This issue of Materia Arquitectura explores the need to think and live in cities in a sensitive and biodiverse way. Its guest editor, Jorge Godoy, proposes to look at urban life from the point of view of the commitment, resilience and persistence of the many species that participate in the construction of the urban and social landscape. Interviewed in this issue, Erika Mayr explains the importance of bees for the existence of other urban species. The articles in the dossier deal with bees, pollination, food, gender, fertility, affection, and beauty. Florentin Steininger and Sjoerd Krijnen speculate on the possibilities of redefining public space in Berlin as a car-free urban-natural habitat. Gilly Karjevsky and Rosario Talevi develop the cases of the Floating University and Climate Care, a festival of theory and practice at the intersection of climate challenges, the ethics of care and environmental humanities. Dunya Bouchi and Miriam Mlecek describe the work of Aedes Berlin in exhibiting and discussing the inseparable interaction between the natural and the built environment. Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen analyses the global community gardening movement, presenting it as the culmination of a new type of urban agriculture. Nicole Sartirani and Diego Castro focus on the architectural aspect of rearing edible insects in the urban environment and share their experiences of integrating these insects into Western cuisine. Meanwhile, Erika Mayr calls for care concepts that strengthen beehives and reduce the pressure on honey production in cities. Finally, Ana Zatezalo wants to reveal the collective powers of the Brutalist building "Lobe Block", which allows multiple behaviours.

Guest Editor Jorge Godoy Román