We will facilitate a dynamic exchange between participants from diverse backgrounds such as artists, researchers, and municipal urban planners to explore how we can benefit from working with each other and in turn make nature-based interventions the best they can be for as many citizens as possible.
Participants will identify potential hurdles to consider before developing a possible co-creation process in a given urban setting and with certain set of objectives. They will enrich developing this process by contributing their diverse expertise and skills from their work and cultural backgrounds.
The session will also showcase real-life approaches of co-creating nature-based interventions from the cities of Munich and Leuven, who are partners in the EU-funded projects VARCITIES and JUSTNature.
Stories from the Underground
Stories from the Underground brings ethnobotanical and botanical researchers, curators and artists together from the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, the University of Amsterdam, CDE and Kulturschöpfer e.V. Berlin, a non-profit gallery and cultural hub that focuses on bringing together art, business, and social issues.
You are welcome to join us for our TNOC field trip based at Kulturschöpfer e.V. and a local park in Friedrichshain. One of Berlin's most cultural areas, Friedrichshain is home to numerous artist, design and media companies. Known for its many bars, clubs, pubs, and cafés, concentrated in the vicinity of Simon-Dach-Straße and Boxhagener Platz. There were numerous squats in Friedrichshain, with many in and around Rigaer Straße, Mainzer Straße and Scharnweberstraße. Kulturschöpfer e.V. is a non-profit artist-led association that focuses on bringing together art, business, and social issues in one space founded in 2013.
This Biophilic city art and science exploration of what is underneath Friedrichshain in Berlin, linking nature and deep time. Drawing on our TNOC virtual Signs of the Underground event, it is an iopportunity for you to explore the space between reality and dream as deep nature time. You will be invited to actively co-produce your creative responses at GreenHill Gallery and in the local park to discover what underground city nature feels like with scientists and artists.
Baiba Pruse
Baiba's is based at the University of Amsterdam, her work as an ethnobotanist is linked to local ecological knowledge regarding wild plant uses and citizen engagement in environmental change observation. She is strongly supporting the research strategy of transdisciplinary and collaborative work with artists.
Poppy Flint
Poppy is currently working on ‘Underfoot’, a perception-shifting installation that quite literally shines a light on the humble root system and creates a poignant setting to encounter stories and questions about human’s relationship with nature. She is an educator, artist, and a stubborn optimist.
poppyflint.com/underfoot/
Justin Stewart
Justin is an evolutionary ecologist investigating plant-microbial symbiosis. Currently, their work focuses on using mapping mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis from individual root systems up to global biodiversity maps. They are a PhD Candidate Data Ecologist at VU Amsterdam and SPUN. The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks
Christopher Elmerick.
Director and cultural curator at Greenhill gallery kulturschoepfer Berlin. Kulturschöpfer e.V. is a non-profit association that has been concentrating since 2013 on bringing together the fields of art, business and social affairs in one space. People from Berlin and all over the world come here to get involved, create something together and inspire each other. In this way, we want to have a positive influence on the city of Berlin and our neighbourhood. Christopher has a passion to see all of culture holistically in all of its diversity by engaging, creating, and inspiring one another in community towards positive change.
Artist Jaime Jackson will contribute to the event on-line, he is a biophilic (love of nature) socially engaged and studio-based artist. Currently artist producer for the Arts Council England funded The Sign of the Underground,
This is a Culture Declares Emergency Birmingham Hub Offer event for The Nature Of Cities Festival, part of an Arts Council England funded Herefordshire New Leaf commissioning program. Part of the Sign of the Underground program, an artist and scientist-led gathering of 3 areas of subterranean city tendrils which includes:
