Our video essay ‘Migrant Gardens’ was accepted for the Displacements conference program and will be one among more than 150 such presentations from nearly every continent around the world. This event will widen geographic access to anthropological knowledge and conversation, and to do so through a carbon-conscious platform for conferencing. Conventional academic conferences are too […]

I wanted it to be a pretty garden, with roses. I wanted pinks and mauves. So many of the plants are for the colour. I’m not a native plant person. I like exotics. Scent is really important to me too. I love the flowers themselves, but I love the smell of them. That’s definitely a […]

Home Gardens of Haberfield sought to explore the nexus between gardens, place-making and senses of belonging and community and to document gardening practices. Our methodology for this project included iterative walks to help us identify human and non-human participants and issues of concern. As we walked we also documented gardens and streetscapes with photography, and […]

Indonesian Australian Design Futures is a project that brings together designers, design writers, design teachers and design thinkers from Indonesia and Australia to work on sustainable futures. The project website is here. Sasirangan in Banjarmasin A Jamu Stroll Walking with Anitha Silvia Chickens, Aquaponics, and tree planting in Central Jakarta: an interview with Fergus Jensen 2016, […]

A guest post by Jade Ella Trapp. Jade is a naturopath and midwife living sometimes in the NSW town of Lismore and other times in Central Java.  She developed an interest in jamu when she first moved to Java as a student in 2000. A late afternoon stroll through the heavily concreted inner-city suburb of […]

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 […]