If you live or work in Green Square, we would love to hear from you about the neighbourhood and the environment. We have made a quick questionnaire, that should only take 5 minutes to complete. The questionnaire uses Google Forms, so you need to be logged in to a google account. The name and photo […]

As part of a panel titled ‘Questioning the Colonial: Three Counter Mapping Practices’ organised by Linda Knight we presented to an international audience very early in the morning (for us). The event was convened by the LivingMaps network as part of the series ‘Front Lines, Back Yards’. LIVINGMAPS NETWORK WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2013 AS A […]

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 […]

As part of Melbourne Design Week, we spent some time with sea urchins. In Port Phillip Bay and throughout the East Coast of Australia, the invasive sea urchin species Centrostephanus rodgersii and Heliocidaris erythrogramma have been exploding in numbers. Now, with the helping hand of humans, these native and beautiful yet voracious little creatures have […]

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. […]

  Living Maps Network: Questioning the Colonial: Three Counter Mapping Practices ‘Mapping Urban Plantiness’ In this presentation we introduce selected projects that seek to answer the question: how does our understanding of cultural, environmental, and social histories of place change if we let ourselves be guided by plants? 15 April 6.00-8.00am London/Online Green Square Civic […]