We planned The Civic Ecologies of Green Square during 2020, a year dominated by the digital, with very few face to face meetings and exchanges of artefacts. By the time we first met with Jennifer Noorbergen, Community Engagement and Venue Manager of our partner Joynton Avenue Creative Centre, we had already well and truly begun. […]

  Living Maps Network: Questioning the Colonial: Three Counter Mapping Practices ‘Mapping Urban Plantiness’ In this presentation we introduce selected projects that seek to answer the question: how does our understanding of cultural, environmental, and social histories of place change if we let ourselves be guided by plants? 15 April 6.00-8.00am London/Online Green Square Civic […]

VERGES, GARDENS, EXCHANGES, SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES, COMMONS Join Mapping Edges on a walk through Green Square to observe civic environmental practices happening within the precinct. April 24, 2pm, meet at Joynton Avenue Creative Centre. Are you a resident of Green Square? or just interested in some of the changes in the area? Join us on a […]

We have begun taking regular walks in Green Square as part of the scoping stage of our project on Civic Ecologies. This is an outline of our first scoping walk. We are documenting civic ecologies as we observe them, and also using a shared map to mark points of interest.          

If you are in Melbourne 26 March to 5 April, be sure to visit Melbourne Design Week. We have a few planty picks for the week! WILD CITIES Presented by Wendy Steele, Tess Lea, Hélène Frichot and Ashley Dawson What does it mean to be “wild” in the 21st century? How is the concept of […]

learn about saving seeds in preparation for seed balling in Spring

We are pleased to announce our major project for 2021. Supported by The City of Sydney and UTS The Climate Justice Research Centre, the Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies guides people to look at activities and practices that bring together care for place and community and for the environment. Examples include the verges people […]

This project welcomes you to walk noticing how plants shape the ways we look at, feel about, and imagine Bankstown. It consists of six invitations to envisage the neighbourhood in more planty ways. Plants make our lives possible, and are central to crucial issues: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, food production, pollution. Walking produces embodied ways […]

Our research for the Bankstown Biennale began with a walk. We began by following our familiar allies, the dragon fruit plants, which we first met mapping Marrickville.

Our project welcomes you to walk noticing how plants shape the ways we look at, feel about, and imagine Bankstown. It consists of six invitations to envisage the neighbourhood in more planty ways. Plants make our lives possible, and are central to crucial issues: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, food production, pollution. Walking produces embodied ways […]