Preserve, Conserve, Tinkering with the Future - by Nora X. Anyidoho

“Preserve, Conserve & Tinker: Rethinking Our Future Through a Youth Lens” challenges us to see our urban landscapes through new eyes and empowers us to take action. The exhibition creates a platform for visual storytelling, inviting visitors to reflect on the role of urban nature and our responsibility to nurture it. It serves as a powerful reminder that the choices we make today impact the world we pass on to the next generation.

Hear this snippet of Ghanaian poet Nora X. Anyidoho delivering a captivating spoken word piece that introduced participants into the creative space. Her poem emphasized the vital role we all have to play in preserving, conserving, and tinkering with our urban natural assets:

“Look around, can you see a generation conscious of the future, rising up as custodians of nature, a generation who understands that their very survival depends on the urban natural assets that surround us… . Here, beyond the groaning of the earth is a sound far louder. The sound of people who have chosen to unbridle our tongue and repair our earth, our water, with words like Preserve, words like Conserve, words like Tinker, words backed with action fuelled with passion. We have vowed to make the earth Eden, home again.”

Explore the exhibition and make your commitments for urban nature here: https://africa.iclei.org/preserve-con...