{"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":"2026-05-30T19:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:06:42","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 European projects and partnerships.<\/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 all 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 are 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 an open-access “magazine”: 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. If you would like to be a contributor, write us.<\/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 major events include TNOC Summit<\/a> in Paris (June 2019) and the Food-Water-Energy public event in Sao Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, Brazil (September 2019), a series of virtual Festivals,<\/a> and TNOC Festival Berlin in 2024. The next in-person TNOC Festival will be in Barcelona in 2027.<\/li>\r\n
  3. 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 in three Horizon projects: NetworkNaturePlus<\/a> , HARVEST (for which we are a co-lead), and RELATE4NATURE.<\/li>\r\n
  4. Design outreach, educational, and research materials for urban communities, city managers, practitioners, and researchers on urban ecosystems, green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and biodiversity.<\/li>\r\n
  5. 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>. But there are others, including poetry, fiction, and artist residencies. As part of this project, we offer artist-led workshops on visual storytelling.<\/li>\r\n
  6. Social science methods, including surveys and interview analysis.<\/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
      • David Maddox, New York<\/li>\r\n
      • Siobh\u00e1n McQuaid, Dublin<\/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 European projects and partnerships. 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 knowledge-based […]<\/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":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60950,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32500\/revisions\/60950"}],"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}]}}