CreativeMornings Izmir / Biophilia: Güneşin Aydemir

December's theme is "Biophilia"

Appreciate the living.

Integrate with nature.

Bring the outside in.

The "biophilia" articulated by Erich Fromm in the 1960s points to a beautiful idea: Humans have an innate desire and instinct to connect with nature and other living systems, whether human, animal, plant or wild.

The growing hum of busy neighborhoods, heavy traffic, and our reluctant reading on screens can numb our natural senses. However, even in the most urban settings, we express our biophilia by placing a new plant in the corner or letting the greenery grow organically on concrete walls.

Every day we have the opportunity to become relentless servants and protectors of our living environments, not just lovers and beneficiaries of it all. We exist together. As CreativeMornings speaker Missy Singer DuMars puts it, “Nature around us is nature within us.”

The Biophilia theme was selected by Creative Mornings Düsseldorf, illustrated by Lara Paulussen, and our global partner Skillshare presents the theme globally.

Güneşin Aydemir, the first guest of CreativeMornings Izmir:

Güneşin Aydemir, a graduate of Hacettepe University Biology Department, set foot in the nature protection area with bird watching, which she started during her school years. He focused on man's relationship with nature and this search introduced him to the Wheat Movement, which works on people responsible for nature.

In order to experience an ecological life in the countryside, he changed his life completely in 2007 and settled in a village on the skirts of Kaz Mountains with a group of friends. Here he established Çamtepe Ecological Life Center. He prepared an alternative education program called Life School. He is interested in production and sharing, ecological justice, learning community, participatory art, citizen science in a theoretical sense, as well as working to create models on these issues, and this is done through web knitting and storytelling.

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