In The Round: A Conversation on Grounding Energy

Roundtable Description

This roundtable event brings together faculty and students in conversation on the topic of grounding energy - generating a counter-narrative to our historical extractive practices. We explore how design research pedagogies can critically re-narrate the enduring material flows and metabolic transformations of the Australian landscape over time, unveiling the evolving perceptions and values attributed to land and its non-human counterparts through periods of colonisation and capital growth.

Bio

Rosalea Monacella is a faculty member of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and recently appointed Adjunct Professor at UTS. Her expertise is in the careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of the city. Her design research practice explores the notion of the "thickened ground" through a careful and rigorous investigation of an expanded ecology of economic, ecological and social systems that shape the metabolic and material flows of the city. Speculating on alternative near-future cities and how they might respond to climate change, changing resource flows and ecologies of energy.

In The Round: A conversation on Grounding Energy is part of UTS School of Architecture’s Solidarity public program.

Image Caption/Credit: Fossilised Kauri Tree Stump found in Brown Coal Open Cut Mine 1962 Sourced from State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) Collection relating to the development of the electric power supply industry in Victoria, Australia.