Saskia Beudel’s research is interdisciplinary in approach, incorporating environmental and cultural history, memory, ecology, and life-writing to examine processes of placemaking. She is the author of the novel Borrowed Eyes (Picador, 2002), which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Dobbie Award. She has published widely as an essayist in the field of literary nonfiction, with works appearing in literary magazines including The Iowa Review (forthcoming), HEAT, Overland and anthologised in Best Australian Essays (2006). An article on ecological issues in central Australia is forthcoming in Cultural Studies Review.
In her role as Postdoctoral Research Associate at NIEA, Saskia is co-authoring a book with Professor Jill Bennett for UNSW Press. The book explores the capacity and potential of the public arts to promote urban sustainability. It examines four key themes of Water, Waste, Energy and Food in Sydney in order to ask how the arts might both envisage and re-imagine networks of supply and consumption. Saskia employs an interdisciplinary approach to these themes. The book grows out of Prof Bennett’s ARC Linkage Project, Curating Cites: The social and ecological potential of public art practice.
Saskia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from RMIT, an Master of Arts from the University of Melbourne and PhD from University of Technology, Sydney.
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