TheNatureKind

A series of weekly conversations with nature-lovers who live, create and act for the planet.

That we have the word “nature” at all is so telling. As though nature is something separate and outside of ourselves - something to be dominated and controlled.

Sui Searle (she/her) is a gardener, writer and printmaker. She has worked in botanic, public, private and community gardens as well as having spent a short period writing for gardening magazines.

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Billions of years of evolution have created organisms with amazing abilities, and this is an endless source of not only inspiration but the organisms are potential collaborators in designs.

Samuel Iliffe is a design engineer focused on the use of innovative materials and processes to address everyday problems.
There is endless knowledge to take from nature. One of the most relevant pieces of knowledge is the relevance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystems and the significance of multispecies approaches.

Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar is a biologist, design researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Art.
Keeping that child-like sense of wonder alive and being moved by the small things, flower blossoming, birds singing, the water moving. Paying attention to the aliveness of the planet.

Ruth Andrade from Lush's Regenerative Impact team, has a masters in Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies.
Storytelling is a great way to fire up our imagination and ask those important what-if questions – and also to explore alternative realities.

David Reeve is the co-editor and co-founder of Where the Leaves Fall magazine.
In most ways, Sadeh Farm is my connection to nature. My Jewish heritage, nature, my ancestry, myself, the oak tree and the ash tree outside my window - it is here these parts of me intermingle.

Talia Chain founded Sadeh, the UK's Jewish farm and land-based community in 2017.
Nature helps a lot with grieving, and accepting loss, change and letting go. Yet there is something reassuring about the presence of trees, old trees in particular.

Born and raised in France, Alice is an artist and Modern Languages postgraduate student at the University of Oxford.
My biggest challenge is to use my music and art to get this message across that we should be at one with nature again and not be the age that killed it for future generations.

Love Ssega is a musician and artist. His work as the original frontman and founding songwriter for Clean Bandit landed in the UK charts and has also been performed globally.
That there are powerful and beautiful solutions to the climate crisis that have long existed and will continue to, whether world leaders choose to engage with them or not.

Talia Woodin is a youth activist, photographer and filmmaker based in the UK. She’s spent the past four years organising with various campaigns within the climate and environmental movement.
I’m totally in awe of the resilience and adaptability of nature. I wish I could be here to see how nature adapts and takes back control of the planet long after humans have gone!

Judith Alder is a British visual artist with a multi-faceted practice, working across a range of media and processes informed by science.
Nature is my syllabus and my art is born from these encounters. Nature tells me what I’m working on next!

Becky Lyon is an English x Jamaican artist and ‘artecologist’ exploring how art practice can re-body us back into the animate, vibrant, tangly messwork of our ecology.
How is the river running through this city so blue? Where am I going next?

Ameena Rojee is a portrait and documentary photographer who enjoys telling stories about adventure, the outdoors and our relationship with the natural world.
I’m very preoccupied by the ways that our environments can foment, echo or conflict with questions of identity and memory - both individual and collective.

Madeleine Bazil is a multidisciplinary artist and writer interested in memory, intimacy and the ways we navigate worlds - real and imagined.

TheNatureKind

That we have the word “nature” at all is so telling. As though nature is something separate and outside of ourselves - something to be dominated and controlled.

Billions of years of evolution have created organisms with amazing abilities, and this is an endless source of not only inspiration but the organisms are potential collaborators in designs.

There is endless knowledge to take from nature. One of the most relevant pieces of knowledge is the relevance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystems and the significance of multispecies approaches.

Keeping that child-like sense of wonder alive and being moved by the small things, flower blossoming, birds singing, the water moving. Paying attention to the aliveness of the planet.

Storytelling is a great way to fire up our imagination and ask those important what-if questions – and also to explore alternative realities.

In most ways, Sadeh Farm is my connection to nature. My Jewish heritage, nature, my ancestry, myself, the oak tree and the ash tree outside my window - it is here these parts of me intermingle.

Nature helps a lot with grieving, and accepting loss, change and letting go. Yet there is something reassuring about the presence of trees, old trees in particular.

My biggest challenge is to use my music and art to get this message across that we should be at one with nature again and not be the age that killed it for future generations.

That there are powerful and beautiful solutions to the climate crisis that have long existed and will continue to, whether world leaders choose to engage with them or not.

I’m totally in awe of the resilience and adaptability of nature. I wish I could be here to see how nature adapts and takes back control of the planet long after humans have gone!

Nature is my syllabus and my art is born from these encounters. Nature tells me what I’m working on next!

How is the river running through this city so blue? Where am I going next?

I’m very preoccupied by the ways that our environments can foment, echo or conflict with questions of identity and memory - both individual and collective.