Upcoming Events
Brussels2030 Summer Assembly 2023
28 June – 2 July 2023, Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Learning(with)plants in Brussels / Apprendre avec les plantes à Bruxelles / Leren met planten in Brussel
Keywords: Medicinal and edible plants, Co-habitation,
Resilience
Hosts: Brussels Health Gardens – Jardins Santé à Bruxelles
What: co-creation lab
Participants: min. 10 – max. 12
When: Wednesday 28.06 – 14h-17h
Language: FR/EN
Where: Maison des Arts – Salon 5
In Learning(with)Plants interactive workshop we will invite local
Brussels plants to participate in our space of learning and
healing. We will reflect on vegetal intelligence and will question
what plants can teach us and how they can participate in our
mutual learning to respond to a fast-changing world. We will be
sharing stories, memories, experiences, diverse knowledge and
we will co-write(with)plants by shapeshifting into a guest plant,
exploring phytography by creating a short story.
Link: https://brussels2030.be/join-the-brussels2030-summer-assembly-2023/
Full programme: https://brussels2030.be/wp-content/uploads/EN-B2030-SUMMER-ASSEMBLY-2023.pdf
Registration: https://form.jotform.com/231247712341347
ClimateExistence 2023 – 16-18 August
Welcome to ClimateExistence 2023!
How can we embrace the dismembered world, live meaningful lives and actively engage for better?
Herds of ice calves leave the Arctic never to be seen again – testifying that the graphs and numbers from climate predictions are realized in the world beyond papers and projections. While humans flee war and famine, and the political as well as the natural landscape shake beneath our feet – we meet in Sigtuna for the sixth ClimateExistence conference 2023. Having listened to the scientists we realize listening to them alone might not be enough – do we need to hear the ice howling too?
How can we embrace the dismembered world, live meaningful lives and actively engage for better? What are the emotional repercussions of this climate crisis and what lies behind the graphs and numbers signaling this catastrophe? What is yet to reveal itself and how do we differentiate between the stars and satellites?
Interactive workshop Learning(with) Plants
In our current post-industrial and globalised society, more and more people are experiencing a sense of alienation, in particular from the more than human world. To address these traumas, we will explore the possibilities of Learning(with)Plants. In our interactive workshop we will invite local Sigtuna plants to participate in our space of learning and healing. We will reflect on vegetal intelligence and will question what plants can teach us and how they can participate in our mutual learning? We will be sharing stories, memories,experiences, knowledges and we will co-write(with)plants while shapeshifting into a guest plant, exploring phytography by writing a short story, poem, prayer,opinion piece or creating some other art work.
Full programme: http://www.climateexistence.se/program/
Registration: http://www.climateexistence.se/registration/
Previous events, presentations, talks
2019
Citizens Researchers Open Forum meeting Jardins Santé à Bruxelles, 23 November 2019, ULB, Brussels
Belgian One Health Network, Launching Event, 5 November 2019, Tervuren, Belgium
Living heritage in the Nordic countries, 31 October-2 November 2019, Helsinki, Finland
Citizens Researchers Open Forum meeting Jardins Santé à Bruxelles, 19 October 2019, ULB, Brussels
Patrimoine culturel et espaces verts dans la ville, 19 October 2019, Brussels
6th World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Human and Animal Welfare (WOCMAP VI)
International forum: Evolving the Forest, 19-21 June 2019, UK
The Nature of Cities (TNOC) Summit, 4-7 June 2019, Paris, France
Urban Agricultural Heritage and the Shaping of Future Cities, 6-8 May 2019, Hanover
Workshop “Forests for Human Health – Challenges and Opportunities”, 8-9 April 2019, Vienna, Austria
First Co–Create project Jardins Santé à Bruxelles meeting, 21 March 2019, ULB, Brussels
2018
Exhibition: Healing Garden, until 14 December 2018, London, UK
International Conference European Forests – Our Cultural Heritage, 4-7 December 2018
Agriculture urbaine : Avenir de la ville de demain ? 24 November 2018
Internationaler Kongress Gesundheitspotenzial Wald, 6-7 November 2018
14th International People Plant Symposium, IPPS2018, OCTOBER 11-13 2018 Malmö Sweden
Nature on prescription, Medicinal and edible plants, 4 October 2018, Antwerp, Belgium
International Forest Therapy Days, 6-12 August 2018, Karjalohja, Finland
Nature Connections conference, 20 June 2018, University of Derby, UK
EU Green Week 2018, Green cities for a greener future, 21-25 May 2018, Brussels, Belgium
International Conference Utrecht: Urban cultures, Superdiversity and Intangible Heritage
2017
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, 27-29 June 2017, Bonn, Germany
2016
European OneHealth EcoHealth workshop, 6-7 October 2016, Brussels, Belgium
Colloque BiodiverSanté, 27 May 2016, Charleroi, Belgium
LES PLANTES MÉDICINALES : TRADITION CULTURELLE ET RECHERCHE DE POINTE
2015
Green Week 2015 Nature – our health, our wealth, 3-5 June 2015, Brussels, Belgium