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Moss as Metonym
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 […]
DOWNLOAD pdfVisually Communicating Artificial Urban Wetlands
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 […]
DOWNLOAD pdfThe Green Square Atlas of Water Stories
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 […]
DOWNLOAD pdfFrom photo documentation to photo diagrams: a technique to make civic ecologies present and legible
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 […]
DOWNLOAD pdfOn Countermapping and codesigning with more-than-humans
This chapter is published in Feminist Designer, On the Personal and the Political in Design Edited by Alison Place, The MIT Press Book Details
DOWNLOAD pdfEdge
Published in Environmental Humanities, 2023, 15, (1), pp. 164-167, Duke University Press As a concept, edge has multiple intellectual genealogies, from ecology to business studies and cultural theory.1 In each field it has slightly different connotations, but it maintains a basic shared meaning: it signifies a transition zone between different systems. In this lexicon entry, we explore […]
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