Join Ilaria Vanni, Sarah Jane Jones and Alexandra Crosby at UTS to consider how the visualisation of nature in cities fundamentally impacts how we imagine the urban environment and our role in caring for it. At this time of climate-driven environmental change, residents’ engagement with urban ecologies is vital. Yet, we generally think of nature as something placed outside cities. We have devised a protocol to empower residents to ‘read’ their local ecologies and better connect to them. This protocol is based on ethnographic and visual communication methods, and we call it photodiagrams. In the workshop, participants will learn how to make and use photodiagrams to read, analyse, document, and share their urban ecologies. This includes the impact of climate change on the local environment and examples of stewardship practices that may otherwise remain illegible.
Participants are asked to bring to the workshop a photograph of an aspect of the environment in their own work or home neighbourhood.
11th of March at 11am, UTS Foyer.
urbanwetlands.online 