Events

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

Colloque – Les musées universitaires et leurs publics, 5-7 November 2019, Université de Liège, 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

Plantes médicinales: tradition culturelle et recherche de pointe, November-December 2018, Mons, Belgium

2018

Exhibition: Healing Garden, until 14 December 2018, London, UK

International Conference European Forests – Our Cultural Heritage, 4-7 December 2018

Participation in Cultural Heritage for Mental Health Recovery | International Conference, 29 and 30 November 2018 in Museum Dr. Guislain in Ghent, Belgium

Nature and Culture in Dialogue, EUROPARC and Interpret Europe, the 28th November 2018, Brussels, Belgium

11th European Public Health Conference, Winds of change: towards new ways of improving public health in Europe, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia from 28 November – 1 December 2018

World Forum on Urban Forests, Changing the nature of cities: the role of urban forestry for a green, healthier and happier future, 28 November – 1 December 2018, Mantova, Italy 

Agriculture urbaine : Avenir de la ville de demain ? 24 November 2018

Nov 19 at 9.15-12.00: Re-emergence/emergency walks – Reimagining education, research and the university

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

The Garden: Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community, 8th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE), September 26 -29, 2018, University of Würzburg, Germany

Conférence “Les plantes médicinales dans le paysage urbain contemporain”, 30 September 2018, Lessines, Belgium

International Forest Therapy Days, 6-12 August 2018, Karjalohja, Finland

The 6th Annual Meeting of the Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Association (GP-TCM RA), 4-6 July 2018, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBGK) and London South Bank University (LSBU)

Shared Taste

Nature Connections conference, 20 June 2018, University of Derby, UK

Walking with Saints: protection, devotion and civic identity. The role of the landscape, 24-26 May 2018, Ronse, Belgium

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

Nature and society: synergies, conflicts, trade-offs, Nature and society: synergies, conflicts, trade-offs, Nature and society: synergies, conflicts, trade-offs, 2-4 May 2017, Ghent, Belgium

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

International Conference “Nature and urban wellbeing: nature-based solutions to societal challenges”, 18-20 May, 2015, Ghent, Belgium.