Public Lecture: Dr Louisa King, Disturbed Terrains: Groundwater, Power, and the Urban Ecological Imaginary

​This lecture will explore how public parks and places of leisure are both materially constructed through their relationship to groundwater and narratively retold through its upwells. Drawing on projects across Clifton Spring (Wadawurrung Country), Quor-nóng (Wiradjuri Woorinong), and the Gully (Gundungurra Country), the lecture examines how subterranean waters unsettle aesthetics, power relations, and assumptions of stable public grounds, revealing the entanglements of human and more-than-human worlds in urban spaces.

​Bio Dr Louisa King is a landscape architect and lecturer at UTS on unceded Gadi Country. She examines how human–water relations unsettle the histories of parks and public spaces. Working across action research, archival, and creative practice, her work seeks to reveal hidden ecologies, cultural narratives, and possibilities for living with disturbed landscapes.

​This lecture is part of a series curated by Saskia Schut and Athanasios Lazarou, Architecture and Landscape Architecture Programs, Adelaide University.

​Light refreshments served from 5:30, for a 6pm start.