Posts by: Bonnie
This container garden brightens the corner of Mimersgade and Midgårdsgade in our Ydre Nørrebro neighborhood. The little garden of potted plants is a dogged and valiant attempt at carving out green space in a broad expanse of concrete. It’s closest competition being a ring of anemic imported palm trees, […]
When you have a small child you often take long aimless walks around your neighborhood (and maybe even when you don’t have a small child in your life). For me, these walks are a great time to soak up the little neighborhood nuances that shape the place we call home.
Lately, I have been […]
This video made by a Danish design team for Greenpeace is up for a Webby award. It also shares an important message about the crisis in unsustainable fishing practices. Watch it!
We knew the artist and activist, Nicole Garneau from Chicago, but got to know her more deeply during the time she spent in Europe last year both in Copenhagen and London. In London, Nicole lead the performance workshop, Art-Oil-Numbers-Bodies-Love in association with Platform London, about performative responses to the issues of […]
Link love…Design solves environment
By Bonnie On 26 April, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Design, Environmental activism, Farms, Friday connect
This week’s link round up focuses on design and art projects that help, improve, or shape the environment. Do you think they work?
Ocean cleanup, is it possible? A young designer has generated a possible solution to the massive amount of plastic floating in the ocean. Food shortage? No problem just re-engineer […]
A selection of recently documented building bushes providing habitat to urban birds in Berlin and Copenhagen.
These images are part of our ongoing archive of urban habitat solutions for non-human participants in public life.
A MQ friend, JP Goguen, library and information scientist by day and wild world enthusiast in his off hours, has a new foraging project. Goguen has been using social media to share information about wild plants–their names, what they look like, and when to forage them. He posts about wild “weeds” like garlic […]
Our resilient soy bean plant
By Bonnie On 9 April, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Growing, Kitchen, Neighborhood, Resilience, Sojabønner
Last year we grew some heirloom soybeans at DRYK Nørrebro, the roof top urban garden in our neighborhood. We wanted to grow seeds that could tell a story and be shared from year to year. Growing these soy beans, which even though they came from a seed […]
Last week, city workers came around the neighborhood and trimmed branches from the trees on Balders Plads in the Mythological Quarter. The images below are the remnants of their efforts. Living with trees, plants, and wildlife in city spaces requires careful management. Even the smallest bits of wildness in the urban landscape are carefully maintained. […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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Video interview:
Watch our interview of SeedBroadcast, a mobile project that is part seed library and part seed-saving-story-collecting machine-recording the stories of seed saving, farming, and food sovereignty work being done around the US.
BOOK: Deep Routes
Bonnie co-edited this collection of essays that reflect on who gets to define a region and what the struggles are in relation to being in a place and demanding social justice across many issues and terrains.
Download a poster Bonnie made about biodiversity in a vacant lot in the Amager borough of Copenhagen, in collaboration with biologist, Inger Kærgaard, ornithologist, Jørn Lennart Larsen and botanist, Camilla Sønderberg Brok: A BRIEF TAXONOMY OF A LOT
We made and installed a network of bat houses in Urbana, Illinois, to support the local and regional bat population, but also to begin a conversation about re-making the built environment.
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BOOK REVIEW:
We write often about artists and art groups that work with putting ‘culture’ back in agriculture. Here is a new favorite: myvillages, a group of three women based in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Read more...
Post Revolutionary Exercises
We really admire the dedicated hard work of Kultivator who seeks to fuse agriculture and art in their work. Click this sentence to get a PDF of their poster collection called "Post Revolutionary Exercises."
Culture Breakers
One of many books we collected that deeply inspire us. Get the PDF of the book.
Cultural Practices Within And Across
This amazing book networks urban and rural resilience and sustainability projects around the world. Deeply inspiring projects in Romania, Paris, San Francisco, and elsewhere.
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