Growing a Cultural Asset ... and a Community ... from Scratch

Over at Sydney College of the Arts, where sits my office amidst the beautiful, sprawling, highly political site of Callan Park in Rozelle, I have 'commissioned' a garden. Or perhaps 'curated' is a better word.  If I'm the curator, Lucas and Diego are 'the artists'. The idea is to transform a piece of unused land behind the Library, to use various 'logics' from the art world, from community activity and from permaculture and horticulture in ways that draw people to the place and enhance their sense of attachment to the place.  

It's a project to grow a cultural asset and to track the ways people express their commitment to that asset.

The blog, called 'Tending', is one of the ways we will track it:  http://www.tending.net.au.