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PhD Scholarships available
PhD scholarships available with Mapping Edges as part of the ARC Discovery Project ‘Surfacing urban wetlands in two urban renewal sites in Sydney’ Fully funded for 3.5 years full time Email CV and cover letter to Alexandra.crosby@uts.edu.au by 8 April 2024. Successful applicants will join the research team sharing knowledge between partners, with milestones for […]
Following Sydney’s water: visualising socio-ecological relationships
We are absolutely thrilled to be starting on a new project in 2024. This Discovery Project is funded by the Australian Research Council. Wetlands are an endangered ecosystem globally. We aim to foreground, explore and reconnect with wetlands in Sydney. The project builds on research undertaken in Water Stories, using a similar methodology (including walkshops, […]
Pedal Set Go
Mapping Edges has collaborated with Pedal Set Go on a free Guided Ride of Water Stories. The tour is based on the living archive of Green Square. Professional guides show riders the bicycle friendly ways to explore Water Stories that maps the history and practices of water around Green Square. ‘Not only will you never […]
Mapping Edges at Livable Cities Conference
In June, we travelled to New York to present at the Livable Cities Conference, covering architecture, design, city planning, health, technology, urban economics and social policy. We presented our paper ‘Civic Ecologies in Green Square: Beyond urban renewal, towards caring for Country’ on a panel about Sustainability and Society.
Bell frogs, dugong bones and giant cauliflowers: water stories come to life at Green Square
Sheas Creek runs into Alexandra Canal. Photo: Ilaria Vanni, Author provided Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney; Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney, and Shannon Foster, University of Technology Sydney Did you know the Sydney suburb Rosebery was home to the now-endangered green and golden bell frogs? That enormous cauliflowers were nourished by fresh water […]
Water Stories: Exhibition, Walkshop and Rizzeria Workshop
107 Projects, Green Square, Joynton Avenue Creative Centre, Zetland. Join us at 107 to launch Water Stories, an exhibition of the archives as estuaries of Green Square. Joynton Avenue Creative Centre 3a Joynton Avenue Zetland, NSW 2017 Wed., 16 November 2022, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm AEDT You can register here or just turn up Walkshop: 19 November […]