NATURICITY: Everyday narratives of urban futures

Our goal as an interdisciplinary team was to contribute to new imaginaries of cities, where nature is viewed as an integral part of environmental/social resilience/social justice, with changing perceptions driving its uptake through culture, markets and policies.

To meet this goal, we conducted explorative and collaborative research, teaching and impact work through two comparative case studies in the Netherlands and Colombia, thus taking into account the diverse imaginaries, narratives, policies and future visions that NBS generate in the global South and global North. We worked on five different fronts.

  1. We conducted a scoping research on the narratives/imaginaries through which nature and the city come to be known, normalised and contested in relation to one another and identify the form and evolution of the notion of urban nature in two port cities
  2. Two workshops (one in the Netherlands and one in Colombia) to gather and collectively interrogate urban nature narratives and imaginaries. These workshops were developed on the basis of students’ work.
  3. Naturicity Field Course among Sustainable Development MSc students
  4. Reading Group: (Non) Fictions of Urban Natures - See flyers
  5. Naturicity exchange(s) between researchers, artists, practitioners and policymaker

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