A Brief Project History

Grasses & Grasslands Cultures
October 12, 2023

In this essay I outline the chronology of the Carbon Dating project between 2019-23

Gerry Turpin: Ethnobotanist

Indigenous Cultures
August 30, 2023

Dr Gerry Turpin speaks with us on Mbabaram Country about the importance of grasses and ethnobotany

Carbon_Dating’s multispecies communities: towards decolonising creative practice

Indigenous Cultures
May 22, 2023

Exploring underlying ideas/objectives of Carbon_Dating, including First Nations-advised directions

Confronting Plant Blindness: the Carbon Dating Project

Ecological Knowledges
April 29, 2023

Exploring intersections of plants, people and culture in the Carbon Dating Project

HOTA Yarning Circle: Living Ecology

HOTA Yarning Circle
April 29, 2023

A public event hosted by HOTA (Home of the Arts) in collaboration with the Carbon Dating project

Fire & Carbon: Caring For Native Grasslands

Indigenous Cultures
April 28, 2023

Explores the role of fire in traditional and european cosmologies, histories and culture

Carbon Dating Press Release

Project Overviews
October 6, 2020

Media Release, Oct 26th 2022: An Overview of the Carbon Dating project

Rediscovering Australia's remnant ecosystems

Ecological Knowledges
October 6, 2020

A focus on the scientific and cultural importance of the Carbon Dating Project

Ecosexual bathhouse

A playful, even problematic, take on our relationship with plants

Grasses & Grasslands Cultures

It was no accident

Historical, government-sanctioned grass introductions

Science of Grasses

C3 and C4 plants + Climate Change

Surprising information about C4 and C3 plants

Science of Grasses

Science and ‘plant neurobiology’ now tell us that grasses possess their own unique versions of what we term ‘consciousness’, ‘intelligence’, ‘memory’ and ‘awareness’.