I recently attended a workshop on Survival, as part of ‘Hacking the Anthropocene‘. The event was located at the Canoe Club on the Cooks River, just near Tempe Sation: The River River Canoe Club of New South Wales. I walk past this club almost every day and was very curious about what was inside. The […]

In late March this year when ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie moved south and merged with a cold front moving up the north coast it triggered heavy rainfall in the Northern Rivers leading to significant flooding in the river town of Lismore. There are some amazing photos here According to the NSW government, the floods have caused more […]

Reposted from ‘COMPOSTING Feminisms and Environmental Humanities’, a reading group of cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary scholars exploring the traces and legacies of inclusive feminisms within the broad Environmental Humanities, and forging new linkages between the two fields. Tuesday 8 August, 4-5:30 | Facilitated by Abby Mellick Lopes & Ali Crosby | Readings: Ingold (2004) ‘Culture on the Ground: The World […]

I am in Venice, and I am posting from a garden on the island of Giudecca. It is best described as a series of four gardens, each on the site of plots of land with their own plant history. These histories are layered through the current design, from the layout of old orchards, to a vegetable […]

  Last weekend, I found myself at the Other Worlds Zine Fair at Marrickville Town Hall. I was shopping, not selling, which was quite a treat. If you are not sure of the significance of zines, a good place to start is Jessica Lymn’s thesis ‘Queering the archives: the practice of zines’ which is available for download […]

We have just finished up an online residency at WalkingLab, as part of the project Performing Lines: Innovations in walking and sensory research methodologies. This project is lead by Dr. Stephanie Springgay to study and advance the theory and practice of walking methodologies, exploring and developing innovative interdisciplinary practices. MappingEdges has been ‘Walking with Seeds’ […]