Marrickville Walks (2018)
Marrickville Walks produced a series of print-on-demand booklets about the edible gardens of Marrickville. We explored this environmentally and culturally diverse suburb on foot.
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Marrickville Walks (2018)
Via a series of three walks, we imagined a tropical Marrickville by tracking and photographing the recombinant ecologies of dragon fruit, banana and papaya. Ethnographic and design research methods included repeated walks, photographic documentation and interviews with local gardeners. These walks created opportunities to engage our bodies and senses, as well as to think about how plants shape the way we look at, feel about and imagine a place.
Community participation is key to this project. We are currently interviewing gardeners in Marrickville so if you are willing to share your knowledge, and your garden, please be in touch.
The Plantiness of Sydenham
The Plantiness of Sydenham encourages you to walk the vital industrial lands of Sydenham, envisaging the neighbourhood in more than human ways. Contribute to...
Planty maps as treasure maps: Mapping Edges at TeachMeet
What if we think of plants as treasures growing in our cities? And how would we go about making these treasure discoverable? Mapping Edges presented a...
Walk 1 – Banana
Walk 2 – Papaya
Walk 3 – Dragon Fruit
Marrickville Maps: Tropical Imaginaries of Abundance
We are pleased to publish our first series of walks, 'Marrickville Maps: Tropical Imaginaries of Abundance'. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons...
The Cooks River with Clare and Sally
I don’t often get boating invitations. This week, when Clare Britton asked my to climb aboard the newly renovated ‘Sally’ at the Tempe Pier, I didn’t...
Marrickville Backyards
This book, Marrickville Backyards, was necessary preparatory reading for our field work in Marrickville. Published in 2001 by Marrickville Community History...
Papayas of Marrickville
I ran into a friend yesterday who has been following #mappingedges through Instagram. Although he lives only 10 km away, because of traffic, poor public transport connection, and generally busy lives, we barely see each other and he hasn’t been able to join any of our walks. He had noticed the images of papayas growing on Marrickville’s edges and wanted to know if they were the kind that were good in Som Tam, Green Papaya Salad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_papaya_salad).
