Opening
program | friday, 26.02.2021 | 10:00 – 11:00
To kick off the festival, the lala.ruhr team will give an insight into the topic and the ideas behind it, Anja Bierwirth, head of the Urban Change Research Unit at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, in her input on green infrastructure, will draw a line from the quality of life in our cities to concrete measures, and Dr. Jan-Hendrik Kamlage from the Participation Culture Research Unit at the Ruhr University Bochum will combine the topics of sustainability and participation in his contribution. Svenja Noltemeyer from the Dortmunder Büro für Möglichkeitsräume (Dortmund Office for Possibility Spaces) addresses urban development through art and the creative industries. We will open the festival programme with a concluding talk with Nina Frense, Councillor for the Environment and Green Infrastructure at the Ruhr Regional Association.
lala.lounge - Digital coffee break
program | friday, 26.02.2021 | 13:00 – 14:00
Time must be: Between Biodiversity, Transformation, Urban Green and Participation, we invite you to get to know the other festival participants and to get into conversation.
Even though we will only meet digitally at this festival, we would like to take the opportunity to spend the breaks and evenings together during the two festival days.
So grab your coffee, soda or beer, make yourself comfortable at home, in the office or on the balcony and with one click you’ll be in our virtual beer garden.
lala.lounge - Informal networking meeting
program | friday, 26.02.2021 | 19:00 – 21:00
Time must be: Between Biodiversity, Transformation, Urban Green and Participation, we invite you to get to know the other festival participants and to get into conversation.
Even though we will only meet digitally at this festival, we would like to take the opportunity to spend the breaks and evenings together during the two festival days.
So grab your coffee, soda or beer, make yourself comfortable at home, in the office or on the balcony and with one click you'll be in our virtual beer garden.
Joint closing
program | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 16:00 – 17:00
At the end of the festival, presenters and participants of the workshops will report on their results and experiences during these two days.
lala.lounge - Informal networking meeting
program | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 17:00 – 18:00
Time must be: Between Biodiversity, Transformation, Urban Green and Participation, we invite you to get to know the other festival participants and to get into conversation.
Even though we will only meet digitally at this festival, we would like to take the opportunity to spend the breaks and evenings together during the two festival days.
So grab your coffee, soda or beer, make yourself comfortable at home, in the office or on the balcony and with one click you’ll be in our virtual beer garden.
lala.lounge - Digital coffee break
program | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 12:30 – 13:00 | 14:30 – 15:00
Time must be: Between Biodiversity, Transformation, Urban Green and Participation, we invite you to get to know the other festival participants and to get into conversation.
Even though we will only meet digitally at this festival, we would like to take the opportunity to spend the breaks and evenings together during the two festival days.
So grab your coffee, soda or beer, make yourself comfortable at home, in the office or on the balcony and with one click you’ll be in our virtual beer garden.
Workshop: Lean Impact - a quick test for your utopias and their impact!
program | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 10:00 – 12:00
You have an idea and don't really know what to do? You want to make a difference but don't want to pay too much for it? For you, profit cannot only be measured in money? Then you've come to the right place. Together with Daniel Bartel from SEND (Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerk Deutschland, Regionalgruppe NRW) your ideas will get legs and wings in this workshop.
About the workshop leader: Daniel Bartel is a bridge builder between reality and a common good-oriented future, social innovator and NewWork pioneer make it - a network of 100 founders that has already inspired over 500 start-up teams of established companies worldwide. Daniel has published three books, is a changemaker dealing with the essential questions of responsible business models in a digitalised society and is the organiser of Unfuck Düsseldorf. He was recently voted one of the "Top 40 under 40 - Macherinnen und Macher im Rheinland".
Yoga-Session “back to the roots”
program | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 12:15 – 13:30
In the yoga session "back to the roots" we focus on grounding and rootedness - a perception that we combine with experiences in nature, in keeping with the festival theme. In particular, we will practice standing positions that address our balance and stability. Find a nice and quiet place where you can spend the yoga session at KOSMOSZWEI with Kathi and Juliane without disturbance. Make yourself comfortable, switch your mobile phone to airplane mode and treat yourself to some time out in your own personal feel-good atmosphere.
To join in, you will need a (yoga) mat, sportswear and a candle.
The yoga session is also suitable for beginners!
Photo: KOSMOSZWEI
The genre "Nature Writing"
program | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 13:45 – 14:45
Via Great Britain and the USA, the genre of "nature writing" has arrived in Germany. Why is this literary genre so popular at the moment? And how do you find a literary approach to nature? We will explore this in this one-hour session with Elke Heinemann.
"Nature to Author - Author to Nature. #Strandgänge" is the name of one of her most recent radio features, produced in 2020 by WDR in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk. Excerpts from the programme will be presented. Elke Heinemann will be present, talk about her work and answer questions from the audience.
Elke Heinemann was born in Essen and lives in Berlin after working in Paris and London. In 2018, the multi-award-winning writer and publicist received the Ruhr Literature Prize from the Ruhr Regional Association for her complete works.
Photo: gezett
Live Podcast: The One Minute City and the Internet of Nature! (en)
program | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 15:00 – 16:00
Moderator:
Tommaso Bassetti, Urban and Climate Policy Consultant (C40, UN ECE)
Guests:
Dr. Nadina Galle, Ecological Engineer and pioneer of the ‘Internet of Nature’ concept, Amsterdam
Andrea Balestrini, Head of LAND Research Lab, Milano
With less or no access to offices, bars, restaurants, museums and others, urban quality of life has never been so dependent on the spaces that lay in front of our doors. Together with Dr. Nadina Galle, Ecological Engineer and pioneer of the ‘Internet of Nature’ concept and Andrea Balestrini, Head of LAND Research Lab, we will explore how to rethink ordinary urban streets in a way that benefits its residents also post-pandemic, while at the same time increasing resilience to an accelerating climate crisis by green performance.
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to design and deliver inclusive, green and quality public open spaces has become clear to all. As cities reconsider traditional ways of planning and embrace new paradigms to adapt to the health, economic and climate crisis, the centrality of urban green infrastructure has the potential to really take off all around the world.
In the need to upgrades of the urban street space from transit to high-quality, green and functional neighbourhoods, designed for and with the key input of its residents is a vivid discussion today. As urban spaces and green infrastructures such as trees face quick decay, it also becomes key to understand innovative ways to best manage these areas. Nadina Galle recommends using sensors, satellite imagery and computer algorithms to help us understand how to best manage urban green spaces. She calls this approach the “Internet of Nature” and it should support cities to become a well performing "Biosphere of Humankind".
With this session we want to introduce the Urban Landscape Lab Podcast with Tommaso Bassetti, Urban and Climate Policy Expert, and by this providing a platform for the discussion of experiences, innovative ideas and projects at the intersection between urban quality of life and green performance and quality. lala.ruhr - the landscape laboratory - aims to (re-)integrate urban nature in the design of our cities.
How do these concepts correlate and how can they be integrated for the planning of cities during and post-COVID-19? Join the discussion on “The one Minute City and the Internet of Nature!” #thinklandscape
Workshop: Cyanotype - an old photographic noble printing process (part 2)
program | friday, 26.02.2021 | 13.30 – 14.30 part 1 | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 17.15 – 18.15 part 2
limited number of participants | (Notice: no more spots bookable)
Cyanotype is an old photographic noble printing process with blue colour tones. In this two-part workshop you will learn the basics of cyanotype - not only in theory, but also in practice! In the run-up to the festival, we will send you a free package containing all the necessary materials, including the photo emulsion. In the two one-hour sessions, Essen-based artist Carina Hommel will introduce you to the technique and provide you with inspiration for your first own monochrome work with motifs from nature.
The number of participants is limited due to the shipping of work materials. Those who want to join spontaneously in order to familiarise themselves with the theoretical basics are nevertheless very welcome!
(Notice: no more spots bookable)
Workshop: Co-creating Collaboration - Insights & Tools
program | friday, 26.02.2021 | 11:15 – 12:45 (Notice: no more spots bookable)
Everyone should work together equally and creatively. Everyone should have a say and be able to develop their own potential - this is the aspiration of many groups and many a commitment or project starts under this premise. Sometimes disillusionment or even disappointment sets in after a while: Because the work does not run by itself, seemingly endless discussions are not followed by decisions and only a few take responsibility. There is another way!
In this workshop we will get an overview of the basics of good collaboration as well as methods and tools that support co-creative cooperation in our teams. In addition to input, there will also be time for trying things out and for collegial exchange.
Workshop leader Martina Nies has a degree in geography and is fascinated by co-creative and collaborative work in inter- and transidisciplinary teams. As a project developer and consultant, she accompanies people with diverse backgrounds, expertise and motivations who want to jointly develop and implement sustainable projects or change their living space.
More information at www.herdenintelligenz.de
Notice: no more spots bookable
Photo: Martina Nies
Workshop: Cyanotype - an old photographic noble printing process (part 1)
program | friday, 26.02.2021 | 13.30 – 14.30 part 1 | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 17.15 – 18.15 part 2
limited number of participants | (Notice: no more spots bookable)
Cyanotype is an old photographic noble printing process with blue colour tones. In the two-part workshop you will learn the basics of cyanotype - not only in theory, but also in practice! In the run-up to the festival, we will send you a free package containing all the necessary materials, including the photo emulsion. In the two one-hour sessions, Essen-based artist Carina Hommel will introduce you to the technique and provide you with inspiration for your first own monochrome work with motifs from nature.
The number of participants is limited due to the shipping of work materials. Those who want to join spontaneously to familiarise themselves with the theoretical basics are nevertheless very welcome!
(Notice: no more spots bookable)
Photo: Hommel
Yoga-Session “back to the roots”
program | friday, 26.02.2021 | 16:00 – 17:15
In the yoga session "back to the roots" we focus on grounding and rootedness - a perception that we combine with experiences in nature, in keeping with the festival theme. In particular, we will practice standing positions that address our balance and stability. Find a nice and quiet place where you can spend the yoga session at KOSMOSZWEI with Kathi and Juliane without disturbance. Make yourself comfortable, switch your mobile phone to airplane mode and treat yourself to some time out in your own personal feel-good atmosphere.
To join in, you will need a (yoga) mat, sportswear and a candle.
The yoga session is also suitable for beginners!
Photo: KOSMOSZWEI