NATURA Virtual All-Hands Meeting 2021 

Meeting recordings and other resources

*Please note that most recordings will be found on the TNOC site using the links below. However, there are some recordings available only through this page found in the agenda below.

• Plenaries

• Microtalks

• Seed Sessions (some sessions are available below. Others coming soon!)

• Art Videos

• Art Exhibition

• Meeting Report (coming soon)

VAHM 2021 Agenda

Monday, February 22

9:30-10:15 EST – NATURA Kick-Off meeting | timezone 1– Asia-Pacific, Europe

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• Timon McPhearson

• Join NATURA Co-Director, Timon McPhearson, in kicking off the week of exciting NATURA events! This meeting will feature a discussion structured around events of the week and projections for NATURA's future.

10:15 - 11:45  EST Seed Session | The Changing Form of Nature: A Multi-sensory Exploration of Our Connection to Nature

• Tadhg MacIntyre, Cassie Murphy, Giovanna Calogiuri, Evi Petersen, Elaine Gallagher

• Three themes will be explored: 1. Digital Nature vs Authentic Nature Experiences 2. Virtual vs Augmented Nature 3. Urban Nature vs Wilderness. We will use examples (eg. video, drawing) to prompt, probe and provoke reactions to create a backdrop to the emerging discourse.

13:10 - 13:30 EST Keynote | Elizabeth Cook: Building urban resilience with nature-based solutions and a global network of networks

• Elizabeth Cook

• Join NATURA Co-Director, Elizabeth Cook of Barnard University, in giving a keynote on highlighting why we need coordinated global, transdisciplinary discussions, collaborations, and co-production of knowledge to best address urban resilience with NBS and networks in general.

13:50 - 14:30 EST – Dialogue | NATURA Regional Node Dialogue at TNOC Festival (40 min.)

• Pippin Anderson, Erik Andersson, Nancy Grimm, Jordi Morato, Yeowon Kim

• Moderator: Marcus Collier (Connecting Nature Network)

• Join NATURA Regional Node representatives in discussing the topic of a global roadmap of NBS! Why do we need a roadmap? NBS is moving beyond the new buzzword to becoming the locus of massive scale of investments. However, recent reviews on NBS show that available literature and thus transferable knowledge is dominated by the global north. At the same time, it is clear that implementing NBS requires local knowledge to adapt to local SETS context. It seems there is a clear gap in bringing local knowledge, challenges, and cases of success to regional and global scale policymaking and investment in ways that can be shared and support mainstreaming of NBS for impact.

14:45 - 15:25 EST – Dialogue | NATURA Thematic Working Group Dialogue

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• Thomas Elmqvist (Urban Nature TWG), Chingwen Cheng (Design for Justice TWG), Duván Hernán López (Urban Informality TWG), Sabrina Drill (Global to Local)

• Moderator: Marta Berbés-Blázquez

14:45 - 16:15 EST – Seed Session | Integrating nature's contributions to people into urban planning

• Anne Guerry and Eric Lonsdorf

• We will create a dialogue between ecosystem service scientists, urban planners, and municipal decision-makers to generate and improve approaches and tools that integrate nature’s contributions to people into the equitable design and re-design of cities.

19:00 - 21:00 EST – Dialogue | Nature for our Health

·       Panel: Takemi Sugiyama, Zirui Yao, Farahnaz Sharifi, Prabhasri Herath

·       Moderator: Niki Frantzeskaki

22:45 - 23:30 EST – NATURA Kick-Off meeting | timezone 2– Africa, North America, Latin America

Recording

Chat

• Nancy Grimm

• Join NATURA Co-Director, Nancy Grimm, in kicking off the week of exciting NATURA events! This meeting will feature a discussion structured around events of the week and projections for NATURA's future.

Tuesday, February 23

1:00 - 2:00 EST – NATURA Early-Career Social Hour | Timezone 1

*This session took place within the TNOC Garden (breakroom) and was not recorded

• Moderator: Yuliya Dzyuban

4:15 - 5:45 EST Seed Session | Financing greener cities for the future we want

• Ingrid Coetzee

• Facilitate discussion innovative approaches that have been used to mobilize finance & investment in nature for cities, to up-scale the implementation of nature-based solutions. The session will also showcase some examples of innovative approaches and solutions to securing finance for nature in cities.

8:00 EST Dialogue | Biophilia: what does it mean to be a biophilic city? How would a city achieve it?

• Panel: Tim Beatley, Mike Wells, Pippin Anderson

• Moderator: JD Brown

8:50 EST Keynote | Global insights and challenges on Nature-based solutions for urban climate resilience

• Timon McPhearson

10:15 - 11:45 EST – Seed Session | Africa: NBS Global Roadmap

• Pippin Anderson

• Participate in conversations with your regional node to contribute insights for the development of a NATURA "Global Roadmap for NBS"! These conversations will create a space to begin brainstorming and identifying key learnings, successes, or issues to discuss within the Roadmap report.

10:15 - 11:45 EST Seed Session |  Europe: NBS Global Roadmap

• Timon McPhearson, Erik Andersson, Christopher Raymond

• Participate in conversations with your regional node to contribute insights for the development of a NATURA "Global Roadmap for NBS"! These conversations will create a space to begin brainstorming and identifying key learnings, successes, or issues to discuss within the Roadmap report.

10:15 - 11:45 EST Seed Session | How do we improve the availability of evidence of the impact of NBS on health?

• Clair Cooper and Danielle MacCarthy

• Evidence of the health impacts of NBS is scarce. This session asks how we can improve the availability of data and build evidence of impact of different types of NBS on health and well-being, especially in those communities most vulnerable to adverse health effects associated with climate change.

11:45 - 12:30 EST – NATURA Early-Career Social Hour | Timezone 2

*This session took place within the TNOC Garden (breakroom) and was not recorded

• Moderator: Yeowon Kim

14:45 - 16:15 EST – Seed Session | Reimagining the binational border: Tijuana River watershed

• Antonieta Peregrina, Carmen Romo

• 5 speakers will present a perspective of urban informality in the border city of Tijuana Baja California, Mexico, and their experiences and challenges in order to visualize possible articulations for the application of NBS as a response to social innovation and resilience.

21:15 - 22:45 EST – Seed Session | Measuring Urban Nature Post-2020

• Jennifer Rae Pierce

• This interactive session will invite attendees to discuss the development of urban nature measurement approaches that local governments can use and global institutions can integrate into cross-scalar initiatives.

21:15 - 22:45 EST – Seed Session | Asia-Pacific: NBS Global Roadmap

• Weiqi Zhou and Yeowon Kim

• Participate in conversations with your regional node to contribute insights for the development of a NATURA "Global Roadmap for NBS"! These conversations will create a space to begin brainstorming and identifying key learnings, successes, or issues to discuss within the Roadmap report.

21:15 - 22:45 EST – Seed Session | Gearing up for mainstreaming nature in cities

• Niki Frantzeskaki, Cathy Oke, Jonathan Kingsley, Hans Bokelund, Judy Bush, Maria Ignatieva, Laura Mumaw

• In this session we want to step on this knowledge and ask a more daring question: What transformations do we need for bringing nature in cities globally? Which are the transformations that we need to scale, accelerate and mainstream in ways of thinking (visions, imaginaries, understandings), ways of doing (practices), ways of organizing (institutions and structures, networks), ways of knowing (knowledge systems and producing of knowledge) and ways of relating (cultures)? Our speakers will provide their best insights into how to make this transformation happen – in our rapid fire session. They will be provocative, innovative and inspirational … so at the end of the 90mins we have a snapshot of the transformation need…

Wednesday, February 24

4:15 - 5:45 EST – Seed Session | Adding the non-human other to human commoning and right livelihood in the city

• Rembrandt Zegers and Henkjan Laats

• We see a revival of parks and the collective learning of relating to nature. In this conversation we want to share the observation, the approach in collective learning and some experiences from practical local context (mainly city of Amsterdam).

10:15 EST – Field Trip | Exploring local nature-based graffiti in the Woodstock neighborhood in Cape Town: what's there and why?

• Pippin Anderson

10:15 - 11:45 EST – Seed Session | Early Career Network - Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA)

• Yeowon Kim and Zbigniew Grabowski

• Nature-based Solutions have emerged as a mainstream intervention for solving global challenges. However, NBS are defined variously by different academic disciplines, practitioner types, and cultural contexts. Join a guided discussion to explore the understandings NBS, motivations, and the personal and professional challenges and opportunities for doing NBS-oriented work.

14:45 - 16:15 EST – Seed Session | Equitable Access to High Quality Urban Nature

• JD Brown, Catherine Werner, Priya Tallam

• Equitable access to nature is a critical priority for cities. Less common is a commitment to ensure urban nature is biodiverse. Through a combination of large and small group discussions, this session will explore ways to define, and integrate to “high quality” urban nature.

14:45 - 16:15 EST – Seed Session | Urban development intersections with nature and informality (intercontinental dialogue) 

• Duván Hernán López, Antonieta Peregrina, Nadya Milena Rangel, Math Feagan, Carlos Agudelo

• A panel of international practitioners on NBS will provide a global perspective on urban informality using the city of Bogota, Colombia, as a stepping stone for discussion about how different cities around the world address the intersection of urban development and informal dynamics, tracing parallels or differences.

17:00 - 18:00 EST – Seed Session | North America: NBS Global Roadmap

Recording

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• Nancy Grimm

• Participate in conversations with your regional node to contribute insights for the development of a NATURA "Global Roadmap for NBS"! These conversations will create a space to begin brainstorming and identifying key learnings, successes, or issues to discuss within the Roadmap report.

19:00 - 19:40 EST – Dialogue | What are the challenges and prospects for green urbanism in China today?

• Wemei Bai, Pengfei Xie, Weiqi Zhou, Moderated by Fish Yu

21:15 – 22:45 EST – Seed Session | Transformative approaches for nature-based solutions in Australian cities

• Niki Frantzeskaki

• In this session they had ICLEI Oceania, Swinburne University (Niki) and strategic planners from City of Adelaide and City of Cairns presenting on the practice of planning nature-based solutions.

Thursday, February 25

2:00 EST – Conversation | How does street art influence urban perception, city landscape, and development planning?

• Naa Korkor, Hassan Ismail, Nana S. Achampong, Pippin Anderson

4:15 - 5:45 EST – Seed Session | How to increase the use of effective nature-based solutions in urban planning?

• Mario V Balzan, Miriam Grace, Lynn Dicks, Marcus Collier, Davide Geneletti

• After a short scene setting talk, to present some ongoing work in the ReNature project, this seed session will take the format of a discussion during which participants can share their experiences about the use NbS in cities, and their effectiveness in leading to co-benefits to biodiversity and human well-being.

8:00 EST – Dialogue | Urban biodiversity: what are the top things the CBD’s post 2020 biodiversity goals need to accomplish in relation to cities?

• Didier Babin, Chantal van Ham, Thomas Elmqvist, Moderator: Ingrid Coetzee

10:15 - tbd EST – Seed Session | Learning Exchange Meet and Greet

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• Mark Watkins (CAP LTER), Sabrina Drill (WCMER), Sarah Hines (USDA FS), Rik De Vreese (European Forest Institute), Jennifer Rae Pierce (Urban Biodiversity Hub), Chris Kennedy (Urban Systems Lab)

• Moderator: Tessa Martinez

• Join NATURA’s Learning Exchange Hosts to hear about their organizations and expertise available for collaborations in regard to a Learning Exchange (LE)! For more information on how to become a LE Host or Fellow visit our LE webpage.

14:45 - 16:15 EST – Seed Session | Campus of Landscape Architecture School: Our Real-World Lab of Nature in Cities

• Kevin Vega, Mark Krieger, Cengiz Akandil, Christoph Kueffer, Jasmin Joshi

• Real-world labs enable social learning among researchers, students, practitioners and the public. We invite you on a tour of the university campus in Rapperswil, Switzerland to discuss our approach of teaching and researching sustainable open space design (e.g. horticulture, biodiversity, rainwater, solar energy, digitalisation) in our urban lab.

Friday, February 26

2:00 EST – Conversation | Are people changed by interactions with wild urban nature?

• Marcus Collier and Kevin Vega

5:15 - 6:45 EST – Seed Session | Achieving climate justice through locally-led, nature-based solutions in urban areas

• Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar

• The session will be an interactive session, with an introduction to PlanAdapt, our underlying principles, and how they connect with our way of doing work, and our work. After an introduction to the concept of Urban EbA, and its instances across the globe, as submitted to an online survey (convened by PlanAdapt and IUCN), and shared at various forums, we will share emerging principles for achieving climate justice through locally-led, nature-based solutions. We identify how the principles were achieved in practice, by highlighting particular cases, their contexts and the processes they employed. We invite the informality and design for justice TWGs of the NATURA network to produce significant contributions to this work, through reflections on their work, principles and goals of their work.

7:00 - 7:45 EST NATURA Closing Meeting 

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• Description:Join NATURA Network Co-Director, Elizabeth Cooke, in wrapping up the week of meetings and sessions! This meeting will summarize key points from sessions earlier in the week and take a look into the future for NATURA activities and opportunities.

8:00 EST – Conversation | Urban-Rural Linkages: How can we strength teleconnections to improve biodiversity? (in French)

• Jean-Marie Cishahayo, Gilles Lecuir

• Moderator: Oliver Hillel

10:15 – 11:00 EST – Field Trip | Otters, heritage, and whisky: River tales from Edinburgh

• Russell Galt

• 'Daunder' along the Water of Leith, through the annals of Scottish history. Between the dark Dean Valley and the silted docks, explore allotments, weirs and walls; graffiti and graveyards; railways and wildlife. Marvel at a river restored and ponder the questions she conjures about ecology, equality and resilience.

10:15 - 11:45 EST – Seed Session | Decolonizando Perspectivas: observando padrões coloniais no design urbano contemporâneo

• Anna Clara De Nardin

• Exploramos as raízes coloniais das cidades no Sul Global através da relação Portugal-Brasil no planejamento e desenho urbano e seu papel na perpetuação do colonialismo em nossas mentes, culturas, convenções e leis de planejamento em cidades contemporâneas. A descolonização do design urbano traz resiliência social e climática às nossas cidades.

10:15 - 11:45 EST – Seed Session | Natura jako klucz do dobrostanu mieszkańców i tożsamości miejsca

• Kinga Krauze, Wiktoria Czarnecka, Renata Włodarczyk-Marciniak

• Societal and environmental challenges call for actions for human and planetary health. In multi-stakeholder group we will discuss how to simultaneously stimulate growth of social and natural capital of cities. It requires consensus over unpopular decisions, long-term planning, individual responsibility and finally transfer of scientific knowledge to society.

10:15 - 11:45 EST – Seed Session | Beneficios y Oportunidades de las Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza en América Latina

• Jordi Morato, Elizabeth Cook, Carlos Arias, Gladys Vidal

• a) Revisar los casos y buenas prácticas de NBS en la región. Se va a lanzar un llamado conjuntamente con la Red Latinamericana de Humedales de Tratamiento (HUPANAM)
  b) Buscar las lecciones aprendidas a nivel local y comunitario
  c) Cuales son las Barreras y Facilitadores

11:45 - 12:30 EST – Seed Session | Follow up: Global Perspective for a Global Roadmap

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• Join NATURA Regional Node Leads as they summarize key findings from Regional Node Global Roadmap seed sessions that occurred earlier in the week. The conversation will close with discussion of how these insights will be brought together to form a NATURA Global Roadmap for NbS.

12:30 - 14:30 EST – Dialogue | ¿Cómo pensar y planificar ciudades como lugares biodiversos? (How to think and plan cities as biodiverse places?)

• Nicolás Galarza, Eduardo Haene, Daniela Rizzi

• Moderator: Maria Mejia

12:30 - 14:30 EST – Conversation | Civil Society is, or should be, the glue that holds sustainable cities together

• Erika Svendensen and Lindsay Campbell, with David Maddox

14:45 - 16:15 EST – Seed Session | Stewardship Storytelling Circle: Embracing many ways of knowing urban nature

• Lindsay Campbell, Erika Svendensen, Michelle Johnson, Heather McMillen, Laura Landau, Sophie Plitt, Marisa Prefer

• We will convene a “brave space” for exchange grounded in learning from place and each other to inspire cross-cultural dialogue about stewardship. Participants will work in small groups to share perspectives and experiences of caring for/with nature, and design their own “stewardship salon” based on cultivating communities of care.