TNOC Festival 2024

The Kiezlabor is a tiny house for the digital and socio-ecological transformation. For eight months a year, our Kiezlabor stays in different neighborhoods, offering a diverse and participatory programme for the local community and administration, consisting of hands-on workshops, meetups and exhibitions. We present our Kiezlabor, the programme and discuss what we can learn for other contexts of regenerative city-making.


Meeting point:
Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/uzngEAnh2hfzXWCTA

At the HTW Campus in Karlshorst: 52.491845, 13.525506
It’s on Römerweg, near Treskowallee

Karlshorst
10318 Lichtenberg, Germany

N.B.: Starting time > 2 p.m. Berlin time (CET)*
What are the berries dreaming about? Walking together in the "Nasse Dreieck", a protected wild green area in Berlin Pankow, our fieldwork explores its dense ecological, sociopolitical and toxic history. Storytelling, mapping and role-playing help us cultivate close encounters with its multispecies life. Opening our senses, we engage curiously and critically with the more-than-urban ecology.
Feral Fieldwork is an applied transdisciplinary exploration of urgent social and ecological issues from an ecofeminist perspective. Initiated by Alice Cannavà, Chiara Garbellotto and Sina Ribak, it explores and tells stories about and with the urban nature of Berlin.

Meeting point:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/G1qdCdtJetveigdi6
Brehmestraße 24, 13187 Berlin, Germany

Time:
2-5 p.m. Berlin time (CET)
* if you see a different timing in the TNOC website or email messages this is due to the time zone settings of your account. You can change those settings at https://tnocfestival2024.sched.com/ in the collapse menu on the right sidebar.

Join us for a dinner & tour at moos| for engaging conversation around our learning and our vision of building a place that inspires and nourishes people.

Meeting point:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/izvbC5r8pzvnBNY18

Moosdorfstraße 7-9, 12435 Berlin, Germany

Explore the previously inaccessible grounds of the former Tegel Airport by bike - the Tegeler Stadtheide!

At special stations such as the old airport gardening with the sheep barns or the western taxiway with the heather vegetation, the Tegeler Stadtheide is examined in detail. You will discover botanical features such as spontaneous vegetation, pioneer plants as well as wild herbs and protected plants. You will also get an overview of the future landscape and nature reserve, its objectives and development processes. You will learn about the urban ecological significance of large undeveloped open spaces and their ecological interrelationships.

You are cordially invited to this exciting nature experience!

Instructions:
Please take , Bus no 109 "Urban Tech Republic", to location.

Meeting point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9C6PLwJ4E7kBeVrNA

Katja Aßmann, artistic director of Spreepark Art Space, will introduce the programme of Spreepark Art Space and give insights into the process of combining art and planning. On the tour you will learn more about the RE.USE.UM by artist Stefan Shankland – an open-air studio at Spreepark.



The RE.USE.UM is a production site and space for discourse and community at the same time. How do we manage to use fewer new resources, preserve the value of existing materials and create cycles - material as well as social? These questions are discussed and practically tested at RE.USE.UM.

For the future Spreepark, Stefan Shankland will realise with STRATAPARK two landscape sculptures and forty smaller artificial erratic blocks, which consist of mineral waste materials, won from demolition material of the park. As seating and orientation points, the waste materials are given new functions and in this way flow back into a recycling cycle. In addition to the recycling aspect, the focus is on the transformation of the material: a process in which nothing is lost, but rather each element can be charged with new meaning in a different form or put to new use. This process is central to Shankland's work and serves as a starting point for participation and educational formats on topics such as the history of the site, its geological features, or the recycling possibilities of minerals.

The RE.USE.UM as installation is a cooperation between Stefan Shankland and raumlaborberlin. Since 2023, visitors can observe the process of (re)use of mineral waste and the transformation of the material into art on site. Together with archaeologists, geologists and artists, workshops, artistic interventions and discourse formats are offered. Shankland and raumlaborberlin invite visitors to participate in the creation of STRATAPARK and to engage with the associated questions.

Instructions:
The entrance is free but participants on this field-trip will need to pay for public transit.
This session may finish early, as the tour itself only takes 1.5 hours.

Meeting point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/y5ZgeVTpFchhtUc36

Spreepark Art Space
Kiehnwerderallee 2, 12437 Berlin, Germany

This tour will take participants through cemeteries, monuments, and post-cemetery parks in four Berlin neighbourhoods. Over three hours, we will explore the landscape imaginaries of 19th century ‘rural’ cemeteries, the ‘re-wilding’ of urban spaces in the late 20th century, and the rise of ‘green death’ movements across Europe. Particular attention will be paid to the tension between memorialisation and ecology.

The tour will start at the Prinzessinnengarten Jacobi, Hermannstraße 99-105 (Neukölln), and move up through Neukölln and Kreuzberg, before ending at Silent Green Kulturquartier. A portion of the trip will be made by U-Bahn, so it's recomended you get a day ticket. The tour will include about 6 km of walking, so please wear comfy shoes and dress for the weather!

Meeting point:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1MqPhiKVQTQFHRUNA

Hermannstraße 99-105

Fees:
One way metro ticket, plus I hope to build in one or two 'comfort stops' for water, coffee, and ice cream. 

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The field trip will take place at the location Kienbergpark in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf.

Meeting point: Umweltbildungszentrum (Educational Centre) Kienbergpark, appr. 50 min travel time via train and subway from Tempelhofer Feld. Participants are kindly asked to consider this time in advance to session start at 2 p.m.

Link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ageX1j4CPyUp2Ucd6

Instructions to explain how to get to the field-trip meeting point:

Best access is from the U5 subway station “Kienberg/Garten der Welt”: cross Hellersdorfer Straße and go straight ahead along Gottfried-Funeck-Weg into the park.
Continue via the Wuhlesteg to the terrace by the pond to reach the education centre (approx. 600 m from the train station).

What if all living beings had the same political rights? If power was shared equally among all the creatures cohabiting on Earth? For an overgrown urban forest in Berlin Wedding this utopian prerogative has become the blueprint of interaction. The artists group Club Real is using the freedom of the arts to declare the overgrown forest the territory of Organisms Democracy. Democratic processes are being reenacted - with one big difference - here all living beings from soil bacteria to maple trees have the same political rights. What might this mean? How is it done? Come and find out!

We take you on a field trip into the heart of one of the most densely populated areas of Berlin. The wild overgrown forest between Osloer Street No 107 and No 108 is the location of a real time political experiment involving all species present.

Meeting point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oMjWaFvecZbk68uj9
Osloer Str. 107, 13359 Berlin, Germany

What was created at Rummelsburger Bucht is now blueprint for the entire city: Berlin is to become sponge city. This refers to a city's blue-green infrastructure to store, evaporate, infiltrate or use rainwater. We will explore how nature-based solutions can be designed, combined and what con-tribution they make to climate adaptation, water pollution control, and biodiversity of the urban environment.

The tour will take about 1.5-2 hours. As we will be outside, please remember to wear weatherproof clothing and/or sun protection. There are no public restrooms along the way

Language: German

Meeting point: Hauptstraße 4B. 10317 Berlin (near to S-Bahn Rummelsburg)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kCT6GpQaux34Tv3U7

Cemeteries are usually associated with grief but they are hotspots of urban biodiversity. At night they become dark playgrounds for nocturnal critters such as bats, hedgehogs, foxes and nightingales. With a fireplace reading and guided excursion we will embark into the ambience of the nocturnal life in Berlin’s cemetery and explore together the secret nightlife of one of these sacred places.

Where?: The meeting point is Kolonnenstraße 24-25, at the entrance of 'Zwölf-Apostel Friedhof'.

When?: 9:30pm. Please note that the meeting time has been postponed by 30 minutes to start at dusk.
The event will be in German, in case of the participation of internationals, translation to English is offered (except for the reading).

Meeting point: Kolonnenstraße 24-25, 10829 Berlin, Germany
Google link: https://g.co/kgs/b8hX6VK

During this tour, we will stroll through the project area of Fluss Bad Berlin alongside the Spree Canal in the heart of Berlin. Get to know more about the history, objectives and current challenges of this urban development project which aims on (1) preserving and extending public space(s) in the heart of Berlin (2) protecting and improving the city’s natural ressources, especially water bodies (3) and last but not least: transforming the Spree Canal into a natural swimming zone.

• Meeting point: Südliche Monbijoubrücke, Am Kupfergraben 3, 10117 Berlin (https://maps.app.goo.gl/pLmX5o6gSBteLKbA6)

To visit sites of diverse urban natures across Berlin prompting discussion between hosts, stakeholders and participants about the relationships, politics and possibilities for human/nonhuman co-existence in cities. This field trip seeks to ground and extend the urban manifesto drafted in the seed session, ‘What does a more-than-human city “look” like?’, through participation with attendees and site representatives in Berlin’s cityscape.

We will meet at the gates of Atelier Gardens at 9.30am and finish at 12 noon near UllsteinStr. there is a bus that runs to Herrmannstr. to return. The walk is around 2.5km and covers paved paths, grassy surfaces and some uneven ground. There is one place with steep steps going down, and then back up again (though this section could be skipped). There are no toilets on the route. Please dress for the weather.

The group will meet at Atelier Gardens at the Yellow Building near the coffee shop inside the yellow building.


Oberlandstraße 26-35, 12099 Berlin, Germany

Google link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CzLj2LdrSQNREMLK8



 

We explore nature-themed murals during an interactive and informative tour in one of Berlin's alternative neighborhoods. During the tour, you will spot impressive elephants, birds, dart frogs, mountain and underwater landscapes. Berlin is is one of Europe's capitals of street art and graffiti, and we picked some of the most thought-provoking for you, ranging from tourist favourites to hidden gems. Together, we ask what insights street art can give us into human-environment relationships, and when art inspires us to take action!

The meeting point (09:00am) is in front of the “Hoodie Birds” mural by Don John at the “Mehringplatz”/ corner “Friedrichstrasse”, just at one of the exits of the subway station “Hallesches Tor”:

Google link: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.499675,13.3915409,3a,75y,191.29h,99.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smBXM6fft2KXe9Qh6w5T8cQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu

What to expect? Together we walk from Kreuzberg through Gleisdreieck Park to Schöneberg. On the way we stop and spot numerous murals and graffiti, find out interesting background information and discuss and exchange ideas with each other. You don't need a ticket for public transport, but you need good shoes :-) and a desire to see Berlin, nature and art. We will take a short refreshment break in the park; the tour ends near the “Urban Nation” street art museum.

Session contributors: Anna Stolyarova, Arne Kinds, Baiba Pruse, Embla Ekstrom, Geertje Tijsma, Ignacio Gianelli, Katina Roumbedakis, Ludovica Montecchio, Marien Helmus, Marta Dievina, Milena Arias-Schreiber, Natali Lazzari, Rihards Brazinskis, Sebastian Villasante, Sophia Kochalski, Svea Rogge, Tanja Straka

329 Wildbienenarten gibt es in Berlin. Wo nisten sie, welche Blüten fliegen sie an, und wie können sie gefördert werden? Frederik Rothe und das Team von "Mehr Bienen für Berlin - Berlin blüht auf" laden ein zu einer Entdeckertour auf den Spuren der Berliner Hauptstadtwildbienen.

Meeting point: 
We meet in front of the Museum of Natural History Berlin.
Right in front of the steps.

Link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GkPhv6Y66jeADtdP8

Walk overgrown railroad tracks from Südgelände to Tempelhofer feld and greet novel, thriving post-industrial wilderness. While visiting some of my research sites, where plants evolve and invade from all over the world, you will hear tales of how post-war Berlin gave birth to new urban ecology research and how citizen grassroots movements are fighting to keep the city wild.

Meeting point:
 
We will meet on Friday at 9:00 at the Priesterweg S-bahn station (S2, S25, S26), by the entrance to the Naturpark Südgelände. Please bring change to purchase a 1 euro entrance ticket to the park (the ticket machine accept only coins). In my experience, it is likely that patrolling park rangers will want to check your tickets ;)

We will start walking around 9:20, so try to join us before that!We will first visit the Naturpark Südgelände for about an hour, and then take a break and see who wants to continue to the second part of the trip in Tempelhofer Feld, which will take another hour at least. For this we will need to take the S-bahn for a Kurzstrecke (short trip ticket) to Tempelhof S-bahn station.

Alternatively, those who do not wish to continue can also enjoy the Südgelände park café which is really nice and opens at 11:00!

The weather looks great for Friday, but of course we are in Berlin, so prepare for some rain just in case...
See you there! Maud

Give the opportunity to the people to get a garden tour in our community-learning gardens in Berlin-Wedding, himmelbeet with around 200 raised-beds and Elisabeet with his field and greenhouse in a cemetery in Soldiner Kiez.


Meeting Point: Berlin, Gartenstraße/ Ecke, Grenzstraße, 13355 Berlin
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gK3frcsyGUiht5Ub8

Tour a Polinator Garden at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin!

LAS Art Foundation planted the first international edition of Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's 'Pollinator Pathmaker' in front of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. The artist’s living artwork for pollinating insects marks an urgent shift away from human-centred thinking. In the context of TNOC, LAS offers a guided tour of this sculpture made of plants.

Each sculpture in the 'Pollinator Pathmaker' series is designed using a custom-build algorithm, which computes garden schemes that support the maximum number of pollinator species possible. The LAS curators will present this impactful initiative in interspecies art that was created in responds to the alarming decline in pollinating insects, which are vital for many plants to reproduce and ecosystems to survive. The tour invites audiences to reflect on what art can be, who it is for, and on the urgency of moving beyond anthropocentric approaches and aesthetics in the face of the climate and biodiversity crises.

MEETING POINT:
Address: Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin

Prinzessinnengarten is a 15 year old community garden. A few years ago it relocated on a cemetery. We will talk about why and what it is like to be located on a cemetery and the many activities and spaces that make up our garden.

Meeting point: Hermannstr. 99-105 12051 Berlin

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.

We will start at 10 am CET at Kulturschöpfer e.V. Grünberger Str. 13, 10243 Berlin Greenhill Gallery, please arrive from 9:30 am CET for coffee/tea ready to start our field trip to a local park at 10 am. Finish by midday CET.

The field trip will be lead by:

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:

1. The latest scientist research on the underground mycorrhizal network (that connects the roots of a plant with fungi), as well as Biophilia (love of nature), and deep time.
2. Linking these hidden pathways with what is underfoot in cities and towns, (pollution, pipes. cables, water).
3. Connecting nature with ethnomycology, underground grass roots eco-movements and marginalized communities.

www.kulturschoepfer.de
https://youtu.be/0-hS4HoW5fM?feature=shared

Among the various species introduced to Berlin by humans, there are indications that Grass Snakes (Natrix natrix) from Southern Europe might have been released into the area. Although this species is native to Berlin, the introduced individuals exhibit distinct morphological and genetic differences. To investigate the current Grass Snake population, we aim to collect samples from as many specimens as possible.

We invite scientists and wildlife enthusiasts alike to join us on this exciting field trip! Learn about our research project, witness real-time scientific investigations in the field, and explore the beautiful and unique habitat of amphibians and reptiles in north-western Berlin. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with nature and experience important ecological research!

Join us!


Host Institution: www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin


Fieltrip location: The Spandau Forest is a highly diverse protected nature area at the very border of Berlin. With several wetlands and various forest types, it is also home to hundreds of different animal species.

Meeting point:
At 9:00 at the bus stop „Bürgerablage“.
Google map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/W78G83HUMssn9vFP8

During the two-hour guided tour at the Tempelhofer Feld, different topics are communicated in dialogue, which refer to the special features of the area and its ecology. Special attention is paid to the grazing of the area by sheep. Interactions between farm animals, wild animals and the vegetation are presented.

On the base of special animal and plant species such as skylark and sand lizard, not only the importance of the Tempelhofer Field as a habitat is explained, but also basic biological concepts of different habitats and their inhabitants are explained.

The meeting point for the tour is the Info Pavilion on Tempelhofer Feld
https://maps.app.goo.gl/k4w8vgDhbotcRqCDA.

Please allow sufficient walking time - the Info Pavilion is about a 10-15 minute walk from the nearest bus stop (Bus stop Friedhoefe Columbiadamm).

From February to May, four artists collaborated with biodiversity scientists in collaboration with Berlin state representative on conservation and Freie Universität Berlin, exploring urban biodiversity. Inspired by this, they envision potential futures for Berlin's urban landscape through an exhibition at the Haus der Statistik at Alexanderplatz.  Join us for a guided tour through the exhibition with follow-up discussions at the intersection of art and science.


Location:
Haus der Statistik
Otto-Braun-Straße 70-72, 10178 Berlin

Photo Credits: Maximilian Koppernock

A site visit to the publicly accessible Wilmersdorf stadium to view the sheep grazing pilot project launched in 2021. Sheep are brought into the stadium twice a year to graze at its former grandstands which have been taken over by plants and shrubs for the past 20 years. The sheep help push back woody growth to make room for more species to thrive and to promote biodiversity. The juxtaposition of sheep in the stands and people exercising on the field is an unexpected sight to behold! Bring your running shoes or yoga mat for an (individual) outdoor workout afterwards.

Meeting point:
Fritz-Wildung-Straße 914199 Berlin

Google link: https://g.co/kgs/aRb9xSt