It begins with a greeting. Daisies, dead-nettles, dwarf periwinkle, moss and grass. The touch is gentle. A feeling of aliveness.
Who taught them to live together as a meadow? Read More
Meadowing Workshop – Nature Through Art Conference
Tag: nature
Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #53
Almost in every symbiosis plants and their positive relationships are involved. Plants form the structure of ecosystems and ultimately provide food for all other members of the community
Andreas Gigon
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Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #42 – Sitting in a Circle
Read MoreIn gathering roots, just plunging in will get you nothing but a hole. We have to unlearn hurrying. This is all about slowness. “First we give. Then we take.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Walk Exploring the Urban Biosphere // November 27, 2022
Investigating the relationship between Tegel residents, the biosphere and the city, in this walk we observe wildlife interactions in the area between the Flughafensee and the Tegeler See. For instance, we learn about human-beaver negotiations around the willow tree.
Read MoreBetween Us and Nature – A Reading Club #38 / Honorable Harvest
Read MoreThe traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous harvesters is rich in prescriptions for sustainability. They are found in native science and philosophy, in lilfeways and practice but most of all in stories, the ones that are told to help restore balance, to locate ourselves once again in the circle.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Future of Environmental Pedagogies / As part of Future Talks at ‘The Sun Machine is Coming Down’
Emerging from programs that already took place at the natureculture learning site of the Floating University Berlin, the dialogue “The Future of Environmental Pedagogies” wishes to dismantle artificial divisions between forms of practice. At this talk I will share from my ‘Thinking through the web of life with sponges’ research:
Sharing stories about sponges, is an invitation to rethink the frames defining how and what we are learning about the world we live in. While getting to know sponges, we might meet our ancestors or even ourselves.
Sina Ribak
• 17th of October 2021 SUNDAY 20:00, “Bureau for Hybridising Encounters” at the ICC as part of “The Sun Machine Is Coming Down”, a project by Berliner Festspiele
• The Future of Environmental Pedagogies, with: Katherine Ball, Ignacio Farias, Sandra Jasper, Sina Ribak and Ela Spalding
Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #29 / Solastalgia -Grieving Ecological Loss
“[…] solastalgia is the pain or sickness caused by the loss or lack of solace and the sense of isolation connected to the present state of one’s home and territory.” [Glenn Albrecht, 2005]