Budapest100 KÖZ/ZÖLD Professional day // Urban nature - integrated approaches
Since 2022, Budapest100 has traditionally started with a professional day. In connection with this year's theme of the festival, urban green spaces, we are organising a conference on 22 May entitled "Urban Nature - Integrated Approaches". The aim of the event is to explore our relationship with urban nature, to examine different approaches and to initiate new dialogues by bringing together different perspectives.
Schedule
Detailed programme of the conference:
9:00-9:30 ARRIVAL, REGISTRATION
9:30 A.M. WELCOME
9:40-11:30 A.M. SESSION I
Urban nature is not only a physical space, but also a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon that can be understood in the light of literature, art and philosophy. What are the roots of the human-nature relationship? Are urban man's culture and the natural environment separate? If so, where and how? How is this reflected in works of art and literature?
9:40 Far from the Garden of Eden. The meaning of nature in the post-Human era
Gerda Széplaky, philosopher, aesthete, Associate Professor, EKKE
10:15 "It is evening and I am sitting on the terrace, the world around me, the city below me, in a semicircle like a giant keyboard... and the finger of God is writing on it!"
Violetta Tóth Varga PhD, clinical psychologist, ELTE PPK Institute of Human-Environment Transaction
Co-author: Attila Dobai Marcelián, Assistant Professor, Institute of Human-Environment Transaction, ELTE PPK
10:35 Fragments of Nature Images - Critical Reflection
Edit Blaumann cinematographer, AI image writer, lecturer at MOME and METU, PhD student
10:55 From Polis to Terrapolis: From the "healthy city" to the natural cultural order
Ádám Lovász, philosopher, postdoctoral researcher at the ELTE Institute of Philosophy and the Batthyány Lajos Foundation
11:15 Lomboldal - the poetics and practices of connecting to urban nature
Mátyás Sirokai poet
11:30-13:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00-14:50 SESSION II.
After having explored some aesthetic, philosophical and cultural issues in the first session, we will move on to the more specific disciplines of urbanism.
Who make up urban communities? What is the urban mushroom community? How do we use urban nature to navigate our environment? What would happen if we opened up the green spaces of urban institutions to city dwellers? Should we draw a line between naturalness and aesthetics? These and similar questions will be addressed in the second session of the conference.
13:00 The city as our common habitat
Réka Báthoryné Dr. Ildikó Nagy PhD, landscape architect, senior planner, associate professor at MATE
13:35 The big fungi community of our domestic urban areas
Péter Balázs Domonkos PhD student, ELTE TTK
13:55 Cognitive Labyrinths: Hidden Dimensions of Urban Navigation
Zoltán Varjú Natural Language Processing (NLP) expert
14:15 Opportunities for Community Use of Institutional Gardens in Budapest
Dr. Vera Zajacz Takácsné, okl. landscape architect, okl. architect,
Head of Department, MATE Department of Garden and Open Space Design and
Anita Reith, PhD in Landscape Architecture, MATE
14:35 Controlled "chaos" - nature-based solutions for urban communities
Dr. Balázs Almási Associate Professor, PhD, DLA habil. MATE TTDI Department of Garden and Open Space Design, Senior Landscape Architect
14:50-15:15 COFFEE BREAK
15:15-16:30 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
We will conclude the day with a round table discussion, reflecting on, complementing and expanding on the questions of the two sessions. The discussion will address educational issues and explore the role of stakeholders (children, adults, plants, animals or even different sites) connected to the natural environment in the city and the opportunities they create.
Participants:
🌿Agnes Bujdos nature facilitator, landscape designer and horticultural engineer
🌿Minkó Mihály Researcher, MOME Innovation Centre, Ecology and Action Lab
🌿Dr. Krisztina Szabó PhD Associate Professor, MATE TTDI Department of Garden and Open Space Design
🌿Szőcs Levente Álmos Assistant Professor, ELTE PPK Institute for Human-Environment Transaction, ELTE PPK Doctoral School of Education
🌿Balázs Zsolnai, horticulturist, botanist
16:30-16:40 CLOSING WORDS
17:00-18:00 Budapest100 OPENING WITH PUBLIC WORKSHOPS, MUSIC BY NUBLAO
Participation is free but registration is required and will be open on the Budapest100 website from 8 May.
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Made possible with the support of the National Cultural Fund.
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