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

Plenary 8

See the recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/tawgyZlGWUZpny_IqCIT1SMRxUZPr_oTE-1gHMD7EF3vCNyrfOGclSAOqvtoQ4zp.bBWwR8WGYy7UkClr
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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