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News Coevolvers in Scotland: Coevolving Towards Impact In early September 2025, the COEVOLVERS community traveled north to Scotland, where partners from across Europe gathered for four days of learning, exchange, and shared experiences. See post
Events • 09/08/2025 Consortium Meeting In Scotland The James Hutton team organised our annual consortium meeting in Aberdeen. We had an opportunity to visit the COEVOLVERS Living Lab in Alford near Aberdeen, and also explore a few community based activities in the Cairngorms National Park, in the Scotland Highlands. See post
Blog LEGO stop-motion video about human-nature realtionship The Scottish Living Lab asked children to make a video about the relationship between humans and nature. The kids used LEGO cubes for the video and shot a wonderful LEGO stop-motion video. See post
News Healing Garden – Art Exhibition at #CIHE2025 The Healing Garden installation was presented at the 2nd International Congress of Ecological Humanities (#CIHE 2025) at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. See post
Blog Healing Through Nature: Exploring the Impact of Nature-Based Activities in Carriacou Silvana Mula had the opportunity to explore the impacts of nature-based activities on the psychological well-being and environmental awareness of children in Carriacou, in the Carribean Sea. See post
News ‘Their success in engaging the community was what struck me’: Cross-community learning at Anagach Woods, Scotland A group representing the Murray Park Living Lab and members of the Hutton COEVOLVERS team travelled across the Cairngorms for a meeting of minds with representatives from the Anagach Woods Trust, in Grantown-on-Spey. See post
Blog Rethinking Nature-Based Solutions through the Lens of Transitional Vulnerabilities NBS are often portrayed as universally "good," overlooking the complex, power-laden, and transitional nature of the landscapes and communities they transform. The following tests a new conceptual framework for understanding transitional vulnerability in NBS. See post
Blog From linear promises of Nature-based solutions to relational practices of Nature-based assemblages Nature-based Solutions promise numerous social, environmental, and economic benefits inspired and supported by nature. However, as the literature on NBS has evolved, more critical perspectives have emerged, emphasizing that naive assumptions about universal co-benefits must be abandoned. See post
Blog Spring School for Early Career Researchers on NBS for Just and Transformative Futures The Naturescapes Project hosted the international Spring School “Nature-Based Solutions for Just and Transformative Futures in Lisbon. Our collague form the Sardinian Living Lab had the opportunity to participate. See post
News Going Beyond ‘Non-Human’: Exploring the Diversity of Urban Species through a Nature Observation Marathon The Nature Observation Marathon (aka BioBlitz) is an annual event in Estonia. During this 24-hour event, specific areas are designated fointensive nature observations, where participants ideally record all the species they encounter. See post
Events • 04/16/2025 Symposium on Multispecies Cultural Niche Construction for Biodiversity Recovery We organised a symposium on Multispecies Cultural Niche Construction for Biodiversity Recovery. Watch the video of the keynotes and read all the presentations. See post
Events • 07/01/2025 Nature-based Solutions and Coastal Communities Join our sister project for a community-led discussion on coastal nature-based solutions. This special session will be hosted in collaboration with partners from communities in our case study sites, who will share practical experience in designing, implementing and caring for nature-based solutions in urban and coastal settings. See post
News Reconfiguration Initiatives in Cagliari Living Lab The Cagliari research team has initiated a reconfiguration process within the Molentargius- Saline Regional Nature Park in Sardinia, Italy. The initiative aims to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) that embrace the area´s diversity of ecological, recreational and commercial uses. See post
Blog From Sardinia to the Dry Forests of Peru: A Journey of Green Mindfulness, Forest Bathing and Human Connection I was able to carry out a research period of 17 days on Green Mindfulness and Forest Bathing in Pirua, Peru —an experience that became not only a professional mission but a personal transformation. See post
News COEVOLVERS Advancing Co-Creation and Reconfiguration The Beskydy Living Lab organised another Czech-Slovak meeting in Velké Karlovice. The workshop presented significant outcomes of persistent collaborative efforts and introduced new ideas for the region’s development and engagement of nature based solutions. See post
News A Pink Wind on Water: The Karalis Pink and Open Monuments in Dragon Boat The Karalis Pink, the Cagliari dragon boat team composed of women who have undergone breast cancer surgery, enthusiastically welcomed a group of participants in the Open Monuments initiative for a very special tour... paddling! See post
Blog The Weight of Lightness: A Day of Unity, Sport, and Shared Healing at Molentargius Park This initiative aimed to bring together oncology patients, families, healthcare professionals, psychology and pedagogy students, and the broader public to reflect on the multifaceted nature of illness and the shared power of support as a “salutogenic” factor. See post
Events • 04/23/2025 Havings. Steps Towards a New Economic Philosophy of Property and Beyond - BOOK LAUNCH Join the online launch of the new book of Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, our WP2 leader. See post
Blog Friedrich Schiller’s theory of aesthetic education and more-than-human play “Only where man plays is man truly human.” Says Friderich Schiller, German poet, philosopher. Schiller posits that play is performative in the sense that it creates the freedom to live in alternative worlds. See post
Blog Attuning to more-than-human worlds through sensory walks The focus of the Tartu Living Lab is to make the umwelten of non-human species in urban environments more visible and to integrate this knowledge into human practices related to urban spaces. One of the methods experimented for this purpose is the sensory walk. See post
Blog Exploring Nature through Citizen Science: A Workshop at Molentargius Park How can technology enhance our connection with nature? This was the central question explored during our recent Citizen Science Workshop at Molentargius Saline Regional Park on the 19 th December 2024. See post
Blog Meditation and mindfulness practices in Molentargius On 15 June, the Italian Coevolvers team organized a workshop “Meditation and Mindfulness practices in Molentargius-Saline Park”. See post
Events • 04/16/2025 Symposium on Multispecies cultural niche construction for biodiversity recovery Call for contributions See post
Blog Interview with Luis Castillo Mena sustainable and inclusive business specialist of AIDER, our Peruvian Overseas Cousin See post
Blog Using Umwelt cards to give non-humans a voice Finding ways to include nonhuman perspectives to nature-based solutions has been an important aim of the Coevolvers project. Written by Timo Maran, University of Tartu, Estonia. See post