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.          

The Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecology (2021), The Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecology aims to produce a map of the civic environmental practices happening within Sydney’s Green Square precinct. Through this community-based project, we’ll engage Green Square residents in community walks, exploring their local environment and documenting the civic ecologies (verge gardens, community composting initiatives, urban beehives) that exist within it. Workshops that encourage placemaking and community connections will further encourage participants to consider the role of local ecologies in addressing the global climate crisis. Funder: City of Sydney Partners: Joynton Avenue Community Centre Get involved: Community participation is key to this project. Join us for community walks and workshops and share your knowledge of local environmental practices.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 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