Alexandra Crosby
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Crosby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Crosby |
| SIGNATURE | CROSBY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8959-7971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Indonesian creativity can influence dominant ideas . of design and sustainability
Fresh Indonesian approaches to design, such as repair, are helping address urgent issues caused by climate breakdown
AI-Supported Participatory Workshops
Considering the lived experience of communities is key when making decisions in complex scenarios, such as preparing for and responding to crisis events. The article reports on three participatory workshops, which assigned community representative roles to workshop participants. Using role-playing as a method, participants were given the task of collaborating on making a decision relating to a speculative crisis scenario. Across the workshops, we…
Elliat Rich
Visually Communicating Artificial Urban Wetlands
Introduction Urban wetlands in Australia are under threat, yet they provide benefits for climate change mitigation, pollution reduction, habitat provision, and socioecological connection. In what is now known as Sydney’s inner south and inner west, wetlands were significant places maintained by Aboriginal peoples for millennia (Foster). The violent colonial history that shaped Sydney unfolded along its extensive and dynamic wetlands and connectin…
From photo documentation to photo diagrams
The visualization of nature in cities fundamentally impacts how we imagine the urban environment and our role in caring for it. Across Australia, the project of urban renewal imagines and designs specific typologies of urban nature. These typologies can obscure grass root forms of environmental stewardship and their connection through civic ecologies. Yet, at this time of environmental change, residents’ engagement with urban ecologies is vital. …
Counter-mapping Surabaya
This paper connects the concept of ‘cities within the city’ to the practice of counter-mapping. We explore how people in Surabaya (Indonesia) come together to design, plan and imagine their city differently through counter-mapping. We focus on two design activist projects called Pertigaan Map (pertigaan means three-way intersection) and Suroboyo Ngalor Ngidul (Surabaya to the North and South). In this visual essay, we compile, present and analyze…
Art Is Magic
Magic and art are products of human connection with the universe, offering answers to questions of meaning and working in interstices between fiction and reality. Magic can and does permeate all forms of media and is depicted as both entertaining and dangerous, as shaping world views, and as practised by a vast array of individuals and groups across cultures. Creative practices in cinema, radio, and installation art suggest that deceptive illusio…
Edge
Planty Design Activism
In cities across Australia and elsewhere, individuals and groups are experimenting with initiatives to link urban dwellers to local ecologies and strengthen the relation with and awareness of the environment. Community and street gardens, bush regeneration working bees, botanical and bird-watching expeditions in city parks and green areas are examples of this renewed interest in urban ecologies. What role can we, as design researchers, play in co…
Repair
W e are surrounded by broken things and environments: 1 designed objects, spaces and systems in need of repair. Repair is a commonsense but partial answer to overconsumption and landfill crisis. It is conservative yet progressive. But as a concept and a material reality, repair can also overwhelm. With increasing technological complexity, and decreasing time, resources, and skill, the ethical and logistical questions around repair abound: What sh…
The not-yet-tropical
Mapping and fitness apps, government agencies and departments, and citizen science projects provide a wealth of data on urban green spaces, charting parks, reserves, and green corridors in and around Sydney. These maps represent vegetation as surface and, as Doreen Massey in the 2005 book For Space noted about other types of Western maps, detach the observer from the object of their gaze. The authors argue that, in order to make recombinant ecolo…
Contemporary Indonesian Fashion
This is a brilliant decolonizing book that brings together important issues in Indonesian fashion: women’s empowerment, sustainability, corruption and morality. There are many ways to approach this
Remapping heritage and the garden suburb
Gardens in Australia are considered an important site of heritage maintenance and negotiation for their capacity to materialise transformations in everyday life, design, lifestyles, demographics, environment, as well as social and cultural practices. In the case of conservation areas, gardens tend to be valued in terms of their closeness and potential to preserve specific historical elements. Plants in these gardens are cultivated to evoke period…
Counting on Carrington Road
As urban renewal agendas are fortified in cities globally, ‘creativity’ – as contained within discourses of the creative industries, the Creative City and the creative economy – is circulated as the currency of secure post-industrial urban futures. Using the nexus between creativity and the urban as a starting point, the authors investigate how local enterprises visually communicate the urban in a neighbourhood that is characterized by the interf…
Designing Futures in Indonesia
Design is a wide reaching and unruly idea, often associated with seamless global mobility, ubiquitous consumerism, elite urban tastes, and fast paced economic growth. But design is also increasingly understood to be operating at edges, as a necessary response to the ethical and political challenges of advanced global capitalism. Design is both the problem and the solution, and effects everything. As Tony Fry writes ‘Design–the designer and design…
Using video and online subtitling to communicate across languages from West Papua
In this paper we examine mediated practices and experiences of online translation and subtitling. Our paper is based on a collaboration with EngageMedia − a not‐for‐profit organisation based in Australia and Indonesia − and is specifically focused on its work in West Papua. We argue that the video‐hosting and online subtitling that is enabled through EngageMedia's websites, while mobilising West Papuan stories in a logical, relatively fast and or…
Value the Edge
Permaculture is a creative design process that is based on ethics and design principles. It guides us to mimic the patterns and relationships we can find in nature and can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even economics. (permacultureprinciples.com)This paper considers permaculture as an example of counterculture in Australia. Permaculture is a neo…
Remixing environmentalism in Blora, Central Java 2005–10
This article explores the environment movement that formed in Central Java after the New Order. It discusses how activists situate their movement at global, national and local scales, and compares this work of situating to the cultural process both Lessig and Knobel and Lankshear refer to as ‘remix’. The national network of student nature lovers’ clubs (Mahasiswa Pecinta Alam or Mapala), local genealogies of resistance to colonialism, the politic…
Value the Edge
Permaculture is a creative design process that is based on ethics and design principles. It guides us to mimic the patterns and relationships we can find in nature and can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even economics. (permacultureprinciples.com)This paper considers permaculture as an example of counterculture in Australia. Permaculture is a neo…
Remixing environmentalism in Blora, Central Java 2005–10
This article explores the environment movement that formed in Central Java after the New Order. It discusses how activists situate their movement at global, national and local scales, and compares this work of situating to the cultural process both Lessig and Knobel and Lankshear refer to as ‘remix’. The national network of student nature lovers’ clubs (Mahasiswa Pecinta Alam or Mapala), local genealogies of resistance to colonialism, the politic…
The not-yet-tropical
Mapping and fitness apps, government agencies and departments, and citizen science projects provide a wealth of data on urban green spaces, charting parks, reserves, and green corridors in and around Sydney. These maps represent vegetation as surface and, as Doreen Massey in the 2005 book For Space noted about other types of Western maps, detach the observer from the object of their gaze. The authors argue that, in order to make recombinant ecolo…
Counter-mapping Surabaya
This paper connects the concept of ‘cities within the city’ to the practice of counter-mapping. We explore how people in Surabaya (Indonesia) come together to design, plan and imagine their city differently through counter-mapping. We focus on two design activist projects called Pertigaan Map (pertigaan means three-way intersection) and Suroboyo Ngalor Ngidul (Surabaya to the North and South). In this visual essay, we compile, present and analyze…
Remapping heritage and the garden suburb
Gardens in Australia are considered an important site of heritage maintenance and negotiation for their capacity to materialise transformations in everyday life, design, lifestyles, demographics, environment, as well as social and cultural practices. In the case of conservation areas, gardens tend to be valued in terms of their closeness and potential to preserve specific historical elements. Plants in these gardens are cultivated to evoke period…
Using video and online subtitling to communicate across languages from West Papua
In this paper we examine mediated practices and experiences of online translation and subtitling. Our paper is based on a collaboration with EngageMedia − a not‐for‐profit organisation based in Australia and Indonesia − and is specifically focused on its work in West Papua. We argue that the video‐hosting and online subtitling that is enabled through EngageMedia's websites, while mobilising West Papuan stories in a logical, relatively fast and or…
Remixing environmentalism in Blora, Central Java 2005–10
This article explores the environment movement that formed in Central Java after the New Order. It discusses how activists situate their movement at global, national and local scales, and compares this work of situating to the cultural process both Lessig and Knobel and Lankshear refer to as ‘remix’. The national network of student nature lovers’ clubs (Mahasiswa Pecinta Alam or Mapala), local genealogies of resistance to colonialism, the politic…
Using video and online subtitling to communicate across languages from West Papua
In this paper we examine mediated practices and experiences of online translation and subtitling. Our paper is based on a collaboration with EngageMedia − a not‐for‐profit organisation based in Australia and Indonesia − and is specifically focused on its work in West Papua. We argue that the video‐hosting and online subtitling that is enabled through EngageMedia's websites, while mobilising West Papuan stories in a logical, relatively fast and or…
Value the Edge
Permaculture is a creative design process that is based on ethics and design principles. It guides us to mimic the patterns and relationships we can find in nature and can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even economics. (permacultureprinciples.com)This paper considers permaculture as an example of counterculture in Australia. Permaculture is a neo…
Designing Futures in Indonesia
Design is a wide reaching and unruly idea, often associated with seamless global mobility, ubiquitous consumerism, elite urban tastes, and fast paced economic growth. But design is also increasingly understood to be operating at edges, as a necessary response to the ethical and political challenges of advanced global capitalism. Design is both the problem and the solution, and effects everything. As Tony Fry writes ‘Design–the designer and design…
Counting on Carrington Road
As urban renewal agendas are fortified in cities globally, ‘creativity’ – as contained within discourses of the creative industries, the Creative City and the creative economy – is circulated as the currency of secure post-industrial urban futures. Using the nexus between creativity and the urban as a starting point, the authors investigate how local enterprises visually communicate the urban in a neighbourhood that is characterized by the interf…
Remapping heritage and the garden suburb
Gardens in Australia are considered an important site of heritage maintenance and negotiation for their capacity to materialise transformations in everyday life, design, lifestyles, demographics, environment, as well as social and cultural practices. In the case of conservation areas, gardens tend to be valued in terms of their closeness and potential to preserve specific historical elements. Plants in these gardens are cultivated to evoke period…
Repair
W e are surrounded by broken things and environments: 1 designed objects, spaces and systems in need of repair. Repair is a commonsense but partial answer to overconsumption and landfill crisis. It is conservative yet progressive. But as a concept and a material reality, repair can also overwhelm. With increasing technological complexity, and decreasing time, resources, and skill, the ethical and logistical questions around repair abound: What sh…
The not-yet-tropical
Mapping and fitness apps, government agencies and departments, and citizen science projects provide a wealth of data on urban green spaces, charting parks, reserves, and green corridors in and around Sydney. These maps represent vegetation as surface and, as Doreen Massey in the 2005 book For Space noted about other types of Western maps, detach the observer from the object of their gaze. The authors argue that, in order to make recombinant ecolo…
Contemporary Indonesian Fashion
This is a brilliant decolonizing book that brings together important issues in Indonesian fashion: women’s empowerment, sustainability, corruption and morality. There are many ways to approach this
Planty Design Activism
In cities across Australia and elsewhere, individuals and groups are experimenting with initiatives to link urban dwellers to local ecologies and strengthen the relation with and awareness of the environment. Community and street gardens, bush regeneration working bees, botanical and bird-watching expeditions in city parks and green areas are examples of this renewed interest in urban ecologies. What role can we, as design researchers, play in co…
Art Is Magic
Magic and art are products of human connection with the universe, offering answers to questions of meaning and working in interstices between fiction and reality. Magic can and does permeate all forms of media and is depicted as both entertaining and dangerous, as shaping world views, and as practised by a vast array of individuals and groups across cultures. Creative practices in cinema, radio, and installation art suggest that deceptive illusio…
Edge
Visually Communicating Artificial Urban Wetlands
Introduction Urban wetlands in Australia are under threat, yet they provide benefits for climate change mitigation, pollution reduction, habitat provision, and socioecological connection. In what is now known as Sydney’s inner south and inner west, wetlands were significant places maintained by Aboriginal peoples for millennia (Foster). The violent colonial history that shaped Sydney unfolded along its extensive and dynamic wetlands and connectin…
From photo documentation to photo diagrams
The visualization of nature in cities fundamentally impacts how we imagine the urban environment and our role in caring for it. Across Australia, the project of urban renewal imagines and designs specific typologies of urban nature. These typologies can obscure grass root forms of environmental stewardship and their connection through civic ecologies. Yet, at this time of environmental change, residents’ engagement with urban ecologies is vital. …
Counter-mapping Surabaya
This paper connects the concept of ‘cities within the city’ to the practice of counter-mapping. We explore how people in Surabaya (Indonesia) come together to design, plan and imagine their city differently through counter-mapping. We focus on two design activist projects called Pertigaan Map (pertigaan means three-way intersection) and Suroboyo Ngalor Ngidul (Surabaya to the North and South). In this visual essay, we compile, present and analyze…
How Indonesian creativity can influence dominant ideas . of design and sustainability
Fresh Indonesian approaches to design, such as repair, are helping address urgent issues caused by climate breakdown
AI-Supported Participatory Workshops
Considering the lived experience of communities is key when making decisions in complex scenarios, such as preparing for and responding to crisis events. The article reports on three participatory workshops, which assigned community representative roles to workshop participants. Using role-playing as a method, participants were given the task of collaborating on making a decision relating to a speculative crisis scenario. Across the workshops, we…
Elliat Rich
Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Business (3 works)