CampusFlora encourages the whole campus community to engage with the diverse array of plants growing on our campus grounds. Anyone with the app, including those with restricted mobility, can appreciate the University grounds.
Campus Flora is an app that maps the location of individual plants and provides botanical information for each species.
The app offers themed collections of plants to support learning in the formal curriculum and informal learning, just for fun, which appeal to the broader community.
Collections include:
Staff and students in other discipline areas are invited to partner to develop new collections to showcase the living campus environment.
From the outset this project was undertaken as a partnership between students and staff. Students working on the first iteration of CampusFlora (2010) co-designed the user interface, designed the CampusFlora icon, contributed all the photographs and student partners have collaborated on research outputs (e.g. Dimon et al., 2019; Cheung et al., 2015; Pettit et al., 2014 a, b)
CampusFlora software is OpenSource (GPLv3 licence) to enable other to offer their own CampusFlora.
Code repositories can be found at the links below:
In 2016, CSIRO selected the CampusFlora project for the prestigious ONPRIME mentoring program (Quinnell et al., 2016). This was the first time the University of Sydney was represented.
CampusFlora has been short-listed for two ReImagine Higher Education Sustainability Awards (2023, 2017).
Quinnell, R. (2017). Australian Award for University Teaching. Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning: For sustained contributions to designing and developing innovative, flexible e-learning tools to inspire engagement with the complexity of Botanical systems.
To view a list of publications related to the CampusFlora app, visit the academic profile of Associate Professor Rosanne Quinell.
