Into the woods

A one-week studio together with Peter Veenstra of LOLA Landscape Architects and ecologist Ronald Buiting, we will explore strategies for radically greening our cities by creating a micro forest.

Planting trees has become a popular project for local and national governments all around the world to combat climate change and to increase biodiversity. While expanding, regenerating and rewilding large natural areas are important strategies to create diverse and healthy carbon-storing ecosystems, there are also many reasons to radically green our urban areas: trees capture CO2 and clean the air, they cool down our cities, they can help regulate ecosystems, they improve our health and give people a sense of well-being.

In this workshop we will follow an ecological and hands-on approach and use the natural reproductivity of nature by harvesting and replanting seedlings. We will create our own micro forest, taking a layered approach starting from the soil up to the top of the trees, while specifically looking at the biodiverse value of what we are planting and what a new forest needs to survive.

Register before 07 October 2024. Tickets are available for 250 euro. Special fees apply for special situations. For more info please send an email to [email protected].

Independent School for the City

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