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Urban Undercurrents: The Hidden Infrastructure of Wild Cities


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Format: Interdisciplinary Wild Cities Panel and Walk

A panel that roams, tracing the human and more-than-human entanglements of what lies beneath the city and its culture/natures. Artistic intervention, speculative proposition, community discussion—this live/digital event takes place in and between the cultural spaces of the Collingwood Yards and Collingwood Underground Carpark, inviting the audience into an experience of the city’s metaphoric and literal subterranea. What happens when climate action goes underground? How do government and industry agendas reverberate beneath our feet? What are the wild undercurrents and hidden infrastructures coursing all around—how do we encounter feral ecologies, contaminated creativity and stray ethics? And how do we make space for conversations and rituals that create the conditions for regeneration and wild life?


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Associate Professor Wendy Steele, Urban Research.

Prof David Carlin, Creative Writing.

Dr Fiona Hillary, Art in Public Space.

Dr Jordan Lacey, Soundscape Design.

Aviva Reed (Visual Ecologist), in collaboration with KERB Journal of Landscape Architecture), the PhD Research Praxis Collective (RMIT/Monash) and Master of Public Arts students (RMIT).


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