The Naturescapes Collaboratory strives to form a diverse community around nature-based solutions where people work to discover new ways of doing, thinking and living together.
Here you can find out more information about the different ways we organise the Collaboratory meetings, as well as information about past and future events, including presentation materials and meeting recordings. If you want to learn more about the Collaboratory, check out our blogpost.
Each Collaboratory event operates according to a particular “meeting mode” – idea exploration, collaborative showcase and project update. The “meeting mode” helps participants to work together in different ways and achieve different goals.
Mode #1: Idea Exploration
This form of meeting focuses on testing and/or exploring particular ideas, initiatives, or tools related to nature-based solutions. These ideas will come from the Naturescapes team, as well as from our external partners. The session will focus on 1-2 presentations that are more in-depth and will provide time and space for Collaboratory members to comment, ask questions, and think through the idea together.
Mode #2: Collaborative Showcase
This form of meeting focuses on promoting the work and initiatives on nature-based solutions of our partners from all across the world. This type of session will open with a short overview presentation on the theme being discussed. Then, we will give the floor to our partners to showcase the work they are doing and exchange ideas with Collaboratory members. The session will involve 3-5 short presentations.
Mode #3: Project Update
This form of meeting focuses on giving updates on the progress of the Naturescapes project, including outputs, recent developments, and future initiatives or events. The session is organised by Naturescapes team members and will feature 3-4 short presentations on project work. The purpose of the meeting is to connect the Collaboratory with ongoing project activities.
Collaboratory Meeting #6:
The Naturescapes Scorecard: Assessing the physical and social impacts of 390 NBS sites
Collaboratory Meeting #7:
(Un)Learning as we go: Lessons from Nature-based solutions mainstreaming in Africa and beyond
Previous sessions in the Collaboratory Events series
Event #5: Nature-based Solutions and Coastal Communities
This event was organised as a community-led discussion on coastal nature-based solutions. It was hosted in collaboration with partners from communities in our case study sites, who shared practical experience in designing, implementing and caring for nature-based solutions in urban and coastal settings.
Event #4: Nature-based Solutions and the Role of Imaginaries
This event focused on the role of imaginaries in the design and implementation of nature-based solutions, how the project thinks about "imaginaries” and how they link to transformative change. It was hosted in collaboration with partners from the Almada Municipality in Lisbon, Portugal.
Event #3: Co-financing Nature-based Solutions
This meeting focused on financing nature-based solutions. Discussions included how the Naturescapes project thinks about the role of (co-)financing in nature-based solutions, its link to transformative change, including how it can help us address climate change, biodiversity loss and social justice.
Event #2: Nature-based Solutions: Citizen Science
This second event focused on Citizen Science, its role in nature-based solutions and its link to transformative change, including how it can help us address climate change, biodiversity loss and social justice. Some case studies were showcased employing CitS.
Event 1#: Nature-based Solutions: Synergies and Conflicts
In this first session, the Naturescapes project was introduced and discussions focused on the relevance of taking a landscape perspective to understand the potential that nature-based solutions have for addressing climate, nature and social justice. Some of the initial research was presented.