ABSTRACT
The concept of 'Good Living' (Buen Vivir), which represents views of life and life practices that exist in various parts of the planet, offers multiple possibilities to rethink the logics of production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services, as well as the dominant social and political structures and experiences that are typical of capitalist civilisations. The Good Living, as long as its ancestral origins and communitarian potentials are neither forgotten nor manipulated, can provide a platform for discussion, agreement and reaction to the devastating effects of climate change and growing social marginalisation and violence in the world. Good Living consists in a task of (re)construction that involves dismantling the universal goal for all societies: progress, development, as well as their many synonyms. Good Living must be conceived as a dynamic category of permanent construction and reproduction. The Good Living, with its biocentric approach, projects itself as a platform to generate urgent answers to the current challenges facing humanity.
