Art & Ecology Chapter in “Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology” (2nd ed.)
We are pleased to announce our contribution to this volume from Routledge, which covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries.
Media Lab
Our media lab produces in-depth stories in word, image, and film, illuminating the people and places that are leading the transition towards social and ecological wellness.
Sumiyoshi: Cities and the Sea
A short multimedia story inspired by the fishermen of a Japanese port village in the Seto Inland Sea, a place where city, sea, and forest are intertwined.
Cities, Trains, and Cultures in a Pandemic
A journey between Japan and Korea in these times, means government health checkpoints, special bullet trains, hazmat teams, and disinfectant baths. Through it all, different ways of viewing ourselves, our cities, and viruses, become clear.
We Had Forgotten We are Ecological Beings
In this time of slowness, natural farmers in Japan’s countryside remind us that everyone has the ability to listen to nature. But can city dwellers really learn?
Learning Natural Food: Story of a Young Taiwanese Farmer
City as Nature visits the countryside of Kaohsiung to talk with a young farmer about his choice to leave the city and start a natural chicken farm with his family in Taiwan.
The Mind, Farm, and Life of Masanobu Fukuoka – Larry Korn Interview Series
A three part interview film series by City as Nature, exploring the philosophy of natural farming, and how to apply it to life.
Shotengai: Shopping Streets and Bicycles
Explore an old Japanese neighborhood where few people would consider going to the market in a car. In Kagaya, bicycles and pedestrians rule the road.
A Japanese Neighborhood Where Time Stopped: Virtue in Slowness
Stories and images from Kitakagaya, an old Osaka neighborhood with little money, yet a wealth of strange, beautiful, and useful ways of approaching life, work, and cities.
Slow Village, Cute Organic Lawnmowers
Nothing much of interest to GDP or the stock market ever happens in Urugi Village. Yet there is an unexpectedly resilient human ecosystem here. What answers could places like Urugi offer for an environmentally-sane future?
Food, Earth, Happiness
The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet we’ve had a simple answer for millennia…
One Minute of Traditional Mochi Making
Part of a series of short meditative films, putting you in the midst of nature-connected cultures and places around the world.
A City, Designed by Trees
Seeing trees as sacred is not an anomaly, it’s the fact that our culture has somehow lost this fellowship that’s an anomaly. If trees are a keystone of our wellness, why not learn to listen to their voice? If we did, how might the things we hear transform the landscape of our city over time? What would a city look like if it were designed by trees?