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Imperial Lates Online: Back to Nature 

 
Our adult celebrations of science returned in digital form with a week-long online exploration of our connection to the natural world.  
 
Catch up with all the events from Imperial Lates Online: Back to Nature and join an artist and plant scientist at a plant drawing workshop, see who triumphed in our great outdoors-inspired poetry slam, and watch a debate on lockdown’s impact on the environment.
 
Plus there's a host of nature-themed talks, podcast interviews and music playlists for you to enjoy at your leisure. 
 

Imperial Lates Online are most suitable for over 18s.

Relax and take a meditative trip into the rainforest with a one-hour audio-visual soundtrack. Explore the history of the forests of Costa Rica and hear Jenna explain how these tropical soundscapes are being used to aid conservation work.

biodiverse/earth

Explore the human impact on the forests of Costa Rica with this audio-visual soundtrack. Jenna Lawson is working to save the endangered spider monkey. Taking her real-life forest recordings, art collective super/collider have created an immersive journey from untouched biodiverse forests, to the haunting silence of disturbed plantations. biodiverse/earth conveys the beauty in the diversity of life and what we lose when we destroy these incredible ecosystems.

Read more about Jenna’s work using soundscapes and the range of animals living in the Osa Peninsula rainforest

This piece was crowdsourced as part of poet Dan Simpson's residency at Imperial College London. After setting prompts with Imperial researcher Dr Ans Vercammen, Dan collected words from the public on the theme of our relationship to nature.

Back to Nature: A crowdsourced poem by Dan Simpson

This piece was crowdsourced as part of poet Dan Simpson's residency at Imperial College London. After setting prompts with Imperial researcher Dr Ans Vercammen, Dan collected words from the public on the theme of our relationship to nature. Using these, he edited these contributions together to create this poem.

Podcast playback

Take a coffee break and tune in to some of our favourite nature-themed excerpts from the Imperial Podcast. From sounds of the rainforest to green economies, these 5-minute morsels are perfect for tea and biscuit time. 

Green economic recovery

Tune into the rainforest

How the climate crisis affects mental wellbeing