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This symposium brings together a diverse range of voices around themes of colonialism and extraction as part of an ongoing collaboration between UTS Landscape and the Harvard Graduate School of Design Landscape Program. The event coincides with a travelling studio from the Harvard GSD and conjoint visit by the ten 2025 Loeb Fellows. The symposium will provide a forum for discussions around the impacts of relentless pursuit of economic growth that has propelled an ever-expanding demand for the extraction of natural resources, erasing, shaping, and altering cultures while transforming landscapes. Through the pursuit of power over resources, environments, and people, zones of rich cultural and bio-diversity have been devastated, communities displaced, and profound racial, social, and economic disparities have emerged. These are issues inherently intertwined with environmental changes that produce a ‘climate colonialism’. Extractive practices have caused ecological damage, perpetuated systemic inequalities, and power imbalances that disproportionately affect marginalised communities that generates perpetual zones of sacrificed landscapes. The symposium will draw together critical voices across art, design, science and culture to explore alternative narratives, institutional regimes, and new legacies that might structure different perceptions and values attributed to land and its non-human counterparts.
Chair: Rosalea Monacella, Andrew Toland (UTS) and John Peterson
Panellists:
Tira Foran, CSIRO
Bianca Hester, UNSW
Janet Laurence, artist
Shana Griffin, Loeb Fellow
Matt Smith, Loeb Fellow
Sahar Qawasmi, Loeb fellow
Sam Spurr, University of Newcastle
Jessica Weir, Western Sydney University
This event is organised through UTS Landscape Architecture and is part of UTS School of Architecture’s Solidarity public program.