Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a Sydney-based Colombian artist and gardener. In 2018, she created While I Live I Grow, a project referencing the former wetlands in Green Square that sustained the first industry in the area. The artwork, which is located at multiple sites around Green Square, is a living installation of Australian native bottle […]

If you are in Melbourne 26 March to 5 April, be sure to visit Melbourne Design Week. We have a few planty picks for the week! WILD CITIES Presented by Wendy Steele, Tess Lea, Hélène Frichot and Ashley Dawson What does it mean to be “wild” in the 21st century? How is the concept of […]

This week’s activity has 2 parts: Part 1: Watch: Plant Maps as Treasure Hunts https://youtu.be/2GE1PH_TQa0 Try to answer these questions: If you are in Australia, what country are you on? If you are not in Australia, what people have lived on the land you are now on? What can a map do, aside from helping […]

“Critical fabulations are ways of storytelling that rework how things that we design come into being and what they do in the world. They deconstruct design methods to open different understandings of the past that reconfigure the present, creating new opportunities for a just future” (17). In her book Critical Fabulations, Daniela K. Rosner eloquently […]

Food Democracy is a unique book in its direct approach to the politics of food and its commitment to creative practice as an avenue for social change. It deals with an increasingly important issue that is central to most global political struggles of the present and future. If you need to quickly catch up on […]

I am writing from Banjarmasin, in South Kalimantan, one of the four Indonesian provinces on the island of Borneo. Banjarmasin, ‘the city of a thousand rivers’, is an urban edge in itself, settled on a delta island near the junction of the Barito and Martapura rivers. Banjar language is a result of the fusion of […]

I picked up this book at Gleebooks, which still brings together a great curated collection at the edges of academic and general audience publications. It caught my eye because of some writing I am doing with Dr Kirsten Seale about typography and urban renewal. Tinkering has had a renewed interest in the past few decades […]

We are reading this book because Anna Tsing’s book Friction had such an effect on the collaboration that is Mapping Edges. This book is about the most valuable mushroom in the world, the Matsutake, the commodity chains within which it exists, and its relationship with humans, trees and others. Through its ability to nurture trees, […]