On the occasion of the exhibition All That is Alive, UTS Gallery and the UTS Faculty of Design and Society present a multidisciplinary research symposium that brings together practitioners working with living systems and regenerative ecologies.

The two-day symposium, with a dedicated online program, will share insights into designing with biological processes, material kinships, and more-than-human ecologies. The symposium offers a forum for new ecological understandings and multispecies solidarity, inviting researchers, creative practitioners, and students to engage in planetary thinking and place-based practices.

Traversing the hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and subterranean worlds, the program explores the porous boundaries between earth systems and the diverse forms of life they sustain.

Tuesday 16 September – Thursday 18 September 

I will be speaking on Wednesday 17 September

Location: Peter Johnson Building, Level 4/702 Harris St, (Building 6, Level 4, Room 7)

9:30am–12:00pm — Session 1 | Subterranean Worlds: Life underfoot

Subterranean Worlds will explore underground networks, mycelial thinking, embodied labour, and the systems and knowledges that operate beneath the surface. 

• Pia Interlandi: “Afterlives of Bodies in Dress and Death”
• Keg de Souza: “Fungal Futures: Growth in the Shadows”
• Samuel Hodge: “Digging Up My Mother’s Garden”
• Kumar Biswajit Debnath: “‘Living’ Fungal Materials: Mycelium-Based Composites for Climate-Resilient Architecture”
• Alia Parker: “Repairing repair: Patchworking with fungi”