Inhabiting Benjafield is a participatory public art project that centres around a mobile studio / micro publishing trolley that works in the vicinity of Benjafield Park and Newtown Rivulet in Moonah. 

The project calls up responses to place through the creation of artist books. Benjafield Park is much like many urban parks, designated as communal green space through urban planning and minimally maintained by council. The park and adjacent rivulet are rich and diverse in social, historical and geographical attributes, yet are standardised through our top down planning approaches and are frequently empty spaces. They fail to hold or pull people.
The mobile studio invites and guides users of these places to publish a zine / hot dog book / eight-page-fold book; exploring the unseen stories and details of these locations. This project seeks to build partnerships and connections, while developing community agency around how we inhabit local green spaces.  

These books that are produced build ‘The Inhabiting Benjafield Library’.

Photographer: Nola Johnson