On Stage
Kalpana Arias is a guerrilla gardener, technologist, nature rights campaigner and food grower, writer, speaker and the founder of PLAY, a social enterprise fighting for urban nature. Kalpana campaigns for the right to grow, nature rights and tech for good, and has spent over 10 years researching how technology and nature can work together from biomaterials and AI to robotics, gamification and other nature-based tech.
She has delivered a global TED talk, spoken at the United Nations, featured on Evening Standard’s 30 under 30 list of Climate Activists On A Mission To Save London and Vogue, and is a trustee for GROW charity and National Park City. Kalpana is currently an environmental consultant for corporations and governments and works with leading charities, institutions, brands and grassroots change-makers.
Join us for a playful, beginner-friendly workshop introducing Glitch through a citizen science bioblitz at Latitude Festival.
Using the Glitch Playbook Zine as a field guide, we’ll explore the park together through observation, mapping, storytelling, and collective curiosity.
During the workshop, you will:
– Observe and document biodiversity
– Explore relationships between people, plants, pollinators, and place!
– Use the Glitch platform to chat, map, and log observations
– Imagine future possibilities for urban nature
– Contribute to a growing network of citizen science observations
This workshop centres accessibility, curiosity, and collective observation rather than expert knowledge. No previous experience with biodiversity recording, nature study, or citizen science is needed.