Community-engaged ecological arts exhibitions forums, workshops, and artist-led interventions for catalyzing sustainable thinking and action.
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions and collaborations to explore new ways of knowing cities through art, culture, and environmental landscapes, uncovering moments and places where humans and our cities are intertwined with nature.
City as Nature Festival, Osaka
Join a celebration and a journey through art, music, culture, and environmental landscapes in Osaka’s…
Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Knowledge (FRIEK)
Taking place within a global academic conference on urban nature, FRIEK plays the role of…
Forest is the Artist
A Korean forest known as “Gomsil” is having its own art exhibition in Seoul, and…
“With Nature” Exhibition and Workshop at MUJI
Invited by the Japanese retailer MUJI, to host a series about ‘connecting to nature’ in…
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Community-based arts and environment projects inspiring individuals and communities to re-kindle their relationships with the environment.
Making a Natural ‘Pocket Park’ in Japan
With only a few weeks to work, we tried to turn vacant urban land into…
The Branch, Osaka
An ecological art lab and pocket farm located in Osaka, Japan conceived and built by…
REALtimeFOOD (world’s slowest restaurant)
A temporary restaurant is the opening scene for a multiple-month community based arts and ecology…
Urban Pocket Farm
Built along natural farming principals, we transform an empty urban lot into a natural garden…
WORKSHOPS
From food to nature meditation, we have produced or co-produced over 100 artist-led workshops internationally, for people of all ages. All workshops are based in a mindful exploration of place.
Nature Mandala (aka: Finding Nature in a Shopping Mall)
For two hours, we asked shoppers in the world’s largest MUJI store (無印良品) near Osaka,…
Feel.City.Nature
A “sensing” exercise that helps participants focus their sense and awareness of a place, and…
Nature Mandala
A team building exercise where groups work together to build a giant mandala from locally-foraged…
Plant and Place
Participants learn simple ways to preserve and use plants to make postcards, exploring the shapes,…