REWILDING FORUM – REWIND/REWILD at OmVed Gardens
4 May 2019 | Tickets £25/£15
Curated by Anna Souter and Beatrice Searle

The Rewilding Forum brings together experts with the wider public for an inclusive and participatory day of debate around human re-involvement in natural processes, and the creative and practical ways of looking at and living within healthy ecosystems both urban and rural. By gathering experts in ecological protection and restoration, with theorists, doers, architects and artists and the public, the Rewilding Forum aims to break down the traditional boundaries between disciplines that often hinder progress and a holistic appreciation of ecological issues. Together, we will examine whether we can rewild our own lives and increase our connection to the natural world whilst, in some cases, relinquishing control and allowing ecosystems to manage themselves.

Session 1
Welcome and introduction by Beatrice Searle
Pieter-Paul Groenhuijsen: The European Nature Trust and Alladale Wilderness Reserve
Dr Jonathan Prior: The messy and the unscenic: Environmental aesthetics and rewilding
Dr Darren Evans: Everything is connected: Studying the web of life in a rapidly changing world

Session 2
Dominick Tyler: Pass words: How language unlocks the landscape
Dr Poppy Nicol, Sustainable Places Research Institute: Re-wilding spaces, cultivating spaces and the places in-between

Session 3
Paul de Zylva, London National Park City: National Park Cities: Who, what, when, where and why?
Maria Chiara Piccinelli, PiM Studio Architects: Rewilding architecture
Dr Stephen Head of the Wildlife Gardening Forum: Urban biodiversity and you: Think global, act local

Session 4
Dr Susan Baker: Reconnecting with nature and the self: Views from ecofeminism
Dr Susan Baker and artist Anna Skladmann in conversation, chaired by Anna Souter
Interspecies collaborations: Fiona MacDonald in conversation with Tom Jeffreys

More information: www.omvedgardens.com/events/rewilding-forum/
Read a write-up of the day here:www.omvedgardens.com/the-rewilding-forum/
Part of Rewind/Rewild | Exhibition 1-7 May 2019 | OmVed Gardens