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Maquel

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 21 '22 Date: February 21, 2022 Comments: 0

Climate scientist Maquel Brandimarti has lived in a cottage on Belmont Street for the past 10 years. An avid gardener, Maquel recently completed a PhD on kangaroo ecologies at the University of Sydney. In her back garden there are chickens in a coop and a resident ringtail possum. The garden is shaded by a big […]

Marrickville Maps: Tropical Imaginaries of Abundance

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 26 '18 Date: February 26, 2018 Comments: 0

From the archive: Mapping Edges first walk.

By: Ilaria Vanni Nov 19 '17 Date: November 19, 2017 Comments: 0

This is a short documentation of the first Mapping Edges walk around Marrickville while in residence at Frontyard in March 2016. It shows some key elements of our methodology: we walk slowly, and analyse plant life and the way plants design the urban environment. Also it often rains.

Spontaneous gardens of migrants plants: a banana grove, taro, papaya and sweet potatoes growing along the rail tracks

Tropical Geographies of Abundance

By: Ilaria Vanni Sep 15 '17 Date: September 15, 2017 Comments: 0

We presented a paper at the conference Tropics of the Imagination in Singapore last week, and took occasion to think through what kind of tropical imaginaries are generated by plants. We started by locating our work in Gadigal country, specifically in Marrickville, explained our methodology, introduced which tropical tropes are associated with plants, and concluded following […]

Designing with weeds

By: Ilaria Vanni Jun 18 '17 Date: June 18, 2017 Comments: 0

I am in Venice, and I am posting from a garden on the island of Giudecca. It is best described as a series of four gardens, each on the site of plots of land with their own plant history. These histories are layered through the current design, from the layout of old orchards, to a vegetable […]

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