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

Towards a global roadmap for urban nature-based solutions

Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for the making of inclusive and green cities requires better understandings of the challenges and opportunities on the way. This starts with consolidating knowledge on what works and what does not. NATURA’s “Global Roadmap for urban NBS” initiative brings together experts who have been synthesizing existing evidence of successes and barriers of NBS from both research and practice, for each of the 7 world regions (North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, The Middle East and North Africa, Africa, Asia and Oceania).

Virtual Speakers

Erich Wolff

Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

Erich Wolff (he/him) is an interdisciplinary researcher and teacher working in Singapore, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia and Thailand. His work delves into citizen science, nature-based solutions and flood risk reduction. His publications examine the potential of citizen science and... Read More →

Loan Diep

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NATURA

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Natalie Pierson

Lab Manager, Urban Systems Lab

Timon McPhearson

Yeowon Kim

Assistant Professor, Korea University

Sponsors and Partners

NATURA

Monday April 22, 2024 09:00 - 10:30 EDT
Virtual

Skills session

City New York
Country United States
Language English, Multilingual
Affiliation NATURA
Room Number 14

11:00 EDT

Optimistic Writing Workshop

Optimistic writing is a branch of autobiographical writing that emphasizes the beauty we experience in our daily lives, and the beauty of our history.
Created by Rossana Bruzzone in 2012, optimistic writing is now recognized as a valuable tool for promoting mental health.
No special writing skills are required. During the workshops, writing, like any art form, is at the service of well-being.

Virtual Speakers

Rossana Bruzzone

director, Montréal la plus heureuse

I'm the director and founder of no-profit Montréal la plus heureuse, whose mission is to spread joy in the media and at events.In Italy, where I come from, I created optimistic writing. In Quebec, I offer intergenerational workshops and training in optimistic writing, and I see the... Read More →

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

Skills session

City Montreal
Country Canada
Language Multilingual
Affiliation Neige en couleur (sole proprietorship)
Room Number 1

05:00 EDT

PO.SI.TI.VE News Now!

We will practice and present Image Theatre and Social Presencing Theatre as embodied action research methods of social fields to explore the concept of PO.SI.TI.VE news with the participation of Living Cities Earth (https://www.livingcities.earth/) :

PO - People-Planet Oriented (Stories)

SI - Socially Innovative (Practices)

TI - Transformative Ideas (In Action)

VE - Vividly Engaging (Participation)

Join us in an interactive hybrid journey to bring eco-social transformation to 10,000 cities worldwide.

Virtual Speakers

Uri Noy Meir

Sponsors and Partners

Living Cities Earth

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

Skills session

City Global
Country Global
Language Multilingual, English
Affiliation Living Cities Earth
Room Number 2

05:00 EDT

5D Mapping the Future Together

As human beings, we stand out in our capacity to imagine and tell stories of the future; when enough of us believe in an idea and act on it, it naturally becomes our reality. Can we make visible the process in which we, as humans, co-create realities by weaving space, time, and imagination to create more Aliveness in our cities? In this session, we enter a future-making process, where we co-design and sense into pathways that could inspire 10,000 cities worldwide to “human well” together for aliveness.

Moderators

Uri Noy Meir

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Ferial Puren

Lev Gordon

Marilyn Hamilton

Marina Demchenko

Uri Noy Meir

CEO, Bama Maps

Father, Artist, and Founder. I cultivate and design learning spaces inspired by nature and empowered by play.

Sponsors and Partners

Living Cities Earth

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

Seed session

City Global
Country Global
Language English, Multilingual
Affiliation Living Cities Earth
Room Number TON 1 - RISER 2

05:00 EDT

Towards a global roadmap for urban nature-based solutions

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Erich Wolff

Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

Loan Diep

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NATURA

Natalie Pierson

Lab Manager, Urban Systems Lab

Timon McPhearson

Yeowon Kim

Assistant Professor, Korea University

Sponsors and Partners

NATURA

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

Skills session

City New York
Country United States
Language English, Multilingual
Affiliation NATURA
Room Number The Plane tree house - Room 4

10:00 EDT

DIY with DYE plants

Of course, anyone can buy paint full of heavy metals and other synthetic dyes in plastic packaging, but you can also learn to take care of the environment and make your own colours from organic materials. Learn an ancestral process that you'll use for the rest of your life, every colours are at your disposal, and if you're missing one, just plant it!

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Anne-Charlotte Viriot

Head of educational offerings, Flouq

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

Art-centered seed and skills session

City berlin
Country Germany
Language English, French, German, Multilingual
Affiliation Urbaner wald garten
Room Number The Plane Tree House - Room 4

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