Creative Practice Research Forum
Forest Time: Exploring intersectional belonging in/to urban forest places
Speaker: Lotte Dijkstra, PGR, School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape
For many humans, urban forests are nature close to home. For more-than-human beings, urban forests are home. At the same time, engagement with and access to urban forests and their countless benefits are unequal. Quantitative data show how human age, ethnicity, health, and deprivation influence levels of engagement with and time spent in nature. What we don’t know, however, is how intersecting identities impact perceived access to urban forests. Beyond availability and attractiveness, cultivating a sense of belonging seems to play a role in mitigating this unequal access. But what does it mean to belong in an urban forest place? Who belongs?
During this Creative Practice Research Forum, PhD researcher Lotte Dijkstra from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape invites you to join her for a moment of Forest Time. She shares her collaborative place-based storytelling method, allowing for critical reflections on senses of belonging and equitable access to urban forests across more-than-human communities.
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