Join a global community of changemakers, mixing art, science, and urban practice to build better cities for nature and all people.
15-26 April — Virtual
3-7 June — Berlin
Our Earth Sponsors
REGISTRATION OPTIONS
Some attendees live in cities where the price of admission for this festival is an entire month’s salary. Yet all of us want these voices to be heard. To support these friends, please pay for registration if you can afford it, and consider making an additional donation during the registration process, or at any time during the festival.
We are a small organization with an ambitious event. Please help as you are able. There is a donation option in the ticket list, which can can return to at any time: you can donation €100. Your contribution directly supports inclusivity, ensuring TNOC Festival continues to be a gathering that welcomes a diversity of voices like no other!
There are multiple registration options, including single day tickets to the virtual segment for as little as €10, plus the opportunity to donate money to help others attend.
Alert: Register early and create a schedule. With our emphasis on small groups, sessions are already filling up!
A note about attendance during the virtual segment. All virtual events struggle with people not showing up for sessions that they have signed up for. This can be discouraging for session leader who have put they heart and a lot of effort into planning. When you sign up for virtual sessions, please record them in your personal calendars.
Berlin Ticket Options (3-7 June) and virtual (15-26 April)
- Berlin + Virtual All Access €500
- Berlin 1 day pass €150
- Various Field Trips + Special Events
- Extra donation option
Virtual Ticket Options (15-26 April)
- Virtual Festival All Access €65
- Virtual Festival 2 day pass €20
- Virtual Festival 1 day pass €10
- Extra donation option
OPTION 1: SIGN UP FOR VIRTUAL and BERLIN SEGMENTS IN ONE PLACE
Use this option to register with your credit card or coupon code. You can choose between virtual-only or Berlin+virtual segments.
OPTION 2: USE ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT METHODS
If you prefer to use alternative payment methods such as ApplePay, PayPal, or others, please select the appropriate option below.
THE NATURE OF CITIES FESTIVAL 2024
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN DREAMS AND REALITY IS ACTION
15-26 April — Virtual
3-7 June — Berlin
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
BELOW IS AN EVER-CHANGING SELECTION FROM OUR DIVERSE PROGRAM OF OVER 300 EVENTS AND SESSIONS.
PREVIEW MORE FESTIVAL CONTENT ON THE SCHED PLATFORM.
THAT WAS JUST A WEE PEEK.
SEE ALL 400+ SESSIONS, KEYNOTES, TALKS, WORKSHOPS, ARTS, AND EVENTS ON THE SCHED PLATFORM.
LEARN MORE
TNOC Festival is part conference, part radical imagination, part retreat.
You can join virtually or in-person to get inspired, to learn, to present, collaborate, or to meet hundreds of new best friends and urban nature co-conspirators.
Join us for three weeks of interconnected events.
Take part in a global community of urban thinkers and changemakers to build cities that are better for nature and all people by mixing art, science, and urban practice.
Virtual Festival Package
15-26 April 2024
The virtual segment includes talks, workshops, art, films, field-trips, opportunities to make social connections, and more. All of it takes place online over the course of 10 days in multiple languages and time zones throughout the world.
and more …
+ VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
+ MEET NEW BEST FRIENDS AND CO-CONSPIRATORS
+ SECRET VIRTUAL ART PARTIES (OOPS. NOT SECRET ANYMORE.)
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.