Urban synergies: Co-creating thriving connections for humans with nature

Earlier this year I was selected to be part of the academic summer school "Urban synergies: Co-creating thriving connections for humans with nature" a week long course that took place in July 2024 organised by Ce3c Centre for Ecology, Evolution and environmental Change at the University of Lisbon and framed as part of the platform Shift COST Action: Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience (SHiFT) COST Action CA21166. More info: www.shift-cost.eu 

As much as I love leading projects, it is also important to be active and participate in others to be feel different dynamics, get engaged in other debates and keep growing by being "out of the confort zone" in such international projects taking place in the "different worlds" I normally inhabit, this time in the academic world. 

The following paragraph is the text presentation of the course:

​"How can we live and thrive together? How can we not only overcome polarities but nurture diversity and dignity for all? How can cities not only adapt to climate change but restore and regenerate relationships with nature, resources and with communities around us? Our approach to the city is an evolving and potentially transformative journey. It involves creative, embodied, and transdisciplinary approaches to learning about current challenges and injustices, drawing new linkages, and to designing change. This summer school invites you to reimagine conviviality and community-building in the city through a transdisciplinary lens."


Thank you to all, organisers, participants and Spore initiative in Berlin as our hosts. I would like to kindly thank to the members of my group from whom I learnt so much from our collaborative embodied learning experience. 

Soon there will be more updates to share as the work done during the course will be part of a collective publication!

Here, I would like to share some visual glimpses of this collective endeavour as well as the resultant certification obtained.

All photos by: Mirella Frangella

Image of most of the group, including trainers and participants 

Final presentation from our collective resultant project

Members of the group: Lukrecija, Helena, Sophi, Zuzia, Benji and myself.