Regeneration
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Regeneration

Karel Prach

He advocates for spontaneous succession, focusing on areas after human intervention, such as abandoned fields, coal mine waste dumps, and river floodplains.

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Parts

  1. Nikola Brabcová & Karin Šrubařová, Erosion
  2. Ólafur Arnalds
  3. Bjarki Bragason, Before Present
  4. Ladislav Miko
  5. Tomáš Šenkyřík, Zelinka
  6. Kristína Jamrichová, And clouds of dust and sand used to rise over the plain...
  7. Lucie Lučanská, Scratching the surface
  8. Ruta Putramentaite & Jonáš Richter, you deassemble and reassemble me again
  9. Hana Šantrůčková
  10. Marina Hendrychová, Lycaeon
  11. Bryndís Snaebjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, Time and Again & Time and Tide
  12. Karel Prach
  13. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Epidermis
  14. Magdalena Manderlová, HISS
  15. Thomas Pausz, Making New Land / Silica Cinema
  16. Jana Stachová
  17. Wiola Ujazdowska, The Prophecy of Lupine the Sun that Never Sets
  18. Gústaf Jarl Viðarsson
  19. Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya, Interspecies Dreaming
  20. In Search of Porcelain
  21. Landscape of Iceland
  22. Radek Štěpánek, Erosion

Karel Prach

Prof. Karel Prach, a Czech ecologist and university lecturer, played a pivotal role in introducing restoration ecology to the Czech Republic. He conducts research on this subject at the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), and leads the Restoration Ecology Group at the University of South Bohemia. He studied biology, with a major in geobotany, at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, from 1972 to 1977, and was appointed as a professor of botany in 2002.

He advocates for spontaneous succession, focusing on areas after human intervention, such as abandoned fields, coal mine waste dumps, and river floodplains. His goal is to advance scientific understanding in both practical applications and legislation. In 2022, he was awarded the Gregor Johann Mendel Honorary Medal for Merit in Biological Sciences by CAS.

Directed by: Nikola Brabcová a Karin Šrubařová

Camera: Jan Vidlička

Cut: Darina Štěpánková

Sound postproduction: Martin Hůla

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