We are
Remember Earth.

A creative collective that designs intimate experiences to rebuild our relationship with the more-than-human world.

Remember Earth Collective

We engage in field-based expeditions and long-form wilderness immersions with master guides, elders, artists, and ecological practitioners, entering ecosystems as students. From walking in the footsteps of the San people in the Kalahari to tracing emerging practices of wilderness regeneration across Europe, our learning is embodied and rooted in place.

These experiences are translated through a transdisciplinary practice spanning experience design, music and composition, videography, and storytelling. We focus on sharing insights without flattening their depth or complexity.

This work takes shape as place-based experiences around the world, shaped by their sites and communities, and continues through formats that can travel — such as music albums or practice guides — supporting ongoing learning and wider participation.

Our Mission

We want to support the restoration of human relationships with the larger Earth community by creating experiences that help people remember their belonging.

Why are we doing it?

Because firsthand, meaningful encounters with wild nature are disappearing - a phenomenon known as the extinction of experience

we host experiences

Through our practice, we continually experiment with experiential formats that can trigger and sustain shifts in perception.  We see these shifts as both entry points and sources of support within a longer process re-establishing a natural way of being, rooted in deep relationship with the more-than-human world.

that shift perception.

Experiences as
living Experiments

Through our experiences, we explore and iterate toward a format that integrates our accumulated learnings while operating at a truly transdisciplinary intersection and remaining deeply site-specific. Rather than starting from a fixed structure, we treat each experience as a living inquiry — one that helps us understand how to spark, support, and sustain a genuine journey of transformation.

So far, we have explored immersive concert settings alongside guided, land-based experiences unfolding across day and night.

Our current direction is to build a bridge between indoor performance spaces and the living landscape, allowing moments of collective listening to open into direct, embodied encounters with the wild.. Each new opportunity to host an experience offers critical insights, helping us refine and evolve the format over time.

A woman playing the violin and a man playing the guitar outdoors.

2025 · Kliczków Castle, Poland
The Collage of Extraordinary Experiences

As a professorial team at the College of Extraordinary Experiences, we hosted six outdoor experiences, each for twenty participants, with each session lasting ninety minutes. All experiences were inspired by the Berlin Swamps prototype and unfolded within a semi-wild landscape.

The experience began with a contextual framing of both the local landscape and the broader phenomenon of the extinction of experience. This was followed by a silent walk and an introduction to how music can heighten presence and perception. An opening musical performance—played from behind the participants—set the tone, after which each participant entered a thirty-minute individual sit-spot practice. The experience concluded with a collective musical moment, a silent walk back, and a poetic reflection, followed by a facilitated debrief led by the team’s lead facilitator.

We then hosted the same experience again at night, in complete darkness. In parallel, we presented a refined version of the immersive concert previously developed in New York and Las Vegas, now enriched with field recordings from the Romanian expedition. This marked the first time we hosted both indoor and outdoor experiences for all participants, offering a clear foundation for our next format test: creating a seamless transition from an indoor concert directly into the wild.

In addition to the in-person experiences, we developed methods to support participants once they returned home, including a sit-spot guide, a dedicated social group, and access to the music used during the experience to serve as an ongoing emotional anchor.

  • A person sitting on the grass under a tree, looking out into a field, wearing a hat and outdoor clothing.
  • People dressed in black robes walking in a line through a forest.
  • People sitting on the grass in a wooded area, playing guitar and violin, enjoying an outdoor music session.
  • Side profile of a man with blonde, curly hair and a dark complexion, with his eyes closed outdoors.
  • People sitting cross-legged and facing a woman playing a violin in an outdoor setting with trees and grass.
  • A woman with short curly hair and a red scarf around her neck sitting outdoors in a forested area, gazing thoughtfully to the right.
  • A woman with reddish hair playing a violin outdoors, surrounded by blurred figures holding guitars, in a forest setting.
  • A young girl with curly hair looking upward outdoors with a peaceful expression.
  • A girl sitting on a fallen tree trunk in a grassy, wooded area.
  • A blonde woman holding a stick standing outdoors in a field with trees in the background. A man with dark hair and beard is blurred in the foreground, appearing to hold or adjust his shirt.
Silhouettes of leafless trees reflect in a calm body of water at dusk or dawn, with a cloudy sky overhead.

2025 · Berlin Swamps
Development of a Wilderness Experience

With an immersive concert format already developed, our team began exploring how live music and experience design could be extended into a wild landscape and meaningfully connected to a local ecological story. This experience combined guiding skillsets developed during our expeditions with a growing sensitivity for playing with a landscape rather than overpowering it. Live music was carefully woven into the ecological narrative, alongside an hour-long sit-spot held in darkness.

The outcome demonstrated that, with some refinement, this format is a powerful vehicle for deep connection and transformation. It also made clear that close collaboration with the stewards of that specific land—landowners, local organizations, and ecological caretakers—is essential, both to deepen the experience and to ensure it is grounded in long-term responsibility, trust, and care for the place.

People sitting on the floor in a dark room illuminated by candles and a glowing moon-shaped light, participating in a group meditation or gathering.

2024 · IMEX Las Vegas
for the Google Experience
Institute Community

Caesar’s Forum


We hosted a similar immersive experience, carrying the same core message as in New York. In addition, we created a night-walk expedition in the desert outside Las Vegas, inviting a group of participants to join us in the landscape after dark. Through this experience, we realized the importance of working with a deliberate mix of indoor performance settings and outdoor, land-based encounters to create a more powerful transformation for the participants.

A man in light-colored clothing is speaking to a group of people at a formal event held in a large room with pink lighting and wooden wall panels.

2024 · New York
World Experience Summit

The House of Yes


At the World Experience Summit, a global gathering of experience designers, cultural leaders, and innovators exploring how experiences can drive transformation across business, culture, and society, we hosted the keynote immersive experience. The experience combined field recordings, musical composition, live performance, theatrical mechanics, scent, poetry with keynote talk. The message to the experience design community was clear: rather than focusing on creating ever more fictional worlds, our task is to rediscover ways of reconnecting people to the world we already inhabit— because there is nothing more immersive or awe-inducing than reality itself.

Expeditions

Chapter I
Kalahari Desert

People climbing and sitting in a large tree in a grassy field, with some looking at their phones and others sitting on the branches.
Group of people hiking in an open landscape during sunset, wearing backpacks.

The expedition was hosted by Lowveld Trails Co., a wilderness guiding company from South Africa specializing in immersive, foot-based expeditions that cultivate deep ecological awareness, tracking skills, and relationship with wild landscapes. Our team undertook a seven-day walking expedition through the Kalahari Desert. Moving camp daily in alignment with the practices of the San people, the group engaged in wildlife tracking and trailing, as well as extended sit-spot practices, fostering heightened awareness and a deeper, embodied relationship with the land.

The expedition culminated in a keynote immersive experience that offered renewed perspectives on experience design, presented at the World Experience Summit in New York City (2024), and later shared with the Google Experience Institute community at IMEX in Las Vegas (2024).

Sponsor
Google Experience Institute

Year
2024

Expedition Team
Wayne te Brake - wildlife guide
Lori Gillers - wildlife guide
Paul Bulencea - experience designer
Celia Schann - musician
Michael Riemer - musician
Thomas Mertlseder - composer, musician
Jakob Vasak - composer, musician
Alex Leff - podcaster, storyteller
Anne Merkle - impact strategist
Jon Stever - impact strategist
Philipp Jacobius - producer

Chapter II
Carpathian Mountains

  • Group of hikers walking uphill on a trail through grassy terrain with trees, under a cloudy sky.
  • Six people sitting around a campfire in a forest, with camping cookware and drinks, enjoying the evening outdoors.
  • Group of hikers in a green forest, having a conversation, wearing backpacks and outdoor gear.
  • Group of nine people standing together on a grassy field in foggy weather, dressed in rain ponchos and casual outdoor clothing, some holding walking sticks, with some holding cameras.
  • Four people walking through a grassy field with trees on either side under an overcast sky.
  • A woman with long, blonde hair sitting outdoors in a grassy area, gazing to the right with a thoughtful expression, while a man with dark hair and beard, wearing a gray shirt, is lying beside her with his hand on his head, looking upset, in a lush green environment.
  • A group of people walking along a grassy hillside on a sunny day with a mountain range in the background.
  • Close-up of tall green grass and wildflowers in a natural outdoor setting with sunlight filtering through.
  • A close-up of mushrooms growing on a fallen log in a lush green forest with tall trees in the background.
  • Looking up at tall trees in a forest with green leaves, with sky visible through the canopy.

The expedition was hosted by WeWilder, a place-based initiative in rural Romania that is creating regenerative spaces, practices, and gatherings that support rewilding, ecological learning, and deeper human belonging within living landscapes.

We undertook a three-day expedition in the Țarcu Mountains, at the heart of the European bison rewilding area. Guided by two WeWilder guides, we engaged in wildlife tracking, sit-spots, sleep-outs, and nature sound recordings, while developing an understanding of how the reintroduction of bison has reshaped both the landscape and its relationship with the surrounding village.

Following the expedition, we spent five days at the WeWilder campus, engaging with local residents and the WeWilder team to explore how village life sustains and enriches the wilderness through centuries-old agricultural practices rooted in more-than-human cohabitation - where humans have long lived alongside bison, bears, and wolves, as well as forests, soils, and seasonal rhythms, maintaining a form of coexistence that has become rare in much of Europe.

Expedition Team
Georg Messerer - wildlife guide
Radu Luchian - wildlife guide
Paul Bulencea - experience designer
Célia Schann - multidisciplinary Experience Artist,
violinist & singer 
Michael Riemer  - musician
Jakob Vasak - composer, musician
Constanze Radak - documentarist
Philipp Jacobius - producer

Support team
Oana Mondoc - Wewilder leader
Alina Floroi - WeWilder leader
Dosia - Chef 

Year
2025

As an outcome, we created music and narrative material that will be integrated into an upcoming album, while also planting the seed for a potential future festival.

A man playing guitar and a woman playing violin sitting on rocks by a small waterfall in a lush green forest.

Chapter III
the Berlin Swamps

Silhouettes of leafless trees against a blue sky at dusk, with their reflections in a body of water in the foreground.
A person wearing a hat is crouching in a wooded area near a small water stream, surrounded by tall grass and trees.

This self-directed expedition took us into the swamplands surrounding Berlin, tracing the city back to its ecological origins. Alongside deepening our understanding of the ecosystem, we scouted and hosted an experience that invited Berlin residents into reconnection with the land’s forgotten past.

Expedition Team
Paul Bulencea - experience designer
Célia Schann - Multidisciplinary Experience Artist, violinist & singer 
Michael Riemer -musician
Jakob Vasak -composer, musician
Constanze Radak - documentarist

Year
2025

Close-up of a fallen tree trunk covered with clusters of fungi in a forest setting.
A woman with a backpack sitting by a river in a forest, viewed in profile through overhanging branches.

  • "Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you."

    - Lost, a poem by David Wagoner

  • “If one day I see a small bird and recognize it, a thin thread will form between me and that bird. If I just see it but don’t really recognize it, there is no thin thread. If I go out tomorrow and see and really recognize that same individual small bird again, the thread will thicken and strengthen just a little. Every time I see and recognize that bird, the thread strengthens. Eventually it will grow into a string, then a cord, and finally a rope. This is what it means to be a Bushman. We make ropes with all aspects of the creation in this way. ”

    - San people, quoted in Jon Young’s What the Robin Knows

The Sit Spot
practice guide

This Sit Spot practice guide was shared with participants at the College of Extraordinary Experiences, and is designed to be accessible to anyone. A sit spot is both a practice and a pilgrimage. By returning to the same place in nature over days, months, and years, one gradually awakens into a relationship as intimate as any friendship or love affair.

The process unfolds in stages, each with its own textures and teachings, illuminated by voices that remind us of what becomes possible when we slow down and truly listen.

A woman sitting in a wooded area looking out at a lake surrounded by trees. The scene is peaceful and natural, with greenery and calm water.
SIT SPOT GUIDE

Music

Four people standing outdoors at dusk, playing musical instruments with mountains in the background.

Remember Earth uses music to awaken the senses and create space for deeper listening within a landscape.

Music supports participants in quieting the distractions that stand in the way of paying attention to the relational field unfolding in a living environment. Through composition and sound, we invite participants to open their senses and experience their relationship with the more-than-human web of life.

A woman with a ponytail playing a violin outdoors amidst greenery and white flowers.

Resources

  • A philosophical exploration of perception and language that examines how human cognition arises through sensory engagement with the animate world. → Book

  • A series of essays exploring the sensorial and embodied dimensions of human experience through direct encounters with animals, landscapes, and weather. → Book

  • A practical guide to bird language and natural awareness, showing how observing birds can reveal patterns of movement, danger, and change in a landscape. → Guide

  • A detailed nature-based framework for human development, outlining a contemporary path of soul initiation grounded in depth psychology and ecology. → Book

  • A collection of essays combining Indigenous knowledge, botany, and memoir to explore reciprocity, gratitude, and responsibility to land.
    → Book

Podcasts

  • A podcast series that explores how to orient your life around nature by discovering the mindsets, skills, and actions needed to engage with and understand the world’s ecologies. → Podcast

Experiences & Initatives

  • A wilderness guiding company offering multi-day, foot-based walking trails focused on tracking, awareness, and immersion in wild landscapes.

  • A rewilding and experience campus in the Southern Carpathians offering nature-based programs within a landscape where large wildlife has returned.

  • A nighttime outdoor experience where musicians play and sing alongside wild nightingales, letting the birds and the place shape the music as it unfolds.

  • An interdisciplinary research initiative studying sperm whale communication using advanced recording, robotics, and machine learning technologies.

  • An experiential art studio creating immersive installations and films that explore perception, technology, and ecological systems

  • A nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving natural quiet and protecting soundscapes in both wild and urban environments.

  • An international organization working to reduce light pollution and protect night skies through advocacy, education, and certification.

  • A long-term, living artwork that creates gardens designed specifically for pollinators, using scientific research to support pollinator species rather than human visual preferences.

  • An organization that creates dense, fast-growing urban forests using the Miyawaki method to restore native ecosystems in cities.

The Heart of the Collective

  • A man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, glasses, a leather jacket, and holding binoculars and a backpack, standing outdoors near leafless bushes on a cloudy day.

    Paul Bulencea

    Founder, Author, Entrepreneur & Experience Designer

    with a focus on creating transformational experiences. He is the co-founder of the College of Extraordinary Experiences, Also called the Bauhaus of the age of experience and of the Order of the Wild, a movement aiming to build a bridge between experience design and regenerative work and co-author of Gamification in Tourism: Designing Memorable Experiences.

  • A woman with long hair playing a violin, smiling with her eyes closed against a dark background.

    Célia Schann

    Founder, Multidisciplinary Experience Artist, Violinist & Singer

    is an award-winning French violinist, singer, and multidisciplinary artist. Educated at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, she creates transformative performances that weave music, nature, and embodied presence. Performing internationally—from the Berlin Philharmonic to wild landscapes such as volcano summits and rainforests—she explores how art and wilderness can lead us back into remembrance and belonging. Co-founder of Remember.earth.

  • Black and white portrait of a man with curly hair, glasses, and a goatee, smiling.

    Jakob Vasak

    Composer & Sound Artist

    an Austrian composer and sound artist based in Berlin. With a penchant for transcending conventional boundaries, he crafts immersive soundscapes that have left an indelible mark on international films, television productions, and crossmedial collaborations.

  • A man with curly hair holding an acoustic guitar, looking at the camera, in a black and white photo.

    Michael Riemer

    Guitarist & Producer

    He plays double bass, classical and electric guitar, and produces electronic music. After studying at HfM “Hanns Eisler”, he began his concert career, performing in philharmonic halls and classical festivals, and big pop festivals, He is Co-founder and board member of the Stegreif Orchestra, his music takes him worldwide.

  • Constanze Radak

    Cinematographer, Documentarist

    The Austrian cinematographer focuses on documenting environmental and socially critical issues. Based in Cologne, Germany, she currently works primarily on natural history and wildlife documentaries.

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