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. She works and lives on the unceded lands of Māori people, and grew up on those of the Anishinaabe.
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. She has had the privilege of learning about people, plants and environmental change in Gadjerong Country.
ELIZABETH STRAUGHAN
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Libby is a cultural geographer with posts at the University of Melbourne and the University of Wollongong. Her research focuses on the sensory and emotional aspects of embodied practices.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS:
Lesley Head (University of Melbourne), Anastasia (Stas) Gramatakos (University of Melbourne), Willow Ross (University of Melbourne), Chris Brennan-Horley (University of Wollongong, phase 1), Candice Boyd (University of Melbourne, phase 1), Kim Doyle (University of Melbourne), Anna Lewis (University of Wollongong, phase 1), Sophie Takách (Monash University, 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.
