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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 […]

Walking Together: Earth Day 2022

By: Alexandra Crosby May 12 '22 Date: May 12, 2022 Comments: 0

Thank you to everyone who walked with us in Green Square on Earth Day 2022. This special event helped us launch the Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies. Thank you to Lin Wei and Astra Howard for photo documentation.  

Who is the best PhD supervisor?

By: Ilaria Vanni Mar 06 '22 Date: March 6, 2022 Comments: 0

  The answer is ‘Ilaria’. So, I won the University of Technology Sydney Research Excellence Award for Supervisor of the Year and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than inviting new graduate students to come and work with Alexandra Crosby and me. If you have a project in mind that addresses environmental […]

Green Square 360 experiment

By: Alexandra Crosby Nov 11 '21 Date: November 11, 2021 Comments: 0

This is an experiment we did with our colleague Sydney Newtown from the School of Built Environment at UTS. Syd is interested in how people experience the city and uses digital tech to monitor and record how people respond physiologically and behaviourally to experiences of the built environment. We went for a guided walk of […]

Mapping Edges on 2SER

By: Alexandra Crosby Oct 31 '21 Date: October 31, 2021 Comments: 0

Most of us have gone on a COVID-safe approved walk around our neighbourhoods for a bit of freedom and fresh air during these past few months. However, have any of you caught yourself taking a few wild berries off a tree at your local park? Or maybe you might’ve caught yourself thinking about stealing an […]

Rizzeria

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 09 '21 Date: April 9, 2021 Comments: 0

We are always thrilled when our work has influence and impact. The very talented Bettina Kaiser adapted the Mapping Edges mapping methodology for a Botanicals workshop at the Rizzeria in October 2020. As part of the program at Joynton Avenue Creative Centre the Rizzeria runs creative workshops with the overarching theme of “environment”. During the […]

Green Threaded Stories

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 31 '21 Date: March 31, 2021 Comments: 0

We planned The Civic Ecologies of Green Square during 2020, a year dominated by the digital, with very few face to face meetings and exchanges of artefacts. By the time we first met with Jennifer Noorbergen, Community Engagement and Venue Manager of our partner Joynton Avenue Creative Centre, we had already well and truly begun. […]

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.

Nutmeg

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

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

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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