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Water Stories

Frog image, heading Kimberley Grove
Lizard image, heading Gunyama Park
Camellia Grove
Cauliflower hotel
Image houses by canal. Text Alexandra Canal.
Description of plants found at Kimberley Grove and Gunyama Park
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Water Stories

Ilaria Vanni Accarigi, Alexandra Crosby, James Goodman, Elise van den Hoven, Shannon Foster, Ella Cutler, Kane Pham, Amy Lin

Did you know there is habitat for endangered frogs in Rosebery? Did you know there was once a violent cauliflower gang roaming the streets of Waterloo? Did you know dugong bones were found during excavation for the Alexandra Canal?

These little-told histories are surfacing in Water Stories. Developed during the 2021 and 2022 La Niña event, this interactive project offers a way to map, materialise and activate the social and environmental histories and practices of water in Green Square, Australia’s largest urban renewal project.

The Country that is now known as Green Square is nadunga gurad, sand dune Country, known for millennia for its nattai bamalmarray, freshwater wetlands and ephemeral ponds.

- Project collaborator D’harawal eora Knowledge Keeper & registered Sydney Traditional Owner Shannon Foster.

A cauliflower, camellia, frog and stormwater drain are each a portal to these stories. Users can explore maps, archival text, expert voices, photos and video, as well as watery words from the Dharawal Dictionary, to reveal an interactive history of this inner-city precinct in Sydney. They’re also invited to contribute their own stories to this living archive of Green Square.

  • Explore the project at waterstories.info
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People relaxing in the shade of a tree

Cooling the Commons

Abby Mellick Lopes, Cameron Tonkinwise

Process map for a farm

Scoping the future algae-based bioplastics industry in regional Australia

Sam Wearne, Thomas Lee, Alexandra Crosby, Rachael Wakefield-Rann

Sketching out a repair on butcher's paper

Repair design

Jesse Adams Stein, Alexandra Crosby, Thomas Lee, Katherine Scardifield, Rachael Wakefield-Rann

Map of green square

The Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies

Alexandra Crosby, Ilaria Vanni Accarigi, Ella Cutler, Shannon Foster

Biomasonry composite : cog shape

Designing with waste: future biomaterials for carbon storage exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia

Kate Scardifield

DAB interdisciplinary design project

Building international relationships through interdisciplinary design

Alexandra Crosby

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands. 

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