Today we had our second Urban Green Infrastructure Walk Shop, funded by a grant from the UT's Climate Centre. We had invited the participants from our previous symposium in April and anyone else interested, which attracted several UT scientists and students. If you missed out, no problem! There will be another walk shop during the sustainability week at the end of November. It might be colder though ;)
During this walk shop we focused on the Extinction of Experience and how this ultimately translates into how urban green infrastructure is designed. Through loss of knowledge on species, urban spaces become less green or have little attention to benefits for species other than humans. This increasing the knowledge gap as we become consumers of green spaces instead of thinking about how our local ecological systems function and what are the wider benefits for all.
For this walk shop we had two experts from the KNNV (Royal Dutch Natural History Society for field biology) who tested our knowledge before going outside. They then explained what species we encountered during the walk, the interactions with the environment and other species, and answered every question we had. Afterwards, we asked our participants to reflect on their experiences and how this would influence what urban green infrastructure should/could look like.
Check out the UT's event website, or the Climate Center events, or the Green Hub events to register for the next walk shop.
Impressions of the walk shop, with a stop at the Bee Hotel:
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