{"id":32500,"date":"2019-09-21T00:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T04:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/?page_id=32500"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:59:40","slug":"europe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Cities Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The Nature of Cities\u2014Europe <\/strong>is an independent partner organization to\u00a0TNOC\u2014Global.<\/a> TNOC-Europe is a Registered Charity in Ireland, formed in 2018 to work on projects specifically involving European cities.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Nature of Cities\u2014Europe<\/strong> co-publishes at our partner site: www.thenatureofcities.com<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Stay in touch: write us at: TNOC-Europe.Admin@thenatureofcities.eu<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What We Do<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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NBS Comics and Science2Story are projects funded by Horizon Europe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

We support the creation and use of knowledge-based solutions that make cities better for both people and nature.<\/p>\r\n

The mission of The Nature of Cities-Europe is to curate joined conversations about urbanism across ways of knowing and modes of action. We create transdisciplinary, publicly available, and widely disseminated programs, events, knowledge, and engagements for green city making.<\/p>\r\n

European Projects<\/strong>. TNOC-Europe (a registered charity in Ireland) participates in and occasionally leads projects with European consortia (PIC 907105007), including Horizon projects and others. We welcome collaborations of all sorts in Europe. Our roles in European projects is diverse, but here are some examples: arts integration<\/strong> in science, policy, and community engagement (e.g., comics, Science2Story, fiction, theatre, murals, artist residencies); \u00a0productive and inclusive participatory methods<\/strong> with professionals and communities; innovative events<\/strong>; social science methods<\/strong> in evaluation, surveys, and community building; communications,<\/strong> dissemination, publishing.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

We strive for cities worldwide that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just.\u00a0We work to achieve this in several ways:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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  1. Publish open access, web-based articles, essays, and discussion forums by writers, thinkers, creators, and activists, focusing on ideas that are transdisciplinary and at the frontiers where science, design, planning, and art meet. We crave creativity in all forms and from all sources.<\/li>\r\n
  2. Create public symposia and transdisciplinary engagements designed to increase knowledge and citizen engagement in creative cultures, urban nature, planning, design, and placemaking. Recent events include\u00a0TNOC Summit<\/a>\u00a0in Paris (June 2019) and the Food-Water-Energy public event in Sao Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Brazil (September 2019), and a series of virtual Festivals<\/a>. The next in-person TNOC event with be in Europe in 2024.<\/li>\r\n
  3. Design outreach, educational, and research materials for urban communities, city managers, practitioners, and researchers on the subjects of urban ecosystems, green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and biodiversity.<\/li>\r\n
  4. Create programs that engage arts, culture, science, and action together in joined spaces. NBS (nature-based solutions) Comics<\/a> is a project of TNOC-Europe, in collaboration with NetworkNature<\/a>. As part of this project, we offer artist-led workshops on visual storytelling.<\/li>\r\n
  5. Conduct place- and knowledge-based projects with partner organizations in Europe and on a global scale, integrating ways of knowing and modes of action. For example, TNOC-Europe is a partner in the NetworkNaturePlus<\/a> consortium, funded by the European Commission; a a partner in the recently complete Belmont Forum project, IFWEN<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n
  6. Create specific language-based projects, such as TNOC Francophone<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n
  7. Stimulate, engage, and provoke citizens, artists, planners, designers, and scientists to explore new ways to envision better cities\u2014cities that are sustainable, resilient, livable, and just.<\/li>\r\n
  8. Conducting place-based projects with partner organizations in various countries.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    Our Directors<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    TNOC\u2014Europe<\/strong>\u00a0is a Registered Charity in Ireland (No. 621611).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    TNOC-Europe Directors (2018-2026):<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    • Marcus Collier, Dublin<\/li>\r\n
    • David Maddox, New York<\/li>\r\n
    • Siobh\u00e1n McQuaid, Dublin<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

      Members (governing board of TNOC, 2026):<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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      • Marcus Collier, Dublin<\/li>\r\n
      • Martha Fajardo, Bogot\u00e1<\/li>\r\n
      • David Haley, Whaley Island (Scotland)<\/li>\r\n
      • Oliver Hillel, Montreal<\/li>\r\n
      • Mike Houck, Portland<\/li>\r\n
      • Robin Lasser, San Jose (California)<\/li>\r\n
      • Gilles Lecuir, Paris<\/li>\r\n
      • David Maddox, New York<\/li>\r\n
      • Siobh\u00e1n McQuaid, Dublin<\/li>\r\n
      • Mary W. Rowe, Toronto<\/li>\r\n
      • Chantal van Ham, Brussels<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        The Nature of Cities\u2014Europe is an independent partner organization to\u00a0TNOC\u2014Global. TNOC-Europe is a Registered Charity in Ireland, formed in 2018 to work on projects specifically involving European cities. The Nature of Cities\u2014Europe co-publishes at our partner site: www.thenatureofcities.com. Stay in touch: write us at: TNOC-Europe.Admin@thenatureofcities.eu What We Do We support the creation and use of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27396,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[938],"tags":[],"coauthors":[118],"class_list":["post-32500","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32500"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60122,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32500\/revisions\/60122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32500"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=32500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}