We are thrilled to announce the launch of a special issue of Visual Communication: Recombinant Ecologies in the City. Volume 19 Issue 3, August 2020. The editorial is open access. The contributions to this issue show that experimental visual communication can bear witness to practices and performance of cities by birds, bacteria, plants, atmospheres and people. Visual communication can also generate living archives of recombinant ecologies, contributing to […]

For the Bankstown Biennale 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. […]

This week’s activity has 2 parts: Part 1: Watch: Plant Maps as Treasure Hunts https://youtu.be/2GE1PH_TQa0 Try to answer these questions: If you are in Australia, what country are you on? If you are not in Australia, what people have lived on the land you are now on? What can a map do, aside from helping […]

The Planty Atlas of UTS is a participatory project we designed for UTS Library Creative in Residence 2019. The project invites participants to imagine a more planty UTS campus, and it consisted in an installation of plants and books from a variety of disciplines, curated walks in the UTS precinct and workshops. We recorded the […]

We are very pleased that our new article ‘The not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb’ is published online in Visual Communication. This article is part of a special issue on ‘Recombinant Ecologies in the City’ which comes out in August. In this article, we write about the project Marrickville Walks which tracked papayas, […]

As part of the residency, we convened 3 walks connecting the ‘old’ UTS library at Markets campus with the new location at UTS Central. The walks were loosely based on permaculture principles, observation of the chosen routes, interaction and reflecting and accepting feedback from observations and interactions. We documented the walking paths using Map My […]

In September, Mapping Edges ran the first event in the not-yet-open new UTS Central Library by throwing dirt, compost and seeds around the shiny clean winter terrace. People who like plants know that getting your hands dirty is a good way to learn about the our environment. In this workshop we shared knowledge on how […]

As part of the planty bookshelf, we put together a list of digital resources to help with planty research. Atchison, J. (2019). Thriving in the Anthropocene: Understanding Human-Weed Relations and Invasive Plant Management Using Theories of Practice. In Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans (pp. 25–46). Cham: Springer International Publishing. Baluška, F., Gagliano, M. & Witzany, G. 2018, Memory and […]

The Planty Bookshelf is a socially engaged creative project consisting of an installation of a curated, multidisciplinary bookshelf of UTS library’s holdings on selected plants and three mapping walks inside UTS library and in the surrounding neighbourhood. The walks will be held in spring and summer 2019.