PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
The Green Square Atlas of Water Stories
The Green Square Atlas of Water Stories maps, materialises and activates social and environmental histories and practices of water in Green Square. We invite you to choose a portal through which you can enter the archives and flow through time and space. Be guided by a camellia, a pub sign and a dugong. Take a […]
DOWNLOAD pdfFrom photo documentation to photo diagrams: a technique to make civic ecologies present and legible
The visualization of nature in cities fundamentally impacts how we imagine the urban environment and our role in caring for it. Across Australia, the project of urban renewal imagines and designs specific typologies of urban nature. These typologies can obscure grass root forms of environmental stewardship and their connection through civic ecologies. Yet, at this […]
DOWNLOAD pdfOn Countermapping and codesigning with more-than-humans
This chapter is published in Feminist Designer, On the Personal and the Political in Design Edited by Alison Place, The MIT Press Book Details
DOWNLOAD pdfEdge
Published in Environmental Humanities, 2023, 15, (1), pp. 164-167, Duke University Press As a concept, edge has multiple intellectual genealogies, from ecology to business studies and cultural theory.1 In each field it has slightly different connotations, but it maintains a basic shared meaning: it signifies a transition zone between different systems. In this lexicon entry, we explore […]
DOWNLOAD pdfPlace-based methodologies for design research: An ethnographic approach
The debate about place has long intersected with design studies. Our contribution to interdisciplinary design is to facilitate a dialogue between design and human geography. Grounded in Doreen Massey’s conceptualisation of place as the interrelations of diverse powers, processes and practices, this paper combines ethnographic methods and examples into a succinct place-based methodology for design […]
DOWNLOAD pdfPlanty Design Activism: Alliances with Seeds
In cities across Australia and elsewhere, individuals and groups are experimenting with initiatives to link urban dwellers to local ecologies and strengthen the relation with and awareness of the environment. Community and street gardens, bush regeneration working bees, botanical and bird-watching expeditions in city parks and green areas are examples of this renewed interest in […]
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