Field Trips
The concept of the Anthropocene induced a paradigm shift in the processes of knowledge making. Through an exploration of the theme of “the Elemental,” the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne took the Anthropocene concept into the field. The following reports reflect on the novel methodological approaches that have been put to the test during a series of field trips and workshops.
- contributionElizabeth Lara
Interspecies Accomplices: Cultivating Conspiracy at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
What does the practice of gardening enclose about human-plant relations? A field report on the imperial history of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne.
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Agency, History
- contributionAllan McKean
Telling time through lagoons of human waste at the Western Treatment Plant
The guiding question of this field report to Melbourne’s sewage treatment plant concerns the temporalities intrinsic to human-made infrastructures.
Waste, Future, Ecology, Pollution
- contributionDavid Kelly
Conundrums on Country
How can we forge novel ways of human-environment interactions? A field trip to Melbourne’s sustainability center CERES set out to explore this question.
Adaptation, Biodiversity, Ecology
