To launch the Green Square Atlas of Water Stories, the storytellers got together on Easter Friday to share stories. We began with an acknowledgement of Country by Bangawarra. And then, of course, collected some easter eggs, which the Green Square bunny had kindly delivered to the paperbark trees surrounding Matron Ruby Grant off leash dog […]

The next in our series of hand made maps, designed by Ella Cutler. The Country that is now known as Green Square is nadunga gurad, sand dunes Country, known for millennia for its nattai bamalmarray, freshwater wetlands and ephemeral ponds. We acknowledge the generous contribution of Shannon Foster, D’harawal eora Knowledge Keeper & registered Sydney […]

Thank you to everyone who walked with us in Green Square on Earth Day 2022. This special event helped us launch the Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies. Thank you to Lin Wei and Astra Howard for photo documentation.  

This is an experiment we did with our colleague Sydney Newtown from the School of Built Environment at UTS. Syd is interested in how people experience the city and uses digital tech to monitor and record how people respond physiologically and behaviourally to experiences of the built environment. We went for a guided walk of […]

Rosemary in roundabouts, lemons over the fence: how to go urban foraging safely, respectfully and cleverly Shutterstock Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney and Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney Does anything beat the experience of finding a wild mulberry tree and stuffing a handful of fresh juicy berries in your mouth? Have you ever roasted […]

On Earth Day, we organised a walk through Green Square to observe civic environmental practices happening within the precinct. We gathered at Joynton Avenue Creative Centre. We admired some colourful verges. We thought about water histories at Woolwash park. Woolwash Park Pond is the only remnant of this landscape which connected to a vast aquifer […]

We planned The Civic Ecologies of Green Square during 2020, a year dominated by the digital, with very few face to face meetings and exchanges of artefacts. By the time we first met with Jennifer Noorbergen, Community Engagement and Venue Manager of our partner Joynton Avenue Creative Centre, we had already well and truly begun. […]

VERGES, GARDENS, EXCHANGES, SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES, COMMONS Join Mapping Edges on a walk through Green Square to observe civic environmental practices happening within the precinct. April 24, 2pm, meet at Joynton Avenue Creative Centre. Are you a resident of Green Square? or just interested in some of the changes in the area? Join us on a […]

We have begun taking regular walks in Green Square as part of the scoping stage of our project on Civic Ecologies. This is an outline of our first scoping walk. We are documenting civic ecologies as we observe them, and also using a shared map to mark points of interest.          

Bankstown Arts Centre produced this short video of us introducing The Plantiness of Bankstown. The video is part of a YouTube series presenting all the artists in Symbiosis, the inaugural Bankstown Biennale. There are important tips, such as finding mulberries and spotting ibis.