Naturescapes Interventions
Through the Naturescapes project, we are co-creating a set of interventions that draw on either learning, demonstrating or futuring as an underlying theory of change. We are co-designing and co-developing the interventions with local collaborators across locations in the European Union, Latin America and the United States of America.
We conducted a pilot intervention in Gothenburg, Sweden entitled “We Live Here Too”. Read about the experiences from this intervention in a blogpost on imagining cities for bats, moths, and wildflowers. Check out the materials from this intervention available in Swedish, English and Spanish.
Urban Nature - We Live Here Too
This intervention is an interactive workshop that invites children to imagine and build cities that make space for other species through play, storytelling, and hands-on creativity. Tested in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Botanical Turn
This intervention aims to strengthen the relationship between botanical gardens and their city, spatially, culturally and through practices, by engaging leadership and experts at botanical gardens, city planners, architects, landscape architects and designers. From Lisbon (Portugal), we travel to Cagliari (Italy) and Lima (Peru).
Becoming Metropolis
This intervention suggests that waterways can connect both humans and more-than-humans – the idea of (re)connecting through water. Focusing on Mobile, USA.
Invisible Rivers
This intervention aims to raise awareness of a network of invisible rivers in Lisbon, Portugal and to stimulate new imaginaries for a city with more space for nature and people.
Growing Commons
This intervention involves a participatory transformation of a barren lot in Villa El Salvador in Lima, Peru into an urban edible forest. The aim is to create a productive, educational and community green space.
Beaver Agency
Beavers are colonizing the waterways of Berlin, Germany. This intervention will take the form of an artistic activity exploring how these ecosystem engineers have gradually re-established themselves and how they are reshaping the city waterways.
Lagoon Dialogues
This intervention addresses La Ciénaga de la Virgen (Cartagena, Colombia) as a deeply contested urban nature space where ecological degradation, livelihoods, housing, infrastructure, and identity collide. This intervention is conceived as a dialogue process.
River Futures
This intervention is a participatory learning and futuring exercise centred on the Bahlui River, a degraded yet symbolically and spatially central element of the urban landscape in Iasi, Romania.