Planeta Praha (Wild Prague) unfolded the story of Prague’s nature in a different way than we are used to. Instead of focusing on the Divoká Šárka or the Prokopské Valley, it rather depicted tales from bushes in housing estates, neglected courtyards, and peed on corners. It observed the city through the “eyes” of plants and animals: How do they perceive the pavements, station platforms, street lamps or cracks in the facade? How do they use the environment that people have built for themselves? How many “inhabitants” does Prague actually have?

The panoramic projection in the Black Hall was turned into an imaginary window into selected Prague “biotopes”—from the Prague steppe, the urban jungle, and the pond in the park to an ordinary sidewalk and a summer night in Petřín. Visitors to the exhibition became field researchers who discovered the hidden life of Prague’s nature through unique movie footage. The virtual reality installation led visitors to a future Prague without people, where fish breed in the flooded metro, a dense oak forest flourishes in the center, and herds of wild pigs roam among the ruins of buildings. This is also what Prague may look like in a hundred years. Visitors could also see the succession (i.e. the cycle of changing communities in the ecosystem) “working” in the atrium. The neat living area was transformed into a wild open-air laboratory; a small urban jungle where several plant species took turns in the struggle for living space during the six months of the exhibition.

Reliable guides through the “jungle” of the big city were expert consultants, without whom the exhibition would not have been created. Therefore, the exhibition showed everything that belongs in their profession and fieldwork—tools, photographs, sketches, illustrations, notes, and notebooks, as well as finds from expeditions into the urban nature. Thus, visitors to CAMP could see, for example, the sleeping bag of botanist Jan Albert Šturma in which he spends his nights in the urban bush, a model of an anthill used by documentary filmmaker Jan Hošek to peek into the “kitchen” of ants, or the insect net of zoologist Ondřej Sedláček because even in the 21st century, “entomology simply cannot be done without a net”.

The exhibition was complemented by a rich accompanying program. In addition to guided tours, visitors could engage in observation of urban nature directly in the field or attend thematic movie screenings. Lectures and debates focused on how the urban landscape and nature can be cared for and, among other things, presented the work of experts from the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague), the Department of Environment of the Prague City Hall, and other institutions.