Through art and creative, cross-culture, transdisciplinary collaboration, imagining and building cities that nurture humanity’s relationships with urban nature.
FRIEC Editors:
Patrick M. Lydon (Tongyeong) & Carmen Bouyer (Paris)
The Nature of Cities and FRIEC produce an ongoing series of virtual and physical artistic collaborations across geographic, cultural, and ideological borders.
A program of The Nature of Cities (a 501(c)3 public charity), the Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Cultures (FRIEC) is a global platform for urban ecological art that nurtures humanity’s cultural relationships with nature.
We produce place-based multi-sensory storytelling including essays, poetry, books, and films, and collaborative actions and exhibitions including exhibitions, residencies, and transdiciplinary public forums. All of our work aims to inspire direct ecological actions in local landscapes.
We are a place for radical imagination
about what cities could be,
where artists and practitioners of all backgrounds
can come together to:
collaborate with each other,
cities, and nature
challenge the framework
of established knowledge
allow new ideas for sustaining cities
across disciplines, species, and ways of knowing
imagine collaborative movements for livable,
resilient, healthy, poetic cities and regions
in partnership with nature
Our arts projects include Art-Science-Practice Residencies (a project with the US Forest Service), Fiction, Poetry, and Graffiti, and a popular comics series on Nature-Based Solutions.
Artists and creative practitioners from around the world, exploring relationships with the elements of nature in cities.
Thoughts from various disciplines and cultures, revealing how art is related to the roots of ecological wellness in cities and cultures.
To contact us, please write to arts [at] thenatureofcities.com