Alexandra Crosby

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Sheas Creek runs into Alexandra Canal. Photo: Ilaria Vanni

Bell frogs, dugong bones and giant cauliflowers: water stories come to life at Green Square

Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney; Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney, and Shannon Foster, University of Technology Sydney

Long before Green Square was a huge urban renewal project it was Country known to Traditional Owners for its wetlands. Until now, those water stories have remained largely invisible.
From Country to Culture: Artist: Lisa Waup. Designer: Verner. Collection: Journeys. Dylan Buckee

How Indigenous fashion designers are taking control and challenging the notion of the heroic, lone genius

Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney; Jason De Santolo, University of Technology Sydney; Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, and Treena Clark, University of Technology Sydney

Indigenous fashion design today is being shaped by First Nations people at every level.
Apple’s industrial design has played a fundamental role in transforming computers from machines for tinkerers into desirable objects of self-actualisation. Shutterstock

Design and repair must work together to undo our legacy of waste

Tom Lee, University of Technology Sydney; Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney; Clare M. Cooper, University of Technology Sydney; Jesse Adams Stein, University of Technology Sydney, and Katherine Scardifield, University of Technology Sydney

With the benefit of hindsight, we might finally see that the iPhone was the opposite of minimalism.
At first glance, old industrial sites, like this one in Carrington Street, don’t look like much. But they provide vital spaces for creative precincts to flourish. Paul Jones

Can our cities’ thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’?

Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong; Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney; Carl Grodach, Monash University; Craig Lyons, University of Wollongong; Justin O'Connor, Monash University, and Xin Gu, Monash University

A new project documents who uses urban industrial lands slated for redevelopment. It reveals a vibrant but largely hidden sector at the interface between creative industries and small manufacturing.
Arthur Bolkas and David Woods in The Chat, in which the fate of a prisoner who has breached parole is decided.

Putting audiences, as well as actors, in the hot seat

Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney

When former prisoners – and audience members – come together in a play examining our justice system, the result is unruly, uncomfortable and worthwhile.
In Crystal Romeo, artist Técha Noble presents a diverse body of work: etchings, experimental projections and costume, brought together by her own sophisticated version of camp aesthetics. Alex Davies

Técha Noble’s Crystal Romeo negotiates the camp in Australian landscape art

Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney

The work of Norman Lindsay is a starting point for Techa Noble’s camp challenges to the traditional modes of representing the Australian landscape.
A collaboration between Indonesian and Australian artists to build new instruments is cultural exchange in action. National Gallery of Victoria

Instrument builders at the NGV: experience it before it changes

Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney

Curators Kristi Monfries and Joel Stern know the value of slow and noisy collaboration. At the Instrument Builders Project (IBP), currently hosted by NGV Studio at Federation Square, Melbourne, you can…

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