. It has long been clear that sufficient living has nothing to do with renunciation, prohibition or dreary discipline. Rather, we have recognized the benefits: A positive understanding – less is more – characterizes a new fullness of life that is blossoming in all areas of life – in our homes, in our mobility, in fashion, in our kitchens and on our plates. SusAnNa starts from the observation that there is hardly anything among the discoveries of sustainability that produces more diversity of expression than sufficiency.
SusAnNa would like to contribute to individual and cultural self-assurance in matters of sustainability. To this end, it draws on the many testimonies to sufficient beauty and emancipation in literature, art and the history of ideas. This is another reason why the magazine leads into science: How can less is more and its potential be captured in the social sciences? What questions and connections does this raise for economics, politics and our demands for social justice? In order to show this, the following pages are initially dedicated to the SusAnNa research project, which also gave this magazine its title.
Time and again, however, the sensual side – the aesthetics of sufficiency – takes center stage. One discovers here: Sufficiency is not sparse and narrow-lipped, but the opposite, diversity and expression. There is a good reason for emphasizing this on many pages of this magazine: we assume that our perception is a key and a leverage point in the sustainable transformation process. We believe that climate and resource protection has a lot to do with breaking through old ways of perceiving things and discovering new ones.