prototyping better human-planetary relationships.
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fresque du cl!mat
image above: Fresque du Cl!mat at the Haus pour Bienne, 2025, Jan Eckert. In a world increasingly affected by climate change, understanding the complex web of causes and effects has never been more important. The Fresque du Cl!mat (Climate Collage) is an educational game that addresses the lack of climate literacy by transforming people’s understanding…
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New Book Chapter
I am delighted to announce the publication of my chapter “Hortopia – Territories of Cotransformation” in the new book “Power in Transformation-Creative Practices as Catalysts of Change” edited by Mustapha El Moussaoui, Kris Krois and Teresa Palmieri, just published by oekom publishers. The chapter presents Hortopia as a transformative framework that re-imagines the garden as…
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ai meets human culture
A visit to our partners at the Generative Centre turned into a rich dialogue exploring several critical aspects of AI’s impact on creative processes, spanning technology, sociology, art criticism and practical art-making, and enabling a multifaceted exploration of how AI is reshaping creative practice in the digital age.
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no-minute city
no-minute city is a project proposal that challenges conventional temporal frameworks in urban environments. By questioning time as a human construct while emphasising natural temporalities, it explores the fundamental relationships between urban spaces and their inhabitants.
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idg ambassadors programme
Last weekend, the Kilimanjaro cohort of the Inner Development Goals (IDG) Ambassadors Programme met on Ekskäret Island in the Stockholm Archipelago – an intensive transformative journey initiated by the Inner Development Goals Organisation to advocate for global inner development.
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rosenstein: urban garden futures
Hortopia gateway and garden of the future for Stuttgart Rosenstein, Stuttgart’s new urban area for a greener city. Manifesting in four dimensions: inspiration, experimentation, degustation and contemplation.
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towards scenarios of degrowth
It was a privilege and a pleasure to meet Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito and attend his guest lecture on Climate Change, Degrowth and Communism. Many thanks to the IEA Institute for Design and Architecture at ETH Zurich for inviting him.
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re-generating our planet
What’s work without people? Are we facing a fully automated world of work? Is AI really the key? What other scenarios are possible? And which ones are desirable for people and the planet? On 22 October 2024, we discussed these and many other questions with neuroscientist Pascal Kaufmann, Peter Roth, CEO of Mint-Architecture, leadership expert…
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hortopia II
The importance of dreams in connecting people’s need to interact with nature and the garden as a space to fulfil this need is discussed in Clément’s experiments with the Planetary Garden. For Hortopia, too, people’s dreams became a central interface between people and nature.
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hamidashi midori
Hamidashi Midori’ comes from the Japanese and means ‘spreading green’. The context of ‘Hamidashi Midori’ is that of small urban gardens, which in Japan often begin on the doorstep and extend into the public realm.
