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The Nature of Cities Festival


TNOC Festival pushes boundaries to radically imagine our cities for the future. A virtual festival that spans 3 full days with programming across all regional time zones and is provided in multiple languages. A core philosophy of the festival is to foster inclusivity and lower barriers to participation. The festival focuses on facilitating transdisciplinary dialogue, small group workshops, arts engagement, and fostering a collaborative spirit around solutions for how to build cities that are better for nature and all people.

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NATURA Member Proposed Sessions:

An inclusive environment to understand nature connectedness in the 21st century

  • Proposers: Cassandra Murphy, Tadhg MacIntyre, Elaine Gallagher, Aoife Donnelly

NetworkNature Semester Event on Nature-Based Solutions for Ecosystem Restoration: Sharing experiences of ecosystem restoration

  • Proposers: Mario Balzan, Bettina Wilk, Shreya Utkarsh, Roger Roca Vallejo

Cities Biodiversity Outlook III: A science-policy journey for urban biodiversity

  • Proposers: Ernita van Wyk, Thomas Elmqvist, Rob MacDonald, Oliver Hillel

Nature-based solutions in rapidly urbanising African cities: concrete examples of non-concrete solutions

  • Proposers: Jack Campbell Clause, Franklin Kirimi, Kezia Ojal, Stella Stephen, Sabrina Ohler, Joe Mulligan, Tim Ndezi, regina Opondo, Festo Makoba, Teresia Wanjiru, Happiness Lazaro

An Ethical Code for Water - Diversifying the Global Conversation

  • Proposers: Sabrina L. Drill, Naomi Tsur, Peter Schoonmaker, Nancy Grimm, Diane Pataki, Anushri Tiwari, Shen Yu, Yiming Sun, Fred Tutman

Engaging Communities to Strengthen Resilience: Participatory Modelling and Collaborative Mapping

  • Proposers: Sabrina L. Drill, Eric Butler, Moira Zeller, James Rojas, Antwi Akom, Aekta Shah

Local LABS Mapping: Locating socio-ecological conflict spaces in territory for the climate resilience 

  • Proposers: Antonieta Peregrina, Duván Hernán López

A virtual Tour of Digital Nature

  • Proposers: Tadhg MacIntyre, Elena Brambilla, Giovanna Calogiuri, Brendan Keegan

Transformative capacities and pathways toward nature-based futures

  • Proposers: Nancy Grimm, Amanda (Mandy) Kuhn, David Iwaniec, Niki Frantzeskaki, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Robert Lloyd, Liliana Caughman

Reaping What We Sow– Urban Wildflower Sowing and Genetic Diversity

  • Proposers: Kevin Vega, Christoph Kueffer, Alex Widmer, Martin Fischer