Recorded live at This is Nature+ at Camley Street Natural Park, this episode brings together London National Park City Ranger Becky Lyon and Imogen Malpas (founder of climate-conscious clubbing collective Club SOL) to explore how we can make contact with nature through everyday culture, sound, and the senses. 

In this episode

• What counts as “nature engagement”, and who gets to define it
• Raves, coffee, sculpture, and other “unexpected” routes into nature connection
• Touch, sound, smell, and the body as forms of knowledge (and resistance)
• Participation over perfection, making invitations rather than outputs
• Community, conflict, joy, and why gathering still matters

About the guests

Becky Lyon - artist, PhD researcher, and London National Park City Ranger (Barnet)

• Read: Becky Lyon’s Ranger story
  
  London National Park City
• Explore: The Department of Artecology
  
  London National Park City
• Follow: @elastic_fiction

Imogen Malpas - founder of Club SOL, former environmental journalist, currently at medical school

• Follow: @clubs0l Instagram
• Read more: In conversation with Imogen Malpas 

Links and references

• Visit: Camley Street Natural Park
  
  London Wildlife Trust
• Follow: OpenAREA on Instagram
• More from this series:
  • Open Area Podcast Ep 1 - Rachy McEwan and Kalpana Arias
    
    London National Park City
  • Open Area Podcast Ep 2 - Moja Collective (Shukura Babirye)
    
    London National Park City

Credits

Part of a limited edition podcast series created in collaboration with Open Area, recorded live at Camley Street Nature Park during the Open Area This is Nature+ takeover.
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