Living Loop: Ecologies in Motion

Urban nature is often treated as somewhere else: a park, forest, or preserve that people must leave their neighborhoods to reach. Even when cities add green space, the emphasis is often on what the landscape looks like rather than the relationships, experiences, and forms of life it makes possible.

What changes when forests, meadows, native plants, and habitat are woven into everyday urban life? Once these living environments exist, how do we move with them, learn from them, renew within them, create inside them, care for them, and allow other forms of life to flourish?

Ecologies in Motion brings together artists, foresters, designers, and community members to rethink urban nature, and ask how cities can be designed for a more-than-human community of people, pollinators, birds, plants, soil, and more.

The program begins with a site-responsive dance performance by Wayne State University students directed by Biba Bell, within the pocket forest…