Urban Wilds at Westgate Park with Jock Gilbert

Join Jock Gilbert at Westgate Park to deepen your understanding and engender further discussion on the themes discussed in the Urban Wilds keynote presentation on Saturday 20 May.

This discussion explores the tensions inherent in the Botanic Garden as a landscape archetype arising from a particular mode of (Western) thought and how reframing of this might allow it to become facilitatory of a new urban wildness; drawing from place, offering habitat and refuge and creating new systems of living.

Join Tim, Emma, and Jock for distributed site-specific talks the following day, Sunday 21 May, to deepen your understanding and engender further discussion on the themes discussed in the Urban Wilds keynote presentation. Participants will experience the counterpoints of the Oak lawn at the Botanic Gardens with Tim, the industrial ecology of Westgate Park with Jock, and wrinkles in the suburban fabric of the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor in South Melbourne, whilst in the landscape.

Bookings can be made for individual sessions or the whole series.