‘The Road Knows’ is a live theatre performance-in-development, which appropriates the urban technological infrastructure of bus travel as a place for ‘sitting on Country’. The bus is a moving, ‘glass case’ theatre and the City is co-writer, character, and artistic collaborator. The voice of the City is articulated through their vocabulary of place names, which are arranged into specific sequences by the bus route. This project uses these phrases to activate portals, to exit the Anglosphere. These portals can reframe time and space, enabling stories and characters from many times and places to enter the journey through the City. The Everywhen can provide more stable, safe and secure possibilities for the voice of the Land to enter into the placemaking, which is otherwise, drowned out by colonial narratives. Sequences of placenames, organised by travel and land use, anywhere in Australia provide accessible portals into the Everywhen.

An understanding of the complex-system nature of the world—system thinking—can enable us to discuss, accept, mitigate and perhaps influence the emergent and uncertain behaviour of the earth’s social, biological and physical systems. The extremes of these behaviours emerge as contemporary ecological and social challenges. Taking system theorist Donella Meadows’ guidance to “listen to what the system tells us” as a starting point a digital media artwork You Are Here is developed. As an interactive 3D geospatial data visu-alisation platform, the viewer is immersed in curated content sourced collaboratively from any scientific, cultural or arts geospatial-based research and potentially from alternative knowledge systems. Suggesting the complex and dynamic relationship between the earth’s systems the work encourages the viewer to 'listen'—to become attentive and responsive—to how these systems interact and form system-based cognitive associations for navigating the inherently uncertain systems basis of the world. The first connection of the viewer with this content is made through visualisations based on lived experience and in the initial work this is the scientifically modelled journey through the atmosphere of individual breaths.