River Cities Network

The River biographies theme focuses recording and archiving the historical and ephemeral heritage of the Kenh Te canal.​ The bio component will engage with historical archive records, digital storytelling, urban ethnography and community participation to develop innovative and novel methods for narrating the disruptions of the river ecosystem and its lifeworld. Reaching back over 100 years to tell multiple histories, the bio will connect the river as public space with local communities and document transformations of the river and human ecology.

The set of projects in the mapping theme focus on revitalisation and sustainability. Developing outputs that impact the community ensuring ownership of the project outcomes as culturally significant. The projects will help build and facilitate partnerships between researchers, practitioners and local communities of District 4 and District 7, exploring their relationship to the Kenh Te canal.

The revitalisation work package plans to record both communal and built heritage, and offer alternative ways to appreciate the value of the natural and built environments, tourism and education, in and around the Kenh Te canal.​ This case studies plans to address the disruption events the Kenh Te area has faced and continues to face. These are: new urban development paradigms that lack sustainable development considerations (lack of river-city connections), the impact of city level economic priorities (shipping, land transport, flood mitigation), overlooked community engagement (community resilience, right to the city, urban green space, neighbourhood safety) and finally ecological and environment degradation (animal and plant biodiversity).