The University of Technology Sydney, where Mapping Edges Research studio is located, was one of the first Australian universities to become a Signatory to the University Commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2016. Supporting action on the SDGs at a large university involves getting down to the details of research projects like […]

  The answer is ‘Ilaria’. So, I won the University of Technology Sydney Research Excellence Award for Supervisor of the Year and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than inviting new graduate students to come and work with Alexandra Crosby and me. If you have a project in mind that addresses environmental […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]