Plenary Highlights
Keynote talks and transdisciplinary conversations from diverse geographies and points of view. The plenary sessions at TNOC Festival 2022 push boundaries to radically imagine our cities for the future.
DAY 1
![Anacláudia Rossbach
City: São Paulo
Topic: Cidades, palco para transformacão global // Cities, the stage for global transformation](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Anaclaudia-Rossbach.png)
![Dialogue - Nature for All: Uprooting Structural Inequity](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-3.png)
![Keynote - Julian Agyemen
City: Boston
Topic: Just Sustainabilities in Policy, Planning and Practice](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Web-TNOC-Keynote-Card-Dialogues-DAY1.png)
![Keynote - P.K. Das
City: Mumbai
Architect & Activist](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/P.K.-Das.png)
![Plenary Art: Roda de Força by VJ Suave](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Roda-de-Forca.png)
![Plenary Art: WE ARE, OUR NATURE by Maria Mariano](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/our-nature.png)
![Dialogue - Finance and Entrepreneurship in Urban Green](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-1.png)
![Dialogue - Beyond Dystopias: Can fiction help shape the urban imaginary for a better future?](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-4.png)
![Keynote - Marina Ruta
City: Geneva
Topic: BiodiverCities by 2030 World Economic Forum](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Marina-Ruta.png)
![Keynote - Stefano Boeri
City: Milan](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Stefano-Boeri.png)
![Plenary Art: What is Solarpunk by Saint Andrew](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/what-is-solarpunk.png)
![Plenary Art: Percepción Nº2 by Guido Bressan](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/perception-no2.png)
![Dialogue - It's in the game? Gaming and simulations that engage people about urban natures
Presenters: Ekim Tan, Paul Mahoney, Amanda Phillips de Lucas
Moderator: Liza Paqueo](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-2.png)
![Keynote - Jala Makhzoumi
City: London
Landscape Architect](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Jala-Makhzoumi.png)
![Keynote - Nándor Tanczos
City: Whakatanei
Topic: PERMING THE COUNCIL - Attempting to apply permaculture whole systems thinking to a local council district in Aotearoa New Zealand](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Nandor-Tanczos.png)
![Keynote - Xuemei Bai
City: Canberra
Topic: Urban science and policy for global sustainability](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Xuemei-Bai.png)
![Plenary Art: A River in Eden by Susanna Battin](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a-river-in-eden.png)
![Plenary Art: Pista de Baile Campo Risso by Proyecto Intemperie](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/pista-de-baile.png)
DAY 2
![Keynote - Weiqi Zhou
City: Beijing
Topic: Urban trees for climate change mitigation and adaptation in cities](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Weiqi-Zhou.png)
![Dialogue - Toward a New Normal: Enabling Change Led by Youth](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-6.png)
![Keynote - Eric Sanderson
City: New York](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Eric-Sanderson.png)
![Keynote - Mary Rowe
City: Toronto
Topic: Investing the Covid dividend for resilient cities](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Mary-Rowe.png)
![Plenary Art: Hold Sacred by WindSync and Akshaya Avril Tucker](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hold-sacred.png)
![Plenary Art: Somatic Spaces | Act I by Isabel Rodriguez Ramos](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/somatic-spaces.png)
![Dialogue - What are the knowledge gaps that limit conversations between urban planners, urban designers and ecologists? How we fill them? Is it even about knowledge?](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Web-Keynote-Card-Dialogues-DAY2.png)
![Dialogue - How can artists and scientist co-create innovation to sustain and regenerate local ecosystems?](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-7.png)
![Keynote - Hannah Simmonds & Erin Green
City: Whakatanei
Topic: Healthy, resilient children and communities in Aotearoa NZ through transformed outdoor spaces](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Hannah-Simmonds-Erin-Green.png)
![Keynote - Robin Lasser
City: San José
Topic: Breathing Fire / Dress Tents / Migratory Cultures: Deep listening, collaboration, community engagement and radical imagination + awareness and awesome public art for resilient cities](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Robin-Lasser.png)
![Plenary Art: Aquapolis 2100: by artist collective /rive (Laura Chipley, Samara Smith and A.E. Souzis)](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/aquapolis.png)
![Dialogue - It's Messy? Rewilding as a design concept for better cities for nature and all people
Presenters: Nina Marie Lister, Wolfgang Weisser, Karine Schultz](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-6-2.png)
![Dialogue - EqualiTREE? Trees are not equitably dispersed in cities. How would we make it so?
Presenters: Kelly Herzog, Vivek Shandas, Raed Mansour
Moderator: Jacob Koch](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-8.png)
![Keynote - Mary Perpetua Kwakuyi
City: Ghana
Topic: Mitigating the effects of urbanization and sustaining the ecosystem](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Mary-Perpetua-Kwakuyi.png)
![Keynote - Thomas Delage
City: France
Topic: French Agency for Biodiversity](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Thomas-Delage.png)
![Plenary Art: Metropolis of Eden by Sparkbird (Stephan Nance)](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/metropolis-of-eden.png)
DAY 3
![Keynote - Ana María Duran
City: Quito
Topic: Amazonian Highways: From Pathways of Destruction to Channels for Forest Resurgence, Cultural Revitalization, and Community-based Economies of Life](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Ana-Maria-Duran.png)
![Dialogue - Cities in the Amazon Region: what are their status, challenges, and prospects?
Presenters: Belen Desmaison, Gustavo Duran, Tatiana Schor
Moderator: Juan Guhi](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-11.png)
![Keynote - Martha Fajardo
City: Bogotá
Topic: LALI: Breaking down siloes with many voices in Latin America](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Martha-Fajardo.png)
![Plenary Art: Paysages Passages by Antinea Jimena](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/paysages.png)
![Keynote - Bjorn Low
City: Singapore
Topic: The emergence of a new agriculture paradigm](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bjorn-Low.png)
![Keynote - Jeanne D'Arc Mujawamariya
City: Rwanda
Minister for the Environment](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Jeanne-DArc-Mujawamariya.png)
![Keynote - Peepal Baba
City: Delhi
Topic: Sacred trees as a tool for community engagement](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Peepal-Baba.png)
![Plenary Art: Union of Trades by Jaime Jackson](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/union-of-trades.png)
![Dialogue - What innovative roles can the metropolis play in promoting cultural and natural heritage?](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dialogue-Plenary-10.png)
![Keynote - Jo Barton
City: Essex
Topic: Why nature in cities is important for health](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Jo-Barton.png)
![Plenary Art: Flor subita by María José Pérez and Castro Pérez](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/flor-subita.png)
![Plenary Art: Record for Flavor of Floating Life by Eun Sun Heo](https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/floating-life.png)
Keynote talks and transdisciplinary conversations from diverse geographies and points of view. The plenary sessions at TNOC Festival 2022 push boundaries to radically imagine our cities for the future.