The answer is ‘Ilaria’. So, I won the University of Technology Sydney Research Excellence Award for Supervisor of the Year and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than inviting new graduate students to come and work with Alexandra Crosby and me. If you have a project in mind that addresses environmental […]

How do we research place? Place as a concept has been the subject of multiple debates, reflecting arts, humanities, social sciences, and related disciplines’ increasing interest in space and place. Because of these debates, there are multiple definitions of place and multiple ways to study place. There are also many different place-based approaches. In this […]

Bankstown Arts Centre produced this short video of us introducing The Plantiness of Bankstown. The video is part of a YouTube series presenting all the artists in Symbiosis, the inaugural Bankstown Biennale. There are important tips, such as finding mulberries and spotting ibis.

The Planty Atlas of UTS mapped the local environment of the UTS neigbourhood to draw attention to – and spark curiosity about – the role of plants in our day-to-day lives. By engaging UTS staff and students, we conducted a series of mapping walks at and around UTS to expore the local plant life and observe, interact, reflect and accept feedback from our chosen routes. Coupled with a curated installation of plants and books at the the UTS Library and the production of seed balls, maps and photographs of our findings, this project urged participants to consider how our understanding of the world can shift when we let ourselves be guided by plants. Funder: UTS Library

You can make seed balls using just about any type of seeds. We chose kangaroo grass for our workshop because of what we knew about its significance to Aboriginal farming practices and because its ability to ‘wiggle’ was very appealing to us. Themedatriandra, commonly known as kangaroo grass, is a native perennial grass that grows […]

This spring I visited a variety of gardens in UK, from grand National Trust estate properties to council estates plots. Everywhere I saw plant-human collaborations to green our environment and lives.