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Wild City

  • This project was seeded by City of Melbourne through ArtPlay’s New Ideas Lab 2018
  • It has appeared at: Sydney Opera House  /  Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne  /  Hyphen Gallery   /  Dream Big – South Australia Museum  /  Melbourne Knowledge Week  /  Gertrude St Projection Festival   /  Kyneton Town Hall   /  Hawthorn Arts Centre   /  Glen Eira City Council Gallery   /  Art for Social Change Exhibition   /  Trentham, Wonthaggi & Hepburn Primary Schools

WILD CITY EXHIBITION & WORKSHOP SERIES

Wild City is a workshop for children where we consider wild animals as citizens in urban spaces.

The project is concerned with providing an experience for learning, making and creative expression. Based on real world environmental issues of urban expansion, habitat loss and species extinction it presents positive actions from around the world as examples of change. In the workshops, I provide a miniature sculptural city and introduce children to ideas of human and animal architecture and show hybrid examples of co-existence. Children can then create and construct their ideas of how to create an animal friendly city which can then become a collaborative exhibition piece. The video below captured the first series of workshops with descriptions of what the children made and why it was important to them.

I was able to engage 15 Melbourne based urban ecologists, researchers and conservationists in the creation and delivery of this project. This clarified ideas on what challenges wild animals encounter in ever expanding human landscapes, and how these issues are currently being tackled. These specialists helped me to further my research in urban co-existence with the wild animal. Later, I have also able to have guest ecologists from Sydney as part of the Wild City experience in a season at the Sydney Opera House’s Centre for Creativity.

Wild City won the peoples choice award  in the ‘Art for Social Change’ exhibition at Incinerator Gallery

Here is a link to Wild City’s appearance at Boroondara Arts  or watch the longer video (shown in the ArtPlay gallery)   Wild City Video – 7 mins

 

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