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Category: City

Giving and receiving with joy – inspiring insights from Robin Wall Kimmerer on a positive partnership with Nature

Febrary 2024

by Philip Harms and Maeve Hofer

Introduction
What defines a good partnership? In a positive partnership, we are committed to each other, support each other and give each other attention ...

Patagonia – a place for resonant relationships?

June 2023

by Maike Hering

How it comes to an essay about resonance in Chilean Patagonia
I started working as a research assistant for the URBNANCE project in Dresden in August 2022 and only a few days after the beginning ...

Lending nature our voice - role play in search of partnerships with nature

November 2022

by Philip Harms

Today, crises and interwoven dystopian visions of the future often dominate the news. In this essay, we turn the page and share ideas for a positive future!

Admittedly, futures can be many ...


Moving from crisis to resonance: A summer cinema

October 2022

by Philip Harms, Susanne Müller, Mabel Killinger and Martina Artmann

Films tell stories, they touch and move their audience. In this vein, the summer cinema offered the opportunity to experience nature, care about her, and be touched by her beauty ...

The need for self-efficacy in times of powerlessness.
Caring for nature in the city.

September 2022

by Mabel Killinger

At the beginning of August I was confronted with a small piece of paper at the door of my apartment building: "Dear Neighbors, The young trees on the Johannstadt Elbwiesen still urgently need our help. ...

First insights on human-food relations through the interaction with urban dwellers in Dresden

May 2022

by Mabel Killinger

Have you ever taken the time to think about the relation you hold with the food you eat every day, with the food nature is providing us human beings, the food which is grown for us by other members of society? ...


Nurturing our relation with nature and ourselves in the dark season

December 2021

by Martina Artmann

With the last months of the year, the days get shorter, darker, and cooler again here in Germany. This time of the year might feel for many of us like having the demand for more quietness, sleep, and introspective while in summer we are more active and playful ...