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 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 […]

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.

This week Mapping Edges co-facilitated the Composting Feminism reading group with Abby Mellick Lopes. We read Tim Ingold’s 2004 essay ‘Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived Through the Feet’ and ‘Rising and Falling: The Theorists of Bipedalism’, one of the essays from Rebecca Solnit’s 2001 book Wanderlust: A History of Walking. Rereading Wanderlust for the reading group was […]

Reposted from ‘COMPOSTING Feminisms and Environmental Humanities’, a reading group of cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary scholars exploring the traces and legacies of inclusive feminisms within the broad Environmental Humanities, and forging new linkages between the two fields. Tuesday 8 August, 4-5:30 | Facilitated by Abby Mellick Lopes & Ali Crosby | Readings: Ingold (2004) ‘Culture on the Ground: The World […]

We have just finished up an online residency at WalkingLab, as part of the project Performing Lines: Innovations in walking and sensory research methodologies. This project is lead by Dr. Stephanie Springgay to study and advance the theory and practice of walking methodologies, exploring and developing innovative interdisciplinary practices. MappingEdges has been ‘Walking with Seeds’ […]