Nature: Resource or Relative?

What if we wouldn't think about the land beneath our feet as a resource to exploit, but a relative to care for?

The planet burns ever hotter as technologies and cultural norms alienate and fragment holistic relationships. We've been told to recycle, buy green, reduce our carbon footprint, and trust technology to fix (or outgrow) climate crises. This conversation starts from a different premise: What if ecological collapse isn't a technical problem, but a relational one?
With this in mind, what kind of cultures are worth considering “advanced”?

Inspired in part by Potawatomi professor and scientist Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's landmark 2013 book Braiding Sweetgrass, this outdoor gathering invites you into a go-around conversation about eco-anxiety, grief literacy, technosolutionism, disposability culture, social technologies like conflict bowls, and what it might mean for us to become "Indigenous to Place".

How do we keep showing up for Earth, complex relationships, the legacy of our predecessors, the generations ahead of us, when the news feels this unbearable? This gathering is for anyone wrestling with similar questions.

What to Bring:

• A blanket or anything comfortable to sit on,
• optionally: something to drink and a snack to share,
• a headlamp for ambiance,
• and your honesty: What practice, if any, brings you hope in our collective future? What does Nature mean to you—not as an idea, but as a relationship?

Where to Meet:
Outdoors, by the trees in Városliget, on the field behind the 1956 Monument, to cool down after a hot day.

Meeting point at 6pm:
In front of the 1956 Monument in Városliget (City Park).

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If you arrive late, search for us in the field behind the monument!