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The article discusses the connection between the public and gardening to understand everyday spaces and academic practice. It offers information on the Mass Observation Archive (MOA) which is designed to analyze the domestic garden with home, nature and the environment. It cites the Imagining the Garden exhibition at the Jubilee Library Brighton in England on June 25 to 30, 2007 where it displayed cards, posters and feedback from permaculture on how to improve the garden for public exhibition.

This paper documents and discusses the creation of a performance (dance and song) by 12 sanitation workers in Nepal working with artists Alice Fox (UK) and Ashmina Ranjit (Nepal). This creative work was one element within an international, interdisciplinary research programme that explored shit flow, wastewater and marginality in five rapidly developing off-grid towns. Performed at the Lumbini Peace Park as part of the 2022 Women of the World Festival, an important objective of the work was raising awareness of issues affecting sanitation workers, who are among the most precarious workers in the world. Using photos and artist commentary, 'we' (geographers and artists) show how the performance (un)seen (un)clean opened a creative space through which to engage and circulate the lived experiences of workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]