Feria Urbanism is developing the concept of the 15-Minute Forest — a place-based response to the critical question of our age, climate change, inspired by the principles of the 15-Minute City.

As part of a four-year research project to address dwindling biodiversity and access to green space, we are helping communities to put ecology at the centre of their futures — in our capacity as community facilitators and neighbourhood plan writers.

While working at the local level can feel small and incremental, it is clear to us that grassroots action can become global action: if all individual gardeners, streets, neighbourhoods and communities adopt a wilding or greening strategy, we could collectively deliver real change.

The project came about after we were approached by the In Between Time Festival in Bristol.