Anna Grichting Solder
Regenerative Urbanist, Researcher and Musician
Country: Switzerland
Cohort: CCL Switzerland 2024
"As a Creative Climate Leader, I work with the transformative power of the arts to reworld, rewild and regenerate our planet and environment, using culture as a catalyst, a connector and community builder to co-create inclusive futures in harmony with Nature."
About
Anna Grichting Solder is a Swiss architect, urbanist, and musician working on regenerative and Earthcentric futures. She bridges disciplines as an educator, researcher, practitioner, and performer, advancing holistic, nature-positive and socio-ecological approaches to cities and landscapes, integrating both indigenous knowledge and science. Her projects span blue urbanism, participative design, and healing ecologies in border zones, focusing on women, peace, and the environment. As a performer, Anna builds cultural and ecological bridges through jazz and traditional music, using art to inspire climate consciousness and to reconnect us to Nature through her Blue Futures projects and performances.
Project Highlights
The Desert Bridges
The Desert Bridges connects cultures, continents and communities, using the universal language of music. The performances in Oman brought together traditional and jazz musicians from Switzerland and Oman around the BLUE. The musical compositions are created around the themes of water, the oceans the sky, and the blue as emotional depth and deep connection to Nature and all its species. The project included an Open Doors performances in an Elderly Center, to make music accessible to those who cannot attend theatre performances.
Climate Cosmophone CCL+CH
This project was created during the CCL Residency in Switzerland, The cosmophone is an activator and amplifier of voices for the climate, a vocal ex-voto for the Multiverse, and a memory for the CCL Alumni. It is a participative project to bring all voices -human and non-human – to the climate conversation. The result is a soundscape uniting and amplifiying the voices of the CCL+CH Alumni.
Blue Futures
Blue Futures is an interdisciplinary research and creative initiative rooted in regenerative urbanism, environmental diplomacy, and interdisciplinary cultural projects. The concept of Blue Futures centers on envisioning and designing sustainable, regenerative environments and communities, that go beyond the green and the carbon neutral, particularly in response to the challenges posed by climate change, rising sea levels, and the need for ecological balance in urban coastal regions. It is rooted in Blue Intelligence, the intelligence of Nature, of the Oceans, of indigenous communities, and underscores the importance of water cycles in managing Carbon on our planet.Â
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