TNOC Festival 2024: Full Schedule

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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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VENUE ADDRESS:
Oberlandstraße 26-35, 12099 Berlin

17:00 EDT

More than Weeds

Urban botany themed-poetry session interspersing readings with activities to support and encourage the creation of poems by attendees. My poetry explores plant origins and history, the nature of migration and how what is categorised as weed or flower has something powerful to say about boundaries, borders, and belonging. I will also be joined by poet Suzannah Evans and public speaker Mike Weston.
Suzannah Evans is a poet, editor and tutor based in Sheffield, with collections Near Future (2018) and Space Baby (2022) published by Nine Arches Press. She has a pamphlet forthcoming with Bad Betty Press this year, exploring environmental themese. https://suzannahevans.org/
Mike Weston has worked in green energy development. He is active and award winning Toastmaster, interested in public speaking, performance, podcasting and blogwriting.

Virtual Speakers

L Kiew

Poet

A chinese-malaysian living in London, I earn my living as a charity sector leader and an accountant. I hold a MSc in Creative Writing and Literary Studies from Edinburgh University. My debut collection, More than Weeds, was published in February 2023 with Nine Arches Press.My poetry... Read More →

Mike Weston

Wednesday April 17, 2024 17:00 - 18:30 EDT
Virtual

Art-centered seed and skills session

City Berlin, London
Country Germany, United Kingdom
Language English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Affiliation Independent
Room Number 2

11:00 EDT

Ciudad Botánica

Ciudad Botánica seeks to vindicate the ruderal plants that grow spontaneously in the city, finding vital spaces in places such as sidewalks, walls, slits, and cracks on the pavement. With this project we aim to focus on these discreet protagonists of urban biodiversity, telling their stories and highlighting their ecological importance and potential applications

Virtual Speakers

Samuel Serna-Wills

Fundación Cerros de Bogotá

Alejandra Castiblanco-Valbuena

Thursday April 18, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 EDT
Virtual

Virtual field-trip session

City Toronto, Bogotá
Country Canada, Colombia
Language English, Spanish
Affiliation University of Toronto, Independent
Room Number 14

11:00 EDT

Wetland Shadows

Two artists lead a nighttime walk through a waterfront park and salt marsh in New York City, exploring their public art project Wetland Shadows, where they are projecting videos onto the park's new surfaces, tracing out its ecological, industrial, and artistic history over the past 100 years.

Virtual Speakers

Nathan Kensinger

Nathan Kensinger is an artist, filmmaker, and journalist whose work explores hidden urban landscapes, post-industrial ecologies, forgotten waterways, environmental contamination, and coastal communities endangered by sea level rise and climate change. His work encompasses photography... Read More →

Nate Dorr

Filmmaker

Nate Dorr is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker whose work investigates the margins of the urban environment. He's a lapsed neuroscientist, occassional film curator, and aspiring photochemist, and perpetual wanderer of post-industrial marshlands and brownfield beaches. His films have shown... Read More →

Thursday April 18, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 EDT
Virtual

Virtual field-trip session

City New York City
Country United States
Language English
Affiliation Independent
Room Number 10

09:00 EDT

Ushuaia Botanical Garden

A field trip to Ushuaia Botanical Garden. We will walk along the Garden's interpretation trail to enjoy the views and get to know about the southernmost forest in the planet.

Virtual Speakers

Estela Caipillan

President, Asociación Nuria Tierra del Fuego

Alejandra Toronchik

Sol Rodriguez

Monday April 22, 2024 09:00 - 10:00 EDT
Virtual

Virtual field-trip session

City Ushuaia
Country Argentina
Language Spanish, English
Affiliation Independent
Room Number 2

09:00 EDT

Silent Tea Meditation

Tea meditation offers the chance to re-connect with your self, others and All through the medicine of Tea and Silence. Sit with us in person in our private tearooml room to listen to the pulse of the Universe that resonates within you. This tradition, formulated from ancient Chinese rituals of Tea aims to make Tea accessible and universal, including everybody that feels a resonance with the Way of Tea.

Virtual Speakers

GGrippo

There’s a thread that connect all the artistic production that I embark on, there’s a sense of direction that has always guided my work and there’s a way of approaching the materials that always has fascinated and formatted my practice.I have worked throughout many years across... Read More →

Wednesday April 24, 2024 09:00 - 10:30 EDT
Virtual

Skills session

City NYC
Country USA
Language English
Affiliation Independent
Room Number 12

11:00 EDT

Coming Full Circle: From Access to Ownership

Urban Community AgriNomics (UCAN), a minority founded and led nonprofit, has restored a former plantation into a vibrant agriculture hub that teaches residents to grow their own vegetables for better health and well-being. Access has morphed into ownership of 176 acres of land with restored buildings, community and youth gardens, trails, and more, through a process of community engagement.

Virtual Speakers

Delphine Sellars

Wednesday April 24, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 EDT
Virtual

Skills session

City Durham
Country United States
Language English
Affiliation Independent
Room Number 9

11:00 EDT

¿Qué rol tiene la escucha empática y la expresión honesta en contribuir a ciudades más verdes?

Recibir la expresión honesta de alguien, escuchar más allá de sus palabras, conectar con sus emociones y necesidades, y hacer lo mismo en nuestro interior, es una habilidad que tenemos de forma innata y que también podemos cultivar. Únanse a nosotras para aprender y practicar algunas herramientas para andar este camino.

Virtual Speakers

Ángela Marcela Hernández

Co-Creators, La Pecera de CNV

Hi, we are Mar & Gio. Together we hold space for having conversations using Nonviolent Communication. Industrial Engineer and Neuro Scientist. We believe in the power of empathic listening and honest expressions as tools for connecting and caring for the needs of all beings.I, Mar... Read More →

Friday April 26, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 EDT
Virtual

Skills session

City Bogotá
Country Colombia
Language Spanish
Affiliation Independent
Room Number 16

10:00 EDT

Textile Islands: Weaving Geopolitics and Social Narratives in African Port-Cities

Port-Cities on the African continent holds expansive yet contentious narratives. Speaking to this discourse, our project seeks to use art to host communal knowledge exchanges executed through group weaving. Thereafter, this fabric (memory cloth), would be displayed within different aquatic contexts: beaches, harbours, and tidal pools. This intervention highlights themes of relationality, geopolitics and hydrocommons, encouraging cross-cultural exchanges in Africa.

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Seth Kriger

Cultural worker, Curator and Urban researcher

Seth Kriger, Born and raised in Cape Town, graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts Triple majoring in Art History, English Literature, and Film and Television Studies. Following that, he continued and graduated from the Honours Programme in Curatorship... Read More →

Vida Madighi-Oghu

Vida is an interdisciplinary researcher and storyteller who explores African intersectionality and touch points for knowledge exchange. Her multicultural upbringing, born in Nigeria and raised in Angola and South Africa, shapes her thinking. Vida aims to connect culture with creative... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 10:00 - 11:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin

Art-centered seed and skills session

City Cape Town
Country South Africa
Language English
Affiliation Independent
Room Number The Cloud House

05:00 EDT

Alternative food imaginaries

What alternative food imaginaries can we create for urban life in the context of the climate crisis? How can we expand our relationship with food systems beyond consumer-product relations? How can cultural practices contribute to the visualization and protection of biodiversity and knowledge systems connected to food?
In this session, we will collectively explore food practices questioning the rural/urban divide and investigate what small urban productions can teach us about our cities. To do so, we will meet with small-scale local honey producer Aurelian Mamitza, neighbour of the Atelier Gardens.
Meeting point: we will be meeting at the entrance of the Atelier Gardens before heading off just across the street to join Aurelian and his beehives.

Photo credit: Miguel Lorenzo

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Carla Rangel

Head of Public Programs and Institutional Development, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art

Chiara Sgaramella

Universitat Politècnica de València

Wednesday June 5, 2024 05:00 - 06:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin

Art-centered seed and skills session

City Montreal
Country Canada
Language English, Spanish
Affiliation Independent
Room Number The Cloud House

05:00 EDT

Women placing biophilia at the heart of 21st century urbanism

This session explores the role of women in placing biophilia at the heart of 21st century urbanism by fostering lively green arteries coursing through our cities and providing a continuous experience for residents of all ages – from child to adulthood – to nurture love for living things; and for other living things to move through urban landscapes more freely.

Berlin (in person) Speakers

May East

Director of Cities, UN House Scotland

I am an international urbanist specialised in nature-positive and gender-sensitive cities. I work regeneratively with 20-minutes neighbourhoods, mining cities and informal settlements in both global north and south. My recently launched book What if Women Designed the City? emerged... Read More →

Wednesday June 5, 2024 05:00 - 06:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin

Seed session

City Edinburgh
Country UK/ Brazil
Language English
Affiliation Independent
Room Number Picnic - Biodiversity Plaza

08:00 EDT

Dérives of migrant landscapes: Meeting points between species and places

Through migrant movements, human and non-human elements are set in motion, transforming the landscape and the subjective readings we make of it.
From the concept of "urban dérive", the meeting aims to capture and reimagine the natural and urban elements that migrants highlight of the city they inhabit (or inhabited) in dialogue with their landscapes of origin

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Francesca Ceola

Laura Rozas Letelier

Lina Maria Hoyos Rojas

PhD candidate, Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture

I have background in Anthropology and Master Degree in Urbanism and Spatial Planning. Currently is a PhD candidate in Territorial Engineering and Land Planning at the Instituto Superior Técnico and integrates the Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture -CiTUA... Read More →

Pablo Quiroga Devia

Wednesday June 5, 2024 08:00 - 09:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin

Seed session

City Lisbon
Country Portugal
Language English, Spanish
Affiliation Center for Innovation in Territory, University of Lisbon; Independent, Urbanism and Architecture
Room Number The Nightingale House - Room 3

10:00 EDT

Let's Solve a Mystery! A Play-Based Approach to Environmental Education

You’re invited to come solve a mystery! Join Applied Theater practitioner Ania Upstill for an engaging and mysterious environmental education experience. Based on their Masters thesis project with the Urban Field Station NYC, this session invites attendees to experience a sample session and then brainstorm how to build their own mystery to engage participants in a play-based approach to environmental education and advocacy.

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Ania Upstill

GenderWise

Ania (they/them) is a queer and trans performer, theatre maker, teaching artist and award-winning clown. A graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (Professional Training Program), Ania’s recent work celebrates LGBTQIA+ artists with a focus on gender... Read More →

Wednesday June 5, 2024 10:00 - 11:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin

Seed session

City New York City
Country USA, United States
Language English
Affiliation Independent
Room Number Coworking - 2

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