A metonym is a figure of speech that transfers the meaning of a word to another based on a relation of proximity, either material, spatial or causal. For instance, ‘breaking a sweat’ meaning ‘to work hard’, ‘Canberra’ to signify the Australian government, or ‘he turned red’ to indicate the embarrassment that causes a white person […]

Urban wetlands in Australia are under threat, yet they provide benefits for climate change mitigation, pollution reduction, habitat provision, and socioecological connection. In what is now known as Sydney’s inner south and inner west, wetlands were significant places maintained by Aboriginal peoples for millennia (Foster). The violent colonial history that shaped Sydney unfolded along its […]

The Green Square Atlas of Water Stories maps, materialises and activates social and environmental histories and practices of water in Green Square. We invite you to choose a portal through which you can enter the archives and flow through time and space. Be guided by a camellia, a pub sign and a dugong. Take a […]

The visualization of nature in cities fundamentally impacts how we imagine the urban environment and our role in caring for it. Across Australia, the project of urban renewal imagines and designs specific typologies of urban nature. These typologies can obscure grass root forms of environmental stewardship and their connection through civic ecologies. Yet, at this […]