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Browsing Category: Water Stories

By: Alexandra Crosby Oct 21 '24 Date: October 21, 2024 Comments: 0

Bringing the river into the gallery and the future: reimagining Birrarung 50 years from now Postcards from the future: the river-cleaning Birrabot. REALMstudios/NGV Australia Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney The Ian Potter Centre at Melbourne’s Federation Square is located on the banks of the lower stretches of Birrarung, the Yarra River. For Reimagining Birrarung Design […]

Launching the Green Square Atlas of Water Stories

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 15 '24 Date: April 15, 2024 Comments: 0

To launch the Green Square Atlas of Water Stories, the storytellers got together on Easter Friday to share stories. We began with an acknowledgement of Country by Bangawarra. And then, of course, collected some easter eggs, which the Green Square bunny had kindly delivered to the paperbark trees surrounding Matron Ruby Grant off leash dog […]

Water Stories of Green Square

By: Alexandra Crosby Sep 04 '23 Date: September 4, 2023 Comments: 0

The next in our series of hand made maps, designed by Ella Cutler. The Country that is now known as Green Square is nadunga gurad, sand dunes Country, known for millennia for its nattai bamalmarray, freshwater wetlands and ephemeral ponds. We acknowledge the generous contribution of Shannon Foster, D’harawal eora Knowledge Keeper & registered Sydney […]

Pedal Set Go

By: Alexandra Crosby Jul 03 '23 Date: July 3, 2023 Comments: 0

Mapping Edges has collaborated with Pedal Set Go on a free Guided Ride of Water Stories. The tour is based on the living archive of Green Square. Professional guides show riders the bicycle friendly ways to explore Water Stories that maps the history and practices of water around Green Square. ‘Not only will you never […]

Water Stories Guided Bike Ride

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 05 '23 Date: February 5, 2023 Comments: 0

Pedal Set Go has teamed up with Mapping Edges to create a guided bike ride of Water Stories in Green Square. The first guided ride is: Saturday 18 March from 9:30am to 11:30am You can read more about the ride here Your guides will show you the bicycle friendly ways to explore a UTS project […]

Bell frogs, dugong bones and giant cauliflowers: water stories come to life at Green Square

By: Alexandra Crosby Nov 23 '22 Date: November 23, 2022 Comments: 0

Sheas Creek runs into Alexandra Canal. Photo: Ilaria Vanni, Author provided Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney; Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney, and Shannon Foster, University of Technology Sydney Did you know the Sydney suburb Rosebery was home to the now-endangered green and golden bell frogs? That enormous cauliflowers were nourished by fresh water […]

Water Stories: Exhibition, Walkshop and Rizzeria Workshop

By: Alexandra Crosby Oct 18 '22 Date: October 18, 2022 Comments: 0

107 Projects, Green Square, Joynton Avenue Creative Centre, Zetland. Join us at 107 to launch Water Stories, an exhibition of the archives as estuaries of Green Square. Joynton Avenue Creative Centre 3a Joynton Avenue Zetland, NSW 2017 Wed., 16 November 2022, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm AEDT You can register here or just turn up Walkshop: 19 November […]

Water Stories Methodology

By: Alexandra Crosby Aug 28 '22 Date: August 28, 2022 Comments: 0

In this post, we reflect on the place-based design methodology involved in making Water Stories. Grounded by Doreen Massey’s definition of place, the project combines a set of ethnographic, historical and visual methods is applied to answer two research questions. The first question is broad and applies to many of our projects: As researchers working […]

Launching the Water Stories website

By: Alexandra Crosby Jun 10 '22 Date: June 10, 2022 Comments: 0

Did you know there is habitat for endangered frogs in Rosebery? Did you know there was once a violent cauliflower gang roaming the streets of Waterloo? Did you know dugong bones were found during excavation for the Alexandra Canal? These little-told histories are surfacing this week with the launch of Water Stories, a collaborative research […]

Water Stories Survey

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 24 '22 Date: April 24, 2022 Comments: 0

The University of Technology is conducting a survey to gather information about how the presence and history of water are perceived by a resident, worker or visitor in Green Square. This survey will ask about your experience living in Green Square, particularly about your relationship to water, the natural environment, and community. The survey results […]

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