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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.