Adelaide, South Australia: January 2020
Adelaide Botanic Garden, Photo by Daniel Cavicchi
Description: Collaboration between RISD and University of South Australia (UniSA), based at Adelaide Botanic Garden.
Students: Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Textiles, Architecture, Film/Animation/Video—with UniSA students in Printmaking, Architecture, Contemporary Art, Graphic Design, Painting, Photography, and Illustration.
Themes: Changing indigenous and settler conceptions of the environment, historical dialogues about land, competing ideologies of place.
Selected Essays: Matthew Colloff, “Red River Gum Consciousness;” Denis Byrne, “Deep Nation: Australia's Acquisition of an Indigenous Past;” Rob Amery and Georgina Yambo Williams, “Reclaiming Through Renaming: The Reinstatement of Kaurna Toponyms in Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains.”
Guests: Moogy Sumner, Ngarrindjeri Elder; Stephen Bowers, ceramicist and illustrator; Ellen Trevorrow, Ngarrindjeri weaving artist; Peter Owen, Director, Wilderness Society; Megan Callahan, textile artist; Christopher Houghton, filmmaker.
Exhibition: Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Garden, January 2020.
Student Work
