Exhibitions

City as Nature produces both individual exhibitions and collaborations that explore new ways of knowing our cities through art, culture, and environmental landscapes, uncovering moments and places where humans and our cities are intertwined with nature. Our work helps cultivate more equitable relationships between ourselves, our cities, our industries, and the environment.

City as Nature Festival, Osaka

City as Nature Festival, Osaka

Join a celebration and a journey through art, music, culture, and environmental landscapes in Osaka’s port-side creative village. シティーズネイチャーフェスティバルは皆のためのお祝いです。自然と水をテーマにした展覧会やトークイベント、ワークショップなどを行うアートフェスティバル。

Osakako Mandala

Osakako Mandala

Comprising over 7,000 individual leaves collected from beneath a tree, this temporary ‘meditative” installation was created in public view over the course of four weeks at Contemporary Art Space Osaka as part of the Robert Callender International Residency.

Centre for Endless Growth

Centre for Endless Growth

A complete disconnection of our modern concept of “economic growth” from the reality of “natural growth” on this earth has created the most spectacular ecological issues humanity has ever seen. As a response, we built a temporary ‘research centre’ at the University of Edinburgh’s TENT Gallery; a suggestion to reconnect our ideas of economic growth with the natural growth that all of our systems are in the end, realistically bound to.

[HUMAN:NATURE] Megijima

[HUMAN:NATURE] Megijima

How do we revitalize dwindling communities? First, we learn about what they are and why they are important. This was a two-month community-based project that fused old-fashioned community interactions with web-based interactive media, allowing islanders and visitors to explore the hidden links between people, culture, and ecology on a small island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea.