Name: Berlin Plenary 1
Start: 2024-06-04T03:00:00-0400
End: 2024-06-04T04:30:00-0400

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Welcome to the Nature of Cities Festival 2024! A gathering to get inspired, to learn, to present, collaborate, or to meet hundreds of new best friends and urban nature co-conspirators. The Berlin segment is an all-inclusive multi-day experience featuring field-trips, in person talks, workshops, art interventions, a film festival, Farm-to-Table dinners, various opportunities for socializing, and much more. All of it takes place at the Atelier Gardens venue, and various other locations around Berlin.

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Berlin Plenary 1

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Theatre: I remember when I was a tree

Keynote: Theresa Williamson: Sustainable Favelas: The Key to Climate Justice and Thriving Cities?

Short talk: Benjamin Kafka: An introduction to Atelier Gardens

Keynote: Britta Behrendt
City of Berlin, State Secretary for Climate Protection and the Environment
“Welcome to Berlin, a hotspot of biodiversity and societal engagement”

Dialogue: Sustainability, Community, Beauty: Where can the New European Bauhaus approach in the European Commission take us?
Daniela Rizzi, Carmen Bouyer, Marthe Derkzen, Kim Mortega

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Britta Behrendt

State Secretary Climate and Environmental Protection, Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, City of Berlin

Britta Behrendt has been State Secretary at the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate and Environmental Protection since 2023 and is responsible for climate and environmental protection. Her work focusses on a wider range of topics such biodiversity, species protection... Read More →

Daniela Rizzi

Senior Expert for Nature-based Solutions, ICLEI Europe

Senior Expert on Biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions. Architect and Urban Planner (University of São Paulo) with a doctoral degree in Landscape Planning (Technical University of Munich). Licensed by the Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urbanism. UNEP GEO-7 Expert Peer Reviewer... Read More →

Kim Mortega

Scientist, Museum of Natural History, Berlin

Dr Kim Mortega is a scientist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Her interdisciplinary work focusses on research, environmental education and science communication for biodiversity. The current project ‘Understanding biodiversity – explore and experience nature’ (Vielfalt... Read More →

Marthe Derkzen

Wageningen University & Research

Marthe Derkzen is a researcher and lecturer with the Health and Society group of Wageningen University & Research. She studies urban nature from a social justice perspective with an interest in participatory greening, climate adaptation, local food, healthy neighborhoods and stewardship... Read More →

Theresa Williamson, Ph.D

Director of Catalytic Communities

Theresa Williamson, Ph.D. is a city planner, community organizer, environmentalist and founding executive director of Catalytic Communities, an award-winning NGO providing strategic support to Rio de Janeiro’s favelas since 2000. She is an advocate for the recognition of favelas... Read More →

Artists

Carmen Bouyer

Arts Co-Director, The Nature of Cities

Hello, I am an artist based in Paris and art curator at The Nature of Cities. I am passionate by all the cultural ways that strengthen our relationships with each other as humans across variety of cultures and practices, as well as with wide diversity of non-human life forms, especially... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 03:00 - 04:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin

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