Patrick M. Lydon
Tongyeong
An American ecological writer and artist based in East Asia, Patrick uses story and community-based actions to help us rediscover our roles as ecological beings. He has written for YES! Magazine, Kyoto Journal, and Routeledge Press, and has produced exhibitions, workshops, films, essays, restaurants, natural gardens, and other award-winning projects in North America, Europe, and Asia, many of them together with TNOC. Together with his wife Suhee Kang, Lydon co-directed the film Food, Earth, Happiness. He currently writes a series called The Possible City and is co-founder of City as Nature, and one of your friendly Arts Editors here at The Nature of Cities. Lydon studied at The University of Edinburgh, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (MFA), Aichi University of the Arts (visiting artist), and San Jose State University (BA). He also thoroughly enjoys learning from trees, soil, wind, the sea, as well as kids and elders.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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A new rurality is emerging—not nostalgic, but reinvented. Can we move beyond urban-rural divides and embrace the fluid, interwoven realities of today’s landscapes in ways that foster resilience, innovation, and equity?
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The Urban Art Laboratories: During The Nature of Cities Festival 2024, a series of conjunct artistic and ecological actions took place in various parts of the world. What happened?
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The goal is to mainstream Nature-based Solutions, by widening public acceptance and making it the standard and default practice of urban design. What will it take to get there?
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Plaidoyer for Transdisciplinarity, Local Agency, and Creative Co-Creation in Horizon Europe and the New European Bauhaus
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Visual storytelling: Can comics help us advance solutions to our social and environmental challenges? Yes
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We have had trouble getting people’s attention about climate change. Some climate activists glued themself to a van Gogh painting (and others). Is this helpful?
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Artists and scientists that co-create regenerative projects in cities?
Yes, please. But how? -
Photo Essay: Seoul and the Call of the Urban Wild
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How is COVID-19 affecting caring for and researching urban ecology?
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We Had Forgotten That We Are Ecological Beings
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Covid has upended all the normal routines in our lives and work. How do you imagine you might be changed by it, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”?
Africa, Awareness, Biodiversity, Climate change, Communities, Conservation, Covid-19, Culture, Disasters/Red zone, Economics, Ecosystem services, Europe, Experiencing Nature, Green Infrastructure, Health, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Pollution, Resilience, South America, Sustainability, Wildlife People Interactions -
Nature in Korea’s Capital: The Magic Stops at the Car Bridge
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Cloud Cities, Melting Cities: A Review of Yumiko Ono’s “Epitomes” at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
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City as Nature Festival, Osaka, Japan
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How is the concept of “stewardship” and “care for local environments” expressed around the world?
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The spirit of Dada welcomes you to TNOC Summit: What is the nature of the city of our dreams?
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French Landscape Painters and the Nature of Paris
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What did you read in 2018 that moved you?
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Our goal is to empower cities to plan for a positive natural future. What is one specific action that should be taken to achieve this goal?
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A City Designed by Trees
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When a Korean Hillside Town Disappears, Who will Notice?
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Artists in Conversation with Water in Cities
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Artists in Conversation with Air in Cities
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What the Garden-Hacking Grandmas and Grandpas of South Korea Know
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Drought and Flood: A Silicon Valley Museum Explores Water, Society, and City
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Finding Nature in the Walls of a Power Station
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Farmers, Chefs, and Lawyers: Building an Ecology of One
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Visions of resilience: Eighteen artists say or show something in response to the word “resilience”
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Graffiti and street art can be controversial, but can also be a medium for voices of social change, protest, or expressions of community desire. What, how, and where are examples of graffiti as a positive force in communities?
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Intertwining People, Nature, and Place with Quilts and Thread