The Forest Festival

Festival

Thursday, 18 July | ~ 15:00-21:00 | Amsterdam City Forest

Delegates celebrated together on Thursday afternoon at the Forest Festival! This was a gathering outside the conference setting; where colleagues could toast, connect and engage in lively conversations, while enjoying a cold beverage, vegetarian dish and live music at the waterfront.

Theatrical interventions

How can – and should – you engage with significant societal challenges in your work?

Using methods of improvisation and starting from observations made during the conference, six actors will engage in (un)comfortably up close and personal conversations about your scholarly involvements with your fields.

Live podcasts

With the Amsterdam City Forest and STS colleagues about how to connect urban nature and transformation-oriented research

  1. On the role of Citizen Science in balancing biodiversity, recreation, and wellbeing in urban nature
  2. On Systems Thinking in Nature, featuring experts in landscape architecture and soil and fungi research

Poetry, flash fiction and short story awards ceremony

Forest Healing ‘Keti Koti’ Dialogue Picnic 

Join your heart with us to explore interethnic and/or interracial reconciliation through personal dialogue and compassionate listening. This immersive and transformative 45-minutes nature-based intervention will touch all your 6 senses and may be the healing you are seeking personally and/or professionally.

Inspired by the Keti Koti Tafel Dialogue – an exemplary initiative to mitigate societal polarization which has been taken up in the immaterial heritage collection of the Amsterdam Museum.

Co-creation
food stand

Co-create your favorite dish with Chotima, a local food initiative and research collaborator of the Athena Institute. Together, you will make up the menu by combining your taste profiles.

Silent disco

Special guest DJ Dead Bob (aka Willem Halffman) dug through his vinyl soul classics: wail-along, hip swinging 60s nostalgia on 45rpm.

Live music

Including Mad Pianos, Ted Pickman, Upstream and Paula Leek