TNOC Festival 2024

As human beings, we stand out in our capacity to imagine and tell stories of the future; when enough of us believe in an idea and act on it, it naturally becomes our reality.  Can we make visible the process in which we, as humans, co-create realities by weaving space, time, and imagination to create more Aliveness in our cities? In this session, we enter a future-making process, where we co-design and sense into pathways that could inspire 10,000 cities worldwide to “human well” together for aliveness.

Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for the making of inclusive and green cities requires better understandings of the challenges and opportunities on the way. This starts with consolidating knowledge on what works and what does not. NATURA’s “Global Roadmap for urban NBS” initiative brings together experts who have been synthesizing existing evidence of successes and barriers of NBS from both research and practice, for each of the 7 world regions (North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, The Middle East and North Africa, Africa, Asia and Oceania).

Of course, anyone can buy paint full of heavy metals and other synthetic dyes in plastic packaging, but you can also learn to take care of the environment and make your own colours from organic materials. Learn an ancestral process that you'll use for the rest of your life, every colours are at your disposal, and if you're missing one, just plant it!