TNOC Festival 2024 Berlin – Registration is Open!

Join a global community of changemakers, mixing art, science, and urban practice to build better cities for nature and all people.

The Nature of Cities Festival 2024

3-7 June 2024
Atelier Gardens
Berlin

Our Earth Sponsors

TNOC Festival is part conference, part radical imagination, part retreat.

Join us this Summer in Berlin 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.

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.

Share, Learn, Play, and Explore with us in Berlin
Experience TNOC Festival at the experimental Atelier Gardens campus in the beautiful month of June, and enjoy Berlin like you’ve never seen before.
An all inclusive retreat for your mind and spirit to re-invigorate your work
Delicious, ecological lunches catered by Roots Radicals, with tons of art, music, and interactive activities between sessions.
Experience immersive ecological art
Immersive urban nature art, collective muraling, open studios, performances, pop-up workshops, film festival, and more surprises from FRIEC.
Connect with diverse and inspiring people in-person
Meet 350+ thinkers and doers from 50 countries, including partners from City of Berlin, UN-Habitat, ICLEI, IUCN, Nature Conservancy, and more!
Radically imaginative programming
Three days of inspiring keynotes, dialogues, participatory seed sessions, exploratory skills sessions, and dozens of other ways to learn, grow, and act.

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 

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.

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.