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Climate Action Week Workshop

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 17 '25 Date: April 17, 2025 Comments: 0

When is a tree not just a tree? and a drain not just a drain? When it’s a rain garden! Thanks to everyone who joined our Climate Action Week workshop on visualising urban ecologies. Climate Action comes in many different forms- the way we visualise nature in cities shapes how we see our role in […]

Memefest: Radical Design Podcast

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 16 '25 Date: April 16, 2025 Comments: 0

Thank you for having us in conversation Oliver Vodeb: Seed Balls as a Relational Design Method In this episode, Alexandra Crosby, Ilaria Vanni, and Oliver Vodeb explore ideas around expanded permaculture design and relational design ecology objects. Their conversation is grounded in DIY design tactics that seek to connect us to the plant world — […]

Bringing the river into the gallery and the future: reimagining Birrarung 50 years from now

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

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 Concepts for 2070, on until 2 February 2025, the river flows into the gallery […]

By: Alexandra Crosby Aug 26 '24 Date: August 26, 2024 Comments: 0

Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature. How does this look in the era of climate change? Topographies at Sydney College of the Arts Gallery. Jessica Maurer Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney Ecology has always fascinated Australian artists. Think of landscape painters like Arthur Boyd (1920–99), who was inspired by nature and committed […]

Haberfield Garden Competition 2024

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 25 '24 Date: April 25, 2024 Comments: 0

Since our 2018 project documenting environmental stewardship practices in the gardeners of Haberfield, we have volunteered as judges of the Haberfield Association’s Garden Competition. This year we were looking at the category ‘Whole Gardens’. Presentation night was 22nd Monday, 2024 at the local library. Judges showcased the stunning entries to share the resilience, generosity and […]

PhD Scholarships available

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 14 '24 Date: March 14, 2024 Comments: 0

PhD scholarships available with Mapping Edges as part of the ARC Discovery Project ‘Surfacing urban wetlands in two urban renewal sites in Sydney’ Fully funded for 3.5 years full time Email CV and cover letter to Alexandra.crosby@uts.edu.au  by 8 April 2024. Successful applicants will join the research team sharing knowledge between partners, with milestones for […]

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