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. […]

  Living Maps Network: Questioning the Colonial: Three Counter Mapping Practices ‘Mapping Urban Plantiness’ In this presentation we introduce selected projects that seek to answer the question: how does our understanding of cultural, environmental, and social histories of place change if we let ourselves be guided by plants? 15 April 6.00-8.00am London/Online Green Square Civic […]

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.          

If you are in Melbourne 26 March to 5 April, be sure to visit Melbourne Design Week. We have a few planty picks for the week! WILD CITIES Presented by Wendy Steele, Tess Lea, Hélène Frichot and Ashley Dawson What does it mean to be “wild” in the 21st century? How is the concept of […]

learn about saving seeds in preparation for seed balling in Spring

We are pleased to announce our major project for 2021. Supported by The City of Sydney and UTS The Climate Justice Research Centre, the Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies guides people to look at activities and practices that bring together care for place and community and for the environment. Examples include the verges people […]

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.

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 […]

For the Bankstown Biennale This project welcomes you to walk noticing how plants shape the ways we look at, feel about, and imagine Bankstown. It consists of six invitations to envisage the neighbourhood in more planty ways. Plants make our lives possible, and are central to crucial issues: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, food production, pollution. […]