This article, published in Australian Geographer, presents work from 7 Conversations in Haberfield. Abstract: Gardens in Australia are considered an important site of heritage maintenance and negotiation for their capacity to materialise transformations in everyday life, design, lifestyles, demographics, environment, as well as social and cultural practices. In the case of conservation areas, gardens tend […]

In April we presented Migrant Gardens, a video essay at the Biennal Meeting of The Society for Cultural Anthropology, Displacements. The conference engaged with different kinds of displacements, as it explains on its website: Displacements are in the air: episodes of profound political upheaval, intensified crises of migration and expulsion, the disturbing specter of climatic […]

Last month I presented a paper on gardens and transculturation at the conference Living Transcultural Spaces, organised by Co.As.It in Melbourne. The presentation is available on the conference YouTube channel here, and this is the abstract: Gardens have been identified as significant locations of place-making and environmental negotiation for migrant communities in Australia. Gardens are […]