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Special Issue: Recombinant Ecologies in the City

By: Alexandra Crosby Sep 21 '20 Date: September 21, 2020 Comments: 0

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a special issue of Visual Communication: Recombinant Ecologies in the City. Volume 19 Issue 3, August 2020. The editorial is open access. The contributions to this issue show that experimental visual communication can bear witness to practices and performance of cities by birds, bacteria, plants, atmospheres and people. Visual communication can also generate living archives of recombinant ecologies, contributing to […]

The Plantiness of Bankstown

By: Alexandra Crosby Sep 21 '20 Date: September 21, 2020 Comments: 0

For the Bankstown Biennale This project welcomes you to walk noticing how plants shape the ways we look at, feel about, and imagine Bankstown. It consists of six invitations to envisage the neighbourhood in more planty ways. Plants make our lives possible, and are central to crucial issues: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, food production, pollution. […]

The Planty Atlas of UTS

By: Alexandra Crosby May 14 '20 Date: May 14, 2020 Comments: 0

The Planty Atlas of UTS is a participatory project we designed for UTS Library Creative in Residence 2019. The project invites participants to imagine a more planty UTS campus, and it consisted in an installation of plants and books from a variety of disciplines, curated walks in the UTS precinct and workshops. We recorded the […]

A taste of Recombinant Ecologies special issue

By: Alexandra Crosby May 14 '20 Date: May 14, 2020 Comments: 0

We are very pleased that our new article ‘The not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb’ is published online in Visual Communication. This article is part of a special issue on ‘Recombinant Ecologies in the City’ which comes out in August. In this article, we write about the project Marrickville Walks which tracked papayas, […]

The Planty Bookshelf

By: Alexandra Crosby Aug 15 '19 Date: August 15, 2019 Comments: 0

The Planty Bookshelf is a socially engaged creative project consisting of an installation of a curated, multidisciplinary bookshelf of UTS library’s holdings on selected plants and three mapping walks inside UTS library and in the surrounding neighbourhood. The walks will be held in spring and summer 2019.

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.

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