Welcome to the Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Cultures (FRIEC), a place to imagine and build cities that nurture humanity’s relationships with urban nature, through art and creative, cross-culture, cross-discipline collaboration. All of our projects try to fold art, science, and practice into unified collaborations.
See also our other projects, including: Art-Science-Practice Residencies (a project with the US Forest Service), Fiction, Poetry, and Graffiti. We also launched in June 2023 a comics series on Nature-Based Solutions.
Interested in joining the FRIEC urban artist collective?
Write us here: friec@thenatureofcities.com
What is FRIEC?
We are a place for radical imagination
about what cities could be,
where artists and practitioners of all backgrounds
can come together to:
collaborate with each other,
cities, and nature
challenge the framework
of established knowledge
allow new ideas for sustaining cities
across disciplines, species, and ways of knowing
imagine collaborative movements for livable,
resilient, healthy, poetic cities and regions
in partnership with nature
friek Exhibitions
Enjoy our latest exhibitions, featuring virtual and physical artistic collaborations across all borders.
exhibitions
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Reverberations
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Carmen Bouyer — Les savoirs vivent dans la terre // Knowledge is in the land
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Shade in the City
Rising Heat Inequity in a Sunburnt Era -
Nikki Lindt—The Underground Sound Project
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Nikki Lindt—If The Trees Speak to Us, How Will We Reply?
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The State We’re in Water: Constructing a Sense of Place in the Hydrosphere
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Hidden Flows — photographers uncover the invisible flows in African cities
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NYC Urban Field Station—Who Takes Care of New York?
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Emilio Fantin—Dreams of Trees
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Katrine Claassens—Love Letters to the Muted World
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Typhoon Queens—The Multicultural Life of Clouds & Rain
FRIEK essays
Essays from individuals of many disciplines, revealing the roots of ecological wellness in cities and cultures.
Roundtables
A series involving artists and creative practitioners from around the world, exploring relationships with the elements of nature in cities.
LEAF Episodes
Every third Wednesday, three artists from the FRIEC collective share their work in a themed discussion.
More Arts Essays
More arts related essays and writings, revealing the roots of ecological wellness in cities and cultures.
Opportunities
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