Image:
White tree blossom on a branch

INNATURE

Nature Based Solutions (NBS) can support biodiversity, human health and well-being, climate adaptation and resilience, and can reduce pollution and climate change. In reality, many NBS fail to maximise these benefits or do not work over time, exacerbated by a lack of community involvement. 

The INNATURE project ambition is to change this and to deliver five diverse demonstration cases across Europe that maximise NBS co-benefits and that will demonstrate best ‘next practices’ in design solutions and processes and upscaling and acceleration of NBS in different contexts. It will do so by bringing biodiversity and people diversity together at all levels (i.e. diverse communities, artists and designers, ecologists, researchers, policy-makers, other stakeholders) and thereby reimagining new (biodiverse, social, cultural and ecological) futures. 

The New European Bauhaus (NEB) will act as a foundation for the co-production of NBS and all of the INNATURE NBS actions will be NEB ‘by design’, thereby transforming and diversifying existing living environments that will demonstrate how NBS solutions can be inclusive, resilient and adaptable to changes, affecting policy and changing mindsets.

Membership Criteria

We welcome anyone interested in enhancing biodiversity and social inclusion through Nature Based Solutions that are also beautiful and sustainable!

Contact Us

If you have any questions about the project or how you can get involved, please feel free to reach out to:

 

Sofie Pelsmakers 

Professor, Architecture

Housing Design Faculty of Built Environment Tampere University 

sofie.pelsmakers@tuni.fi

Raúl Castano De la Rosa 

Senior Research Fellow Faculty of Built Environment, Architecture 

Tampere University 

raul.castanodelarosa@tuni.fi