Posts by: Bonnie

“A lot” of new poster to download

By On 13 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Habitat, Neighborhood, Our Art Work

Here in Copenhagen, this week marks the opening of alt_CPH 11 Encounters, the alternative art fair. The fair takes place at Fabrikken for Kunst og Design (Factory of Art and Design) and includes artists from the U.S. and Nordic countries. The Mythological Quarter is excited to be participating.

Anja Franke  and […]

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Fødevarefællesskab

By On 5 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Neighborhood

Fødevarefællesskab literally translates into “Food Community.” It is, in fact, a food co-op. Basically, a buying club style co-op. Every week members can pick up a huge bag of produce fresh from Danish farms. We joined the Fødevarefællesskab at the Nørrebro location. Joining means that you pay 100DKK/week and volunteer 3 hours per […]

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Calm the traffic

By On 3 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Growing, Neighborhood

What is a better way to calm down traffic on a busy street? Cities use speed bumps or concrete stanchions. If neighbors take traffic into their own hands, they are likely to get more creative.

For example, Portland, Oregon’s City Repair, is famous for their colorfully painted traffic calming […]

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Living Structure as bar

By On 29 August, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Design, Living structure

We have written before about using the Ken Isaacs designed Living Structures system in our home.  The simple grid based system can be used as a starting point for necessary things from shelving to the construction of whole houses. Currently, a Living Structure inspired system is our bed/shelving, providing a more […]

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Pepperz

By On 28 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Homesteading

The first time we visited Dyrk Nørrebro, the local urban garden on the roof of a school, one of the gardeners gave us a pepper plant. The little plant was wilty and all of the peppers were green. It had been growing since April with not a single ripe pepper. This […]

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Nettles from the school garden

By On 24 August, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Growing, Kitchen, Neighborhood

The curmudgeonly stinging nettle is a secret softy. Despite its prickly exterior, which if grabbed too quickly will leave red welts on your hands, it is actually full of super healthy vitamins and minerals. Vitamins A and C, potassium, iron and calcium are all smooshed into the mildly spiky plant. We recently used […]

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Haven, an art garden event

By On 22 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Design, Growing, Neighborhood

HAVEN is an exhibition in a garden. It was curated by the gardener.

Friday night we stopped by the HAVEN opening at B-huset, an artist run building that houses artists’ studios and events. B-huset is an old school building and the studios are in the old classrooms. A community […]

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Hacking the load cycle.

By On 18 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Living structure

Brett has an old style, heavy duty load carrying bicycle. Made from sturdy metal, the thing can tear down walls. Once, I stopped too quickly in front of him in the bike lane and he crashed into the back of my bike with his. It broke my fender. Pretty serious bike.

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Dyrk! Growing in Nørrebro

By On 14 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Neighborhood

Dyrk means ‘to cultivate’ or ‘cultivation’ in Danish. If you are gardening or growing plants, you would use the word dyrk in one conjugation or another. When I hear the word dyrk, I think about getting dirt under my fingernails, tomato plants, and worm bins. This is not too far away from the […]

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Paper Lamp Party

By On 12 August, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Design, Homesteading

A recent home improvement project here in the Mythological Quarter: Make your own lampshades. This was an easy project to do, but time consuming. So with more time than money, I made three paper mache lampshades for our apartment.


To make the lampshades for our hanging light […]

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