In this post, we reflect on the place-based design methodology involved in making Water Stories. Grounded by Doreen Massey’s definition of place, the project combines a set of ethnographic, historical and visual methods is applied to answer two research questions. The first question is broad and applies to many of our projects: As researchers working […]

How do we research place? Place as a concept has been the subject of multiple debates, reflecting arts, humanities, social sciences, and related disciplines’ increasing interest in space and place. Because of these debates, there are multiple definitions of place and multiple ways to study place. There are also many different place-based approaches. In this […]

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.