Join a global community of changemakers, mixing art, science, and urban practice to build better cities for nature and all people.
TNOC Festival 2026
in early planning
Our Earth Sponsors
TNOC Festival is part conference, part radical imagination, part retreat.
Join us at TNOC events to collaborate, learn, present, and to meet hundreds of new best friends and urban nature co-conspirators.
A week of action, inspiration, and change
A global community of urban thinkers and change-makers come together at Atelier Gardens, a campus for urban regeneration, to build cities that are better for nature and all people by mixing art, science, and urban practice.
THE VENUE: ATELIER GARDENS
WE CONVENE at Atelier Gardens in Berlin, whose motto is
“Celebrating Soul, Soil, Society.”
THE VENUE underlines the ambition for a holistic approach to regenerative life in the city, and the belief that human beings, in principle, are capable of making a helpful contribution to life on Earth.
Atelier Gardens
Oberlandstraße 26-35
12099 Berlin, Germany
info@atelier-gardens.berlin
+49 (0)30 75 782 100
THE FOOD
LUNCHES by
ROOTS RADICALS
a sustainable food company that aims to reconnect people to good food and empower us into changing our lifestyle habits into more sustainable ones. Through circular economy and a strong upcycling concept in our cooking, we offer a new way to look into food, and learn to respect it.
THREE FARM TO TABLE DINNERS
DINNER SPACE IS VERY LIMITED, SO BOOK YOUR SEAT SOON!
Tuesday, June 4 at HAPPA
[NEARLY SOLD OUT] Featuring a Berlin farm to table dinner featuring aperitif, family-style vegan meal, and talks by experts
Wednesday, June 5 at CAFE BOTANICO
[FEW SEATS LEFT] Featuring a permaculture garden tour, talks by the chef, farmer & a scientist
Thursday, June 6 at MICHELBERGER RESTAURANT
[NEARLY SOLD OUT] Featuring food forest dining, guided by seasonal offerings, and talks by specialists
*Dinner events are booked in the TNOC Festival Sched as optional events.
Click the button above, and look for “Reserve Tickets” in your Sched profile.
You can also book directly by contacting us through email at tnocfestival@thenatureofcities.com
THE NATURE OF CITIES FESTIVAL 2024
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN DREAMS AND REALITY IS ACTION
3-7 June
Berlin
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
A SELECTION FROM OUR DIVERSE PROGRAM OF EVENTS AND SESSIONS.
PREVIEW MORE FESTIVAL CONTENT, INCLUDING SEED SESSIONS AND FIELD TRIPS, ON THE SCHED PLATFORM.
ARTS HIGHLIGHTS
The Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Cultures (FRIEC) at TNOC presents Echoes of Earth.
Each of us has a power, to remember the voices of the Earth in the places where we each live, and to cultivate a culture that honors this. The works in the TNOC Festival exhibition aspire to bring echoes from past to future, and to foster deep, sustained connections between people, practices, and the natural world.
THAT WAS JUST A PEEK!
MORE SESSIONS, KEYNOTES, TALKS, WORKSHOPS, ARTS, AND EVENTS ON THE SCHED PLATFORM.
LEARN MORE
Berlin Festival Package
3-7 June 2024
The Berlin segment is an all-inclusive multi-day experience featuring field-trips, in person talks, workshops, art interventions, a film festival, food, various opportunities for socializing, and much more. All of it takes place at the Atilier Gardens venue, and various other locations around Berlin.
and more …
+ OPTIONAL Farm-to-table dinners
+ TNOC Festival party (AND AFTER-PARTY, AT YOUR OWN RISK)
+ BE listed as an attendee and/or session organizer in the Festival’s digital book
+ Festival badge, coat and bag check at the venue
+ festival mug generously gifted by Deutsche Wildtier Stiftung
+ festival tote bag
TNOC Festival is a Commons
Our team works to lower barriers to participation to ensure an inclusive, diverse event. With each festival ticket sold, a portion of the registration fee goes to support travel grants, to bring festival goers from around the world who otherwise would not have been able to join us.
Everyone’s financial contribution, however small, is important
Paying for Festival registration helps the Nature of Cities keep all the programming and content in our organization free and open source for everyone to benefit from. Your registration helps us continue to create and produce in a common space.
Register to Attend the Festival
Registration is open globally, with many options to remove barriers to participation. Many tickets have limited availability. Sign up for your sessions early, to ensure your spot!
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TNOC Festival is knowledge-centered, knowledge-led, and action-driven. The 2024 theme of “Action” focuses our attention on translating knowledge from various sources to results on the ground.
We believe that knowledge comes from many sources.
We design innovative programming in multiple languages, across time zones, in our interconnected virtual and in person format.
We foster inclusivity and lower barriers to participation.
We break down silos in cities by practicing active transdisciplinarity.
AN EVENT WITH A LASTING IMPACT
we encourage participants to publish essays, roundtables, findings, and other outputs after the event at TNOC’s website, which reaches over 100,000 readers a month, from 75+ countries
we curate a growing network of collaborators — a community that continues to work together after each festival
in 2024 we are slated to publish a digital book of tools and insights on action, co-produced by the participants of the Festival, with editorial leadership from TNOC
RADICALLY IMAGINATIVE PROGRAMMING
TNOC Festival programming is transdisciplinary and innovative. With multiple session types, the program is designed to push the boundaries of collaborative engagement by mixing the arts, sciences, urban practice fields, and performance to draw urban thought leaders and changemakers together to build better cities.
Session Types
SEED SESSIONS
Small interactive workshops that explore an idea, project, or direct action in cities.
SKILLS SESSIONS
Interactive workshops where you preset or teach festival attendees a new skill or idea.
DIALOGUES AND KEYNOTES
Short talks and transdisciplinary conversations. Keynotes from diverse geographies and points of view.
FIELD TRIPS
Join live-narrated video tours through various cities around the world. There will also be in-person field trips in Berlin.
MICROTALKS
Short pre-recorded video talks submitted by you. A gallery of urban ideas from diverse thought leaders.
ART, STORY, FILM & PERFORMANCE
Attend a performance, listen to a reading, participate in collaborative art to build creative human-nature connections.
WORKING GROUPS
Create a meeting within a meeting where your team builds an idea hive, or cluster of seed sessions, within TNOC Festival.
Ready to Join Us?
Registration is open globally, with many options to remove barriers to participation. Many tickets have limited availability. Sign up for your sessions early, to ensure your spot!
Partner with TNOC
EARTH SPONSOR
FOREST SPONSOR
TREE SPONSOR
SEED SPONSOR
If you’d like to discuss partnering with TNOC Festival, write us: mlisa.colbert@thenatureofcities.com
TNOC Festival 2024 Partners
so far…
Since 2019, TNOC Festival has enjoyed the support of multiple partners from across the globe. We are currently growing the list of supports and partners of 2024. Will you join us?
EARTH SPONSORS
FOREST SPONSORS
TREE SPONSORS
SEED SPONSORS
Past TNOC Events
About The Nature of Cities
We are The Nature of Cities (TNOC), and the word “of” modifies Nature to mean the character of cities, which we view through a green and blue and community lens. We believe the route to cities that are better for both people and nature is through transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. The mission of The Nature of Cities 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. We strive for cities worldwide that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just.
About the TNOC Festival Logo
Our Festival logo was designed by Frida Larios. It conveys a sense of human connection among us as we steward nature and community in cities. The seeds depicted in the logo are shared ideas both dispersed and gathered. Hands are common in Mayan symbology and can mean both to throw or scatter and to receive. In many traditions, the open hand signifies greeting, welcome, and openness.
Donating to the TNOC Festival
Thank you for considering a donation to TNOC festival. For this festival to be a success, attendance must be diverse and transdisciplinary in every sense, from south to north, and east to west. But often people, and especially practitioners, can struggle to pay for even modest registration fees. By donating to TNOC festival, you help support free entry for those who cannot pay and help us keep registration fees very low. We want to ensure that anyone who wants to attend the festival can do so. Thank you for generously supporting this effort.
A gift of any amount helps. We are grateful for your generosity.
Sincerely,
TNOC Festival team
Contact us:
General Inquires:
TNOCFestival@thenatureofcities.com
Partnership and Media Inquiries:
david.maddox@thenatureofcities.com
mlisa.colbert@thenatureofcities.com
image credits
Photographs used on this website are from The 2019 Nature of Cities Summit in Paris.
Lead Photographer: Elsa Ferreux
with contributions from Robert Feller, Valerie Gwinner, Chris Mann, Patrick Lydon
Members of the Press
Journalists, documentarians, and writers are welcome here, too. The button below will take you to a Google Drive folder where all of our press information lives. Come join us.
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