Rosemary in roundabouts, lemons over the fence: how to go urban foraging safely, respectfully and cleverly Shutterstock Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney and Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney Does anything beat the experience of finding a wild mulberry tree and stuffing a handful of fresh juicy berries in your mouth? Have you ever roasted […]

Gardens, verges and parks are sites where individuals can become involved in forms of ‘civic ecology’. We borrow this concept from Krasny and Tidball (2012, 2015a, 2015b), who in their book Civic ecology: Adaptation and transformation from the ground up concentrate on ‘hands-on stewardship practices that integrate civic and environmental values’ (2015a xviii). This definition is […]

Launching a walking map of Green Square. The map signposts civic ecologies so that residents can use it when they walk around their 5kms radius.

In June, we presented at ‘In the Roots’ which brought together four speakers whose practices are embedded in places of connection, creating sustainable and abundant systems as well as community organisation around ecological concerns. NADEENA DIXON / Gadigal, Wiradjuri and Yuin multi-disciplinary artist / ALEXANDRA CROSBY & ILARIA VANNI / Mapping Edges / SEOIDÍN O’ […]

The Plantiness of Sydenham encourages you to walk the vital industrial lands of Sydenham, envisaging the neighbourhood in more than human ways. Contribute to an online collaborative map or pick up a printed map during Creative Trails. We will be working with the ever brilliant local illustrator Ella Cutler to design the printed map. There […]

Mapping Edges is thrilled to join the the ‘Mapping Future Imaginaries’ network, based at RMIT and led by artist and academic Associate Professor Linda Knight. Linda has been an ally of Mapping Edges for many years and her Inefficient Mapping project has helped us use observation and sensing to think more slowly in the city. […]

We are in the habit of making maps, and putting them together as atlases. So we thought it was time to try to explain why. An atlas is a book or collection of maps. Many atlases also contain facts and history about certain places. There are many kinds of specialized atlases, such as road atlases […]

On Earth Day, we organised a walk through Green Square to observe civic environmental practices happening within the precinct. We gathered at Joynton Avenue Creative Centre. We admired some colourful verges. We thought about water histories at Woolwash park. Woolwash Park Pond is the only remnant of this landscape which connected to a vast aquifer […]

If you live or work in Green Square, we would love to hear from you about the neighbourhood and the environment. We have made a quick questionnaire, that should only take 5 minutes to complete. The questionnaire uses Google Forms, so you need to be logged in to a google account. The name and photo […]

As part of a panel titled ‘Questioning the Colonial: Three Counter Mapping Practices’ organised by Linda Knight we presented to an international audience very early in the morning (for us). The event was convened by the LivingMaps network as part of the series ‘Front Lines, Back Yards’. LIVINGMAPS NETWORK WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2013 AS A […]