TNOC Festival 2024: Full Schedule

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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09:00 EDT

Plenary 8

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Art Performance : "Seen" performed by Natasha "Courage" Bacchus, filmed by Anna Jane McIntyre

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

Announcement : RISE Africa

Dialogue : Placemaking: How can we support he contributions of Stewardship, care and belonging to urban greening
with : Mary Rowe (Toronto), Ibrahim Wallee (Accra), Diana Wiesner (Bogotá), David Simon (London)

Keynote: Lindsay Campbell : Stewardship science: A Story in Three Acts

Virtual Speakers

Lindsay Campbell

Research Social Scientist, USDA Forest Service

My research explores the dynamics of civic stewardship, environmental governance, and sustainability policymaking--with a particular emphasis on issues of social and environmental justice. I create transdisciplinary spaces of collaboration between land managers, scientists, artists... Read More →

Ibrahim Wallee

Executive Director, CR-Network Ghana

Administrator, development communication specialist, environmental activist and sustainable development advocate with over 20 years of working experience, based in Accra, Ghana.

Mary W. Rowe

President, CEO, Canadian Urban Institute

Mary is President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute (www.canurb.org). Animpassioned civic leader with diverse experience in the business, government, not-for-profitand philanthropy sectors in Canada and the US for over 30 years, Mary has been a steadyadvocate and champion for... Read More →

Diana Wiesner

Principal, Arquitectura y Paisaje - Fundación Cerros de Bogotá

Delicate activist at Cerros de Bogotá (www.cerrosdebogota.org), urban ecology designer, Pablo and Gabriela´s mother. Goat cheese producer. Love to dance salsa.Bogotá-based activist, a leader in socio-ecological issues, architect, and designer renowned for her designs in urban... 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 →

David Simon

Professor of Development Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London

David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published extensively on many dimensions of urbanisation and urbanism, the development-environment interface, and the interrelationships between theory, policy and practice. From 2014-19... Read More →

Artists

Anna Jane McIntyre

Artist & Educator, The Black Studies Podcast

I am a Black visual artist with a practice combining drawing, installation, printmaking, costume, storytelling, performance and micro-activism. My projects explore and celebrate the ways in which people decipher experience, belonging, create and maintain culture and senses of self... Read More →

Friday April 26, 2024 09:00 - 10:30 EDT
Virtual

Plenary

03:00 EDT

Berlin Plenary 1

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

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

Plenary

05:00 EDT

Berlin Plenary 2

Keynote: Ana López Ortego: La Comunidad de la pala: experimental rural-urban governance in Bogotá

Short Talk: Miriam Millán: An introduction to Roots Radicals, our zero-waste caterer

Keynote: Neil DeWet: Biophilic Public Health - transforming the (he)art and science of public health practice

Fiction: Ania Upstill, a reading from Storie of the Nature of Cities: "Monkey Business"

Keynote: Ferdinand Ludwig: Architecture as Trees

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Ana López Ortego

Co-founder and co-director of the Colombian collective Arquitectura Expandida, Arquitectura Expandida collective

Ana Lopez Ortego is an architect and PhD in territorial history. She is co-founder and co-director of the Colombian collective Arquitectura Expandida, which works, since 2010, exploring experimental urban governance processes at the intersection between art, activism, grassroots and... Read More →

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 →

Ferdinand Ludwig

Professor, TUM School of Engineering and Design

Professor Ludwig’s research is focused on architectural concepts in which plants play a central role. Integrating plants – both functionally and creatively – into construction designs not only provides answers to some of today’s most pressing ecological issues, such as the... Read More →

Neil de Wet

Public Health Medicine Physician from Aotearoa New Zealand

Dr Neil de Wet is a Public Health Medicine Physician from Aotearoa New Zealand. He has a medical,environmental, and public health career spanning 30 years of practice and is currently the MedicalOfficer of Health for the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island. With... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 05:00 - 06:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin

Plenary