The not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb

Vanni, I; Crosby, A

The not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb

Vanni, I Crosby, A

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Publisher:: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Visual Communication, 2020, 19, (3), pp. 331-352
Issue Date:: 2020-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Vanni, I
dc.contributor.author	Crosby, A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8959-7971
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-06T10:34:56Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-06T10:34:56Z
dc.date.issued	2020-08-01
dc.identifier.citation	Visual Communication, 2020, 19, (3), pp. 331-352
dc.identifier.issn	1470-3572
dc.identifier.issn	1741-3214
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/142551
dc.description.abstract	© The Author(s) 2020. Mapping and fitness apps, government agencies and departments, and citizen science projects provide a wealth of data on urban green spaces, charting parks, reserves, and green corridors in and around Sydney. These maps represent vegetation as surface and, as Doreen Massey in the 2005 book For Space noted about other types of Western maps, detach the observer from the object of their gaze. The authors argue that, in order to make recombinant ecologies present, as well as visible, we need a different order of maps, able to place the observer back in the thick of things, and to capture the entanglements between humans and more-than-human gatherings. This, they maintain, requires a shift to mapping as an embodied methodology that brings together walking, visual documentation and drawing. To do this, they present three walking maps of plants imagined as ‘tropical’ growing in Marrickville, a suburb in Gadigal-Wangal Country in Sydney’s inner west, an area located in the ‘sub-tropical humid’ climate zone map. Through the generation of three plant-led walking maps, they reveal recombinant Marrickville ecologies. They show how plants redesign the urban landscape and engender everyday practices in the gardens, verges, and non-cultivated parcels of land and, in doing so, contribute to sensing the suburb as tropical.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
dc.relation.ispartof	Visual Communication
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1470357220915652
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dc.subject	1203 Design Practice and Management, 2001 Communication and Media Studies, 2002 Cultural Studies
dc.title	The not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
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© The Author(s) 2020. Mapping and fitness apps, government agencies and departments, and citizen science projects provide a wealth of data on urban green spaces, charting parks, reserves, and green corridors in and around Sydney. These maps represent vegetation as surface and, as Doreen Massey in the 2005 book For Space noted about other types of Western maps, detach the observer from the object of their gaze. The authors argue that, in order to make recombinant ecologies present, as well as visible, we need a different order of maps, able to place the observer back in the thick of things, and to capture the entanglements between humans and more-than-human gatherings. This, they maintain, requires a shift to mapping as an embodied methodology that brings together walking, visual documentation and drawing. To do this, they present three walking maps of plants imagined as ‘tropical’ growing in Marrickville, a suburb in Gadigal-Wangal Country in Sydney’s inner west, an area located in the ‘sub-tropical humid’ climate zone map. Through the generation of three plant-led walking maps, they reveal recombinant Marrickville ecologies. They show how plants redesign the urban landscape and engender everyday practices in the gardens, verges, and non-cultivated parcels of land and, in doing so, contribute to sensing the suburb as tropical.

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