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Civic Ecologies of Green Square: Walk 1

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 23 '21 Date: March 23, 2021 Comments: 0

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 […]

Scoping Green Square

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 14 '21 Date: March 14, 2021 Comments: 0

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.          

Melbourne Design Week

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 12 '21 Date: March 12, 2021 Comments: 0

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 […]

The Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies

Seed Saving Workshop

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 03 '21 Date: March 3, 2021 Comments: 0

learn about saving seeds in preparation for seed balling in Spring

The Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies

By: Alexandra Crosby Jan 28 '21 Date: January 28, 2021 Comments: 0

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 […]

The Plantiness of Bankstown, a video invitation

By: Ilaria Vanni Oct 28 '20 Date: October 28, 2020 Comments: 0

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.

Special Issue: Recombinant Ecologies in the City

By: Alexandra Crosby Sep 21 '20 Date: September 21, 2020 Comments: 0

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 […]

The Plantiness of Bankstown

By: Alexandra Crosby Sep 21 '20 Date: September 21, 2020 Comments: 0

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. […]

The Planty Atlas of UTS

By: Alexandra Crosby May 14 '20 Date: May 14, 2020 Comments: 0

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 […]

A taste of Recombinant Ecologies special issue

By: Alexandra Crosby May 14 '20 Date: May 14, 2020 Comments: 0

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, […]

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