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

09:00 EDT

Reforest Fest Virtual Field Trip

Reforest Fest is an annual restoration celebration that brings people together to plant thousands of trees while enjoying a celebration like no other. Reforestation meets creativity and participation amidst an array of entertainment and environmental education options. This virtual field trip will demonstrate how entertainment and restoration can work hand-in-hand, making environmentalism fun and engaging.

Virtual Speakers

Misha Teasdale

Director, Greenpop Foundation

Misha Teasdale (Born 1982) is a South African-born environment and social change activist who is the current director of the Greenpop Foundation. Teasdale co-founded the foundation in 2010 with a group of friends, Greenpop is a tree planting organization on a mission to restore degraded... Read More →

Zoë Gauld-Angelucci

Programme Director, The Greenpop Foundation

I am currently the Programme Director at The Greenpop Foundation, an award-winning environmental non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa. My work includes overseeing urban greening, forest restoration, food gardening and environmental awareness projects across four... Read More →

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

Virtual field-trip session

City Cape Town
Country South Africa
Language English
Affiliation The Greenpop Foundation
Room Number 18

05:00 EDT

Learning from Nature Based Solutions in African Cities

Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) offer opportunities to solve critical challenges in African cities. These solutions require continuous learning between research-based and on the ground actions. NATURA’s “Global Roadmap for urban NBS” initiative is identifying and comparing current research and practice of urban NBS. The Africa team is identifying gaps, opportunities and highlighting urban NBS in practice. This session will:
- Provide findings of NBS in African cities and identify trends
- Discuss the challenges of this in research and on the ground
- Seek input to see if these findings are valid and align with individual experiences

Virtual Speakers

Pippin Anderson

Professor, University of Cape Town

Pippin Anderson, a lecturer at the University of Cape Town, is an African urban ecologist who enjoys the untidiness of cities where society and nature must thrive together.

Inca Horn

Sponsors and Partners

NATURA

Thursday April 25, 2024 05:00 - 06:30 EDT
Virtual

Seed session

City Cape Town
Country South Africa
Language English
Affiliation NATURA - The New School
Room Number 18

05:00 EDT

Urban Heritage Trees: Bridging Nature and Culture in Cities

Trees with outstanding traits remain objects of human fascination. Distinguished by their extraordinary appearance, age, historical associations, or spiritual significance, they constitute important ecological assets meriting special recognition and protection. To support the identification, management and protection of these trees, new international standards are required. To unlock their potential, these trees’ survival must be secured, and their stories widely told.

Virtual Speakers

Stefania Romano

Coordinator, Transformative Urban Nature Action, UNECE

With an extended experience in environmental international affairs, spanning from Central Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, the Gulf Countries, Brazil, and South Africa, I have worked for the Italian Ministry of the Environment, seconded to international organisations, such... Read More →

Zoë Gauld-Angelucci

Programme Director, The Greenpop Foundation

Thursday April 25, 2024 05:00 - 06:30 EDT
Virtual

Seed session

City Cape Town
Country South Africa
Language English
Affiliation The Greenpop Foundation, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), ICLEI Africa, Earthwatch
Room Number 11

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

10:00 EDT

Creative Catalysts: Exploring Alternative Knowledge Forms to Inspire Action for Nature

Join us on a virtual journey to explore the "Preserve, Conserve & Tinker" exhibition, learning from the methods, engagements, objectives and outcomes. Hear from the communities, cities and stakeholders involved in this latest phase of the UNA Resilience project, and explore ideas of using creative elements and alternative knowledge forms to appeal to emotion, inspiring agency and catalysing action for sustainability.

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Ernita Van Wyk

Paul Currie

Ruby Schalit

Sponsors and Partners

ICLEI

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

Art-centered seed and skills session

City Cape Town
Country South Africa
Language English
Affiliation ICLEI Africa
Room Number The Nightingale House - Room 3

03:00 EDT

Intervening in the urban metabolism - exploring tensions between efficiency, equity and liveability

Join us to explore the resource flows of several cities and work in teams to make them more environmentally sustainable, inclusive and resilient. Most importantly, can we make the infrastructures and resources work for all people? We look forward to debating how different interventions may prioritise singular or plural outcomes, and, in the process, learning more about how the concept of urban metabolism can support better city planning and development.

Virtual Speakers

Funmi Adeniyi

Manager, Rights Based Approaches, ICLEI AFRICA

Funmi, a passionate advocate for human-centric development, sees the world through the lens of its people. With a Ph.D. in Law specializing in Human Rights Protection, her journey spans over a decade across private, public, and academic sectors. She intricately weaves her expertise... Read More →

City Cape Town
Country South Africa
Language English
Affiliation ICLEI Africa
Room Number The Nightingale House - Room 3

TNOC Festival 2024

09:00 EDT

Misha Teasdale

Zoë Gauld-Angelucci

05:00 EDT

Pippin Anderson

Inca Horn

NATURA

05:00 EDT

Stefania Romano

Zoë Gauld-Angelucci

10:00 EDT

Seth Kriger

Vida Madighi-Oghu

10:00 EDT

Ernita Van Wyk

Paul Currie

Ruby Schalit

ICLEI

03:00 EDT

Funmi Adeniyi

Paul Currie

Jokudu Guya

Funmi Adeniyi

Paul Currie

Jokudu Guya

ICLEI

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