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The Planty Bookshelf

By: Alexandra Crosby Aug 15 '19 Date: August 15, 2019 Comments: 0

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.

Judging the Haberfield Gardens Competition 2019

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 23 '19 Date: April 23, 2019 Comments: 0

Mapping Edges was invited to judge this year’s Haberfield Garden Competition. We walked with Inner West Greens Councillor Marghanita da Cruz looking at gardens in the ‘Kitchen’ and ‘Autumn’ categories.

The Life of Plants, The Metaphysics of Mixture, by Emanuele Coccia

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 20 '19 Date: April 20, 2019 Comments: 0

Reason is a seed because, contrary to what modernity has insisted on believing, it is not the space of sterile contemplation, not the space of the intentional existence of forms, but the force that makes it possible for an image to exist as the specific destiny of a given individual. If we could think through […]

Yellow envelops containing seeds.

The Haberfield Street Seed Library

By: Ilaria Vanni Apr 14 '19 Date: April 14, 2019 Comments: 0

Critical Fabulations

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 10 '19 Date: March 10, 2019 Comments: 0

“Critical fabulations are ways of storytelling that rework how things that we design come into being and what they do in the world. They deconstruct design methods to open different understandings of the past that reconfigure the present, creating new opportunities for a just future” (17). In her book Critical Fabulations, Daniela K. Rosner eloquently […]

Nutmeg

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 17 '19 Date: February 17, 2019 Comments: 0

Nutmeg is everywhere in Banda, in jam, cakes, syrups, and curries.

Coach Fitz, by Tom Lee

By: Alexandra Crosby Oct 29 '18 Date: October 29, 2018 Comments:

Full disclosure: Tom Lee is my colleague down the hall at the School of Design where we work on interdisciplinary learning experiences. We have taught courses together on design thinking, design histories, and design futures. Tom is also a runner, and when I signed up for the City2Surf he was very encouraging. He has a […]

M/C Special Issue on Walking

By: Alexandra Crosby Oct 27 '18 Date: October 27, 2018 Comments: 0

I was recently part of a special issue of M/C Journal on Walking. Of particular interest to our work is Chantelle Bayes’ article ‘The Cyborg Flâneur: Reimagining Urban Nature through the Act of Walking’. Bayes draws on the work of Debra Benita Shaw, Rob Shields and Donna Haraway to examine how the urban walking figure might be […]

Sharing Mapping Edges

By: Alexandra Crosby Oct 19 '18 Date: October 19, 2018 Comments: 0

We have had a busy few months of presentations. First was the 4S conference, the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, which had the theme this year of – TRANSnational STS – Mapping Edges joined the Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanties panel with the paper ‘When plants design: multispecies entanglements in […]

Wayside Chapel Rooftop Garden

By: Alexandra Crosby Jul 21 '18 Date: July 21, 2018 Comments: 0

We recently visited the Wayside Chapel’s Rooftop Garden in Kings Cross. With views across the parklands and the CBD, the 200 square metre garden is filled with over 50 different varieties of organic fruit, herbs and vegetables. It has rainwater tanks, solar panels, worm farms, a compost system and bee-hives. The gardens have a strong […]

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