We are researching people’s feelings, concerns, and valuations of urban trees.
Summary of the PlantCities project so far.
Research team
CATHERINE PHILLIPS
RESEARCHER
Catherine is a social studies scholar at the University of Canterbury. Her research combines an ethnographic approach with social theory to understand the relations among humans and nonhumans, and how environments become governed.
JENNIFER ATCHISON
RESEARCHER
Jen is an Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong. She has a passion for plants and her research seeks to understand the place of plants in past, present and future lives.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
Lesley Head
Elizabeth (Libby) Straughan
Anastasia (Stas) Gramatakos
Willow Ross
Chris Brennan-Horley (phase 1)
Candice Boyd (phase 1)
Kim Doyle (phase 1)
Anna Lewis (phase 1)
Sophie Takách (phase 1)
Partner:
City of Melbourne (phase one)
telling tree stories
One outcome of the project is a tree tour. There are images and directions to particular trees, as well as excerpts about that tree from a soundscape. The soundscape combines readings of emails to trees, environmental sounds from tree places, and imagined tree responses.
