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This is a day-long interactive forum to discuss the ideas and creative flows of writing about place, green art, environment, culture, creativity, and community. Two speakers will present their work as seeds for discussion. The event is aimed at the interdisciplinary work of academics, students, artists, and writers that connects place and environment. (40 participants maximum and bookings are essential.)

Margaret Somerville is interested in writing place through the body. She likes to work in the space in between creative and academic writing and indigenous and western knowledges. Her experimental writing combines journal writing, spoken word, multiple voices, visual images, and sensory responsiveness to place. Her most recent projects have been about how we learn about place and form community - in the brown coal mining communities of Latrobe Valley Victoria, and in relation to water in the drylands of the Murray-Darling Basin. Her latest publication Always unfinished business: of singing the country is an alternative version of a catalogue to accompany an exhibition of stories and artworks about water. It explores place-making-in-process within an Indigenous/non-Indigenous project team. Margaret is the Professor of Education at Monash University. Recommended pre-reading: Body/Landscape Journal and google ‘place pedagogies’.

Paul Carter is an internationally acclaimed author, scholar, designer and artist. His latest book, Dark Writing: geography, performance, design, explores the nexus between spatial history, and placemaking theory and practice. Previous books include The Road to Botany Bay, The Lie of the Land, Material Thinking, Parrot, The Sound In-Between and Repressed Spaces. Paul is Creative Director of Material Thinking, a Melbourne-based placemaking research and design studio. Major placemaking commissions include Nearamnew, Federation Square, Melbourne; Relay, Homebush Bay, 2000 Olympics (with Ruark Lewis); and Golden Grove, University of Sydney. Paul is currently designing a public space project in Darwin. Recommended pre-reading: Material Thinking and google material thinking.

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Other Floating Land writers’ events

When: Sunday June 21, 9.30am to 4.00pm

Where: The TopTent at the Apollonian Hotel, Boreen Point

Cost: $65 - includes lunch and morning tea

Bookings: Noosa Regional Gallery - 5449 5340

Hunter Gatherer - Kim Guthrie