Alexandra Crosby, Sarah Jane Jones and Holly O’Neil, from the Surfacing Urban Wetlands team, hosted their interactive workshop ‘Surfacing Urban Water’ at the AusSTS ‘Signals and Noise’ conference 2025 in Melbourne.
The workshop, reflected on how the visualisation of wetlands and waterways in cities fundamentally impacts how we imagine the urban environment and our role in caring for it. The team used the workshop to showcase their protocol to empower participants to ‘read’ their local ecologies and better connect to them through photodiagrams – a protocol based on ethnographic and visual communication methods. In the workshop, participants learnt how to make and use photodiagrams to read, analyse, document, and share watery urban ecologies.
The workshop took place at the National Communication Museum. The resulting photodiagrams were exhibited for the duration of the conference.
Read more about the conference here.
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