PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Migrant gardens, rogue plants and inner city imaginaries in Sydney, Australia
In April we presented Migrant Gardens, a video essay at the Biennal Meeting of The Society for Cultural Anthropology, Displacements. The conference engaged with different kinds of displacements, as it explains on its website: Displacements are in the air: episodes of profound political upheaval, intensified crises of migration and expulsion, the disturbing specter of climatic […]
DOWNLOAD pdfReading Italian gardens in Australia transculturally
Last month I presented a paper on gardens and transculturation at the conference Living Transcultural Spaces, organised by Co.As.It in Melbourne. The presentation is available on the conference YouTube channel here, and this is the abstract: Gardens have been identified as significant locations of place-making and environmental negotiation for migrant communities in Australia. Gardens are […]
DOWNLOAD pdfValue the Edge: Permaculture as Counterculture in Australia
This paper considers permaculture as an example of counterculture in Australia. Permaculture is a neologism, the result of a contraction of ‘permanent’ and ‘agriculture’. In accordance with David Holmgren and Richard Telford definition quoted above, we intend permaculture as a design process based on a set of ethical and design principles. Rather than describing the […]
DOWNLOAD pdfMade in Marrickville: Enterprise and cluster dynamics at the creative industries-manufacturing interface, Carrington Road precinct
Alexandra Crosby co-authored a report on Carrington Road, an area of Sydney’s Inner West Mapping Edges has been exploring in our research on disturbed landscapes in industrial zones of the city. The report is part of a broader project: ‘Urban Cultural Policy and the Changing Dynamics of Cultural Production’. Sydney is one of three Australian […]
DOWNLOAD pdfThe Transcultural Edge
The Transcultural Edge, Special Issue PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/issue/view/372 Critical writing about transculturation has a long history in Latin American studies, and more recently the concept has been used to analyse the effects of globalization. This article takes as its point of departure the Latin American genealogy of the idea, and […]
DOWNLOAD pdfMapping Hybrid Design Participation in Sydney, Reflections on Creativity: Public engagement and the making of place
As in the city of Bandung, the making of place in Sydney (Australia) is now considered by policymakers to be inseparable from creative industries such as design and architecture. This paper focuses on one particular category of creative practitioners: designers, in particular those designers who don’t accept and contribute to the same broad vision of […]
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