TNOC Festival 2024

Welcome to the Nature of Cities Festival 2024! Three weeks of interconnected events where you can join virtually or in-person to get inspired, to learn, to present, collaborate, or to meet hundreds of new best friends and urban nature co-conspirators. The virtual segment of the Festival operates around the clock, so set your time zone to see which sessions are good for you. If you are not registered yet, you can register using a credit card or coupon code below. To use a different payment method (ApplePay, GiroPay, etc...) visit the TNOC FESTIVAL WEBSITE for other options.

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08:00 EDT

ONE Body Ritual Plänterwald forestNazlı Gürlek Hodder Activating local communities with the Kiezlabor In-Person BerlinAnne Kruse • Henriette Närger • Julian Zefferer Berries, roses, lizards and dogs: feral fieldwork at the ‘Nasse Dreieck’ In-Person BerlinAlice Cannavà • Chiara Garbellotto • Sina Ribak Building Place to Inspire and Nurture People In-Person Berlin Ecological urban development at the former Tegel Airport In-Person BerlinCampus Stadt Natur • Daniela Pasdzierny • Susanne Schmitt Field Trip to Spreepark Art Space In-Person BerlinKatja Aßmann • Jenny Sréter Memorialisation and Urban Greening Walking Tour In-Person Berlin Nature Experience Areas for independent play in Berlin – "Wild World" at Kienbergpark In-Person BerlinMaria Schoenen • Katja Czerwinski Organisms Democracy Berlin Osloer Straße In-Person BerlinPaz Ponce • Georg Reinhardt • Marianna Sonneck Tracing the rain: Sponge City neighborhood Rummelsburger Bucht In-Person BerlinDarla Nickel • Samuel Pearson

15:00 EDT

The secret Berlin nightlife - nocturnal wildlife in cemeteries In-Person BerlinSarah Kiefer • Sophia Kimmig • Tanja Straka

03:00 EDT

Berlin Plenary 1 In-Person BerlinBritta Behrendt • Theresa Williamson, Ph.D

05:00 EDT

Berlin Plenary 2 In-Person BerlinDave Kendal • Ana López Ortego

06:30 EDT

LUNCH catered by Roots Radicals TBA

08:00 EDT

Art as Living Infrastructure: Resourcing Containers for Long-Term Innovation In-Person Berlin Exploring the Power of Stories and Art for Understanding Diverse Perspectives on Nature-based Solutions In-Person BerlinVanya Bisht • Mariana Hernández • Danielle MacCarthy Local Food Heroes In-Person BerlinJohanna Vordemfelde • ICLEI Small Native Gardens . In-Person BerlinMariajesús Parada • Florencia Pérez • Sofia Schmidt Cartografias del agua In-Person BerlinCarolina Fiallo Co-creating Urban Biodiversity: Untapping the Potential of Citizens and Civil-Society Initiatives In-Person BerlinDörte Martens • Sandra Naumann • Michael Rollnik Design for Wiser Action In-Person BerlinCharlotte Griestop • Anna-Zoë Herr Governance of NbS forwards urban biodiversity: towards the triptych of collaborative, inclusive and integrative approaches In-Person BerlinNiki Frantzeskaki • Katharina Holsher • Israa Mahmoud • Emma Puerari • Daniela Rizzi How to imagine urban futures? Try to think laterally! In-Person BerlinSaša Poljak Istenič • Valentina Gulin Zrnić Putting justice in perspective: A collective reflection on experiences and new questions for justice in/for/with urban nature-based solutions In-Person BerlinCharlotte Stijnen • Charlotte Stijnen Let's plan for climate resilience: a Berlin case study in Mierendorff-Insel In-Person BerlinJamie Chan • Ulrich Heink • Sebastian Horstkotte • Dirk Jakubczick • The Nature Conservancy

10:00 EDT

Textile Islands: Weaving Geopolitics and Social Narratives in African Port-Cities In-Person BerlinSeth Kriger • Vida Madighi-Oghu Warm Data Lab In-Person BerlinMajka Baur • Franziska Gaupp • Kathleen Grieger • Julia Karmo • Katharina Ulbing Comparative Experiences in Community Interactions with Living Schoolyards In-Person BerlinRocio Alonso • Veronica Fabio • Miguel Kanai • Riccardo Saraco Divided Generations - a short film on local ecological knowledge In-Person BerlinBaiba Prūse Envisioning Action for a Symbiotic Bogotá In-Person BerlinMateo Villegas Villegas How to empower cities to lead the path forward in bold biodiversity action - the Berlin Urban Nature Pact In-Person BerlinAletta Bonn • Jennifer Cote • Florian Freutel • Stefanie Hennecke • Sandra Naumann • Kassia Rudd • Philipp LaHaela Walter • ICLEI La gestión ambiental en las artes escénicas: Metamorfosis Urbana In-Person BerlinDaniela Laura Picardi Learning from Nature Based Solutions in African Cities In-Person BerlinInca Horn • NATURA Livable or Resilient? How biophilia enhances our cities In-Person BerlinDeborah Lefosse Nature-based solutions in the Global South: Opportunities and limitations in Policy and Practice In-Person BerlinErich Wolff • Nanyang Technological University Developing policies *that work* for nature and for people: a co-creation approach In-Person BerlinNatalia Burgos Cuevas • McKenna Davis • Ewa Iwaszuk • Ecologic Institute Do ecologists, landscape designers and architects speak the same language ? In-Person BerlinMarc Barra Launch of the English and Global South Edition of the "Guide for integrating nature-based solutions in urban planning". In-Person BerlinMcKenna Davis • Carolina Figueroa • Nadia Sitas • Andrea Svensson URBES FUTURES – Lessons learned for Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - 10 years after BiodivERsa’s URBES project (2011-2014) In-Person BerlinFrancesc Baró • Niki Frantzeskaki • Chantal van Ham • Nadja Kabisch

12:45 EDT

OPTIONAL: Cafe Botanico, Farm to Table Dinner TBA

14:00 EDT

Oracular peace. Peace options through vision. Inner improvisation workshop. In-Person BerlinEmilio Fantin Short Film Program 1 – Radical Care In-Person BerlinMandar Apte • Carmen Bouyer • Nazlı Gürlek Hodder • Patrick Lydon • S. Viviana Murillo-Morales • Tamara Singh A radical alternative to drop-down planning: the Rivers and People approach centres people, ecology, culture, and community action in to reimagine low income riverine neighborhoods. In-Person BerlinJoe Mulligan • Silvia Kiama • Pascal Mukanga • Franklin Kirimi

03:00 EDT

Berlin Plenary 3 In-Person BerlinMarcus Collier • Dagmar Haase • Neil de Wet

05:00 EDT

Theatre as Collective Imagination: the space between what "Is" and what "Could Be" In-Person BerlinTamara Lynne [Visual] Storytelling for NbS In-Person BerlinMarta Delas • Charlie LaGreca • David Maddox "FEM Design Tools" In-Person BerlinNourhan Bassam, Ph.D. 5D Mapping the Future Together In-Person BerlinMarina Demchenko • Lev Gordon • Marilyn Hamilton • Uri Noy Meir • Ferial Puren • Living Cities Earth An NbS tour around Europe: local experiences and lessons learnt from working together with and for nature In-Person BerlinAnna Bruen • Shreya Utkarsh Experiential Futures: Are darker nightscapes the path for multispecies cities? In-Person BerlinLoan Diep • Melissa Ingaruca Moreno Interrupting narratives of human-nature connections for NBS governance In-Person BerlinJanneke den Dekker-Arlain Let's play! Designing nature-based solutions in Minecraft In-Person BerlinJagger Biggs • Ivan Gajos • Natasha Jacob • Paul Mahony Municipio de Ubaté: Simbiosis rural-urbano In-Person BerlinDaniel Ignacio Arriaga Salamanca Next-generation SDGs: Pathways to wholeness & aliveness In-Person BerlinMario Yanez • Mario Yanez Women placing biophilia at the heart of 21st century urbanism In-Person BerlinMay East Worldly visions of a healthy living environment - what is yours? In-Person BerlinMarthe Derkzen • Agnès Patuano An agile approach for NBS, placing end-users at the heart In-Person BerlinSara Maestre Andrés • Julie Callebaut • Sander Jacobs • Johannes Langemeyer • Michael Leone • Isabel Melo • Dieter Mortelmans • Nicolas Salmon Towards a global roadmap for urban nature-based solutions In-Person BerlinLoan Diep • Yeowon Kim • Timon McPhearson • Natalie Pierson • Erich Wolff • NATURA

06:30 EDT

LUNCH catered by Roots Radicals TBA

08:00 EDT

Creactivism, Pop Culture and Capoeira for a post-capitalist society ASAP In-Person BerlinSophia Kecir Camper Green planet music sheet. In-Person BerlinEstefanos Mayen Aguirre Acting for justice in nature-based solutions In-Person BerlinSara Maestre Andrés • Natalia Burgos Cuevas • Max Krombholz Crafty and Creative Communication In-Person BerlinAnna Bruen • Kassia Rudd • ICLEI Dérives of migrant landscapes: Meeting points between species and places In-Person BerlinFátima Bernardo • Pablo Quiroga Devia • Laura Rozas Letelier • Isabel Loupa Ramos • Lina Maria Hoyos Rojas Envisioning Positive Futures for the Urban Public Space In-Person BerlinOlivia Aminta Estrada-Leyva • Jorinde-Marie Rieger Overcoming barriers to empower equitable urban coastal resilience: the clock is ticking. In-Person BerlinBryce Corlett • Laura Costadone RE:PLAY Think-Tank-Act for Redesigning Playscapes with Children and Youth In-Person BerlinPredrag Milic • Natalija Ostojic • Mirjana Utvic A call for a paradigm shift in European coastal governance In-Person BerlinNicolás Santelices Artaza • Carla Gonçalves • Eva Schick Community Harmony for Sustainable Future: Smart Leaders Program Showcase In-Person BerlinDania Maraqah This is not a painting. This is not a landscape In-Person BerlinFrançois Mancebo • Sylvie Salles Untangling the Interconnectedness of Biodiversity and Human Health in Urban Areas via Social-Ecological Networks In-Person BerlinAletta Bonn • Joanna Coleman • Monika Egerer • Solène Guenat • Jonathan Jeschke • Florian Ruhland • Tanja Straka

09:00 EDT

Short Film Program 2 – Radical Awareness In-Person BerlinOrestis Athanasopoulos • Carmen Bouyer • Emilio Fantin • Patrick Lydon • Susanne Wieland

10:00 EDT

Creative Catalysts: Exploring Alternative Knowledge Forms to Inspire Action for Nature In-Person BerlinFunmi Adeniyi • Erin Hill • Ruby Schalit • Ernita Van Wyk • ICLEI DIY with DYE plants In-Person BerlinAnne-Charlotte Viriot The hidden life of urban pavement cracks In-Person BerlinSophie Lokatis • Susanne Wieland "Radical Collaboration to Foster Transformation Towards Climate Neutrality” In-Person BerlinInna Chilik Bridging Perspectives: Co-creating Nature-Based Futures Across Disciplines In-Person BerlinTim Lüschen • Prospex Institute Led by the nose: How do multisensory perceptions help develop radical knowledge production? In-Person BerlinAnna Novakov Let's Solve a Mystery! A Play-Based Approach to Environmental Education In-Person BerlinAnia Upstill Take a walk on the wild side: Tools to explore animals' perspectives in the urban space In-Person BerlinRichard Beecroft • Tanja Godlewsky • Jasmin Jossin • Annette Voigt Walks in the Garden In-Person BerlinAndrew Amondson Arts of noticing: Tuning in to urban natures In-Person BerlinLoren March Discover the ABCS: Atlas for Biodiversity in Cities In-Person BerlinAndrea Ferret-Lambert • OFB Etno-BioLab: Participatory design of intercultural environmental educational projects In-Person BerlinNicole Maria Heise Vigil Pollinator Pathways In-Person BerlinCarlotta James

12:45 EDT

OPTIONAL: Happa Farm to Table Dinner TBA

14:00 EDT

Short Film Program 3 – Radical Communication In-Person BerlinRobin.Lasser • Carmen Bouyer • Patrick Lydon

16:00 EDT

Short Film Program 4 – Radical Solutions In-Person BerlinCarmen Bouyer • Jamie Chan • Patrick Lydon • Patricia Monteiro • iki nakagawa

03:00 EDT

Envisioning the City of 2100 - AI Future Booth In-Person BerlinEmma Defty • Brady Kuehl • Sebastian Plate From Tradition to Prohibition: A Film and Discussion on Plants, Culture, and Society In-Person BerlinDaniel Rodríguez Seeding Bad Seeds In-Person BerlinGabino Carballo • Gabino Carballo [Oika Part II] Extending Ecology: An Oika Project for Personal and Planetary Prosperity In-Person BerlinRich Blundell • Rita Leduc Bridging Worlds: Counteracting the extinction of nature experiences through digital engagement In-Person BerlinFulvia Calcagni • Xueyuan Liang • Johannes Langemeyer • Fulvia Calcagni • Johannes Langemeyer • Xueyuan Liang Ethical Storytelling + Community Gardens In-Person BerlinTamara Becerra Valdez • Yaritza Guillen • Yaritza Guillen • Tamara Becerra Valdez Intervening in the urban metabolism - exploring tensions between efficiency, equity and liveability In-Person BerlinFunmi Adeniyi • Paul Currie • Jokudu Guya • Funmi Adeniyi • Paul Currie • Jokudu Guya • ICLEI River connectivity and pathways to nature-based transformations In-Person BerlinMandy Kuhn • Nancy Grimm • Nancy Grimm • Mandy Kuhn • NATURA Up and Down the River In-Person BerlinJuan Peña • Artur Sgambatti Monteiro • Natalia Burgos • Natalia Burgos • Artur Sgambatti Monteiro • Juan Peña Wild Spaces in Cities: worries, weeds, or welcome? In-Person BerlinMarcus Collier Developing your GID lens - Gender, Inclusion and Diversity in action! In-Person BerlinAdriana Duarte • ICLEI Greenprints for resilient, biodiverse and healthy communities In-Person BerlinRob McDonald • Liz O'Donoghue • Kierstyn Cox • Liz O'Donoghue • Christianah Oyenuga • Carrie Schloss • The Nature Conservancy Werde Green-Fluencer*in – Im Dialog mit deinen Mitmenschen / Become a Green-Fluencer - In dialogue with your fellows In-Person BerlinAnne Sebald

05:00 EDT

Alternative food imaginaries In-Person BerlinCarla Rangel • Chiara Sgaramella Natural vs. Oppressive Systems thru Resilient Design In-Person BerlinToni Anderson • Toni Anderson Becoming ready for a future within the climate crisis In-Person BerlinRicardo Silva • Ricardo Silva Building community through participatory action research In-Person BerlinJosefina Cortés • Lotte Dijkstra • Amber Grant • Daniel Sax Itree Eco adapted to Guatemala In-Person BerlinLucrecia Masaya Myers • Lucrecia Masaya Myers People-centered approach for nature-sensitive placemaking in African cities: leading from ground up In-Person BerlinBosibori Barake • Franklin Kirimi • Bongiwe Simka • Bosibori Barake • Franklin Kirimi • Bongiwe Simka Rewilding cities to remember we are one with nature In-Person BerlinTahia Devisscher • Damien Norris Rewilding the senses In-Person BerlinElliott Maltby • Elliott Maltby Roots grow in Silence In-Person BerlinValerie Voggenreiter • Valerie Voggenreiter Sharing Experiences about Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in Small and Medium Islands In-Person BerlinMario Balzan • Mario Balzan Transforming Car Culture In-Person BerlinLinda M Wysong • Linda M Wysong Demystifying Systems Thinking for Complex Urban Challenges In-Person BerlinAnya Low • Anya Low Evaluating nature in cities: a beginner’s guide to ecosystem service modelling In-Person BerlinEmma Ramsay • Emma Ramsay • Nanyang Technological University Urban Green Infrastructure Walk Shop In-Person BerlinSean Vrielink • Sean Vrielink

06:30 EDT

LUNCH catered by Roots Radicals TBA

08:00 EDT

Berlin Plenary 4 In-Person BerlinCharles Karangwa • Ferdinand Ludwig

10:00 EDT

Berlin Plenary 5 In-Person BerlinErika Svendsen • Prof. Johannes Vogel, Ph.D.

11:00 EDT

Short Film Program 5 – Radical Connections In-Person BerlinCarmen Bouyer • City as Living Laboratory • Patrick Lydon • Anna Jane McIntyre • Brad Muirhead

12:00 EDT

Festival Party TBA

12:45 EDT

OPTIONAL: Michelberger Hotel Farm to Table Dinner TBA

15:00 EDT

Global to Local Workshop: Jumpstart the Creation of a Frameworks Guide for Practitioners In-Person BerlinLaura Costadone • Jennifer Rae Pierce

03:00 EDT

"Fluss Lauf" - A guided walk alongside the Spree Canal & through the Fluss Bad Berlin project area In-Person BerlinJan Edler • Tim Edler • Bianca Ringwald A tour of diverse urban natures in Berlin In-Person BerlinFerne Edwards Art, Insight, Action: Exploring nature-themed murals in the heart of Berlin In-Person BerlinMilena Arias-Schreiber • Rihards Bražinskis • Marta Dieviņa • Embla Ekström • Ignacio Gianelli • Marien Helmus • Arne Kinds • Sophia Kochalski • Natali Lazzari • Ludovica Montecchio • Baiba Prūse • Svea Rogge • Katina Roumbedakis • Anna Stolyarova • Tanja Straka • Geertje Tijsma • Sebastian Villasante Berlin blüht auf! Wildbienentour durch die Hauptstadt. In-Person BerlinSophie Lokatis • Anja Proske • Frederik Rothe • Deutsche Wildtier Stiftung Following historical tracks to new urban wilderness In-Person BerlinMaud Bernard-Verdier Gardens tour In-Person BerlinVal Koščak Mitrović Grazing for Better Grasslands...in a Stadium In-Person BerlinJamie Chan • The Nature Conservancy Mycohackers: Fungi for transformations In-Person BerlinMelissa Ingaruca • Alessandro Volpato Prinzessinnengarten Kollektiv - a community garden meets a cemetery In-Person Berlin Stories from the Underground In-Person BerlinJaime Jackson Tracing back Grass Snakes In-Person BerlinFrederic Griesbaum • Korbinian Pacher • Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Urban ecological guided tour at Tempelhofer Feld In-Person BerlinLeonie Rhode What if…? a Transdisciplinary Discourse on the future of healthy, green cities In-Person BerlinAletta Bonn • Robert Köpke • Lucy Norris