Posts by: Brett
Here with this week’s link round up. Have a good weekend wherever you are.
Thanks PBS for remixing Mr. Rogers and reminding us to imagine with the garden of our minds. Maybe we can imagine a better way to deal with 400 parts per million ( atmospheric carbon […]
The kind editors over at Kritik magazine have given me their blessing to post the Danish version of my essay about Superkilen, titled “Superkilen: Park med ekstrem borgerinddragelse!” [Superkilen: Participatory Park Exreme!].
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Superkilen: Park med ekstrem borgerinddragelse!
By Brett On 6 May, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Critical essays, Design, Environmental activism, Neighborhood, Public space
Her er mit essay om Superkiln på dansk: download PDF.
If every building in Copenhagen had rain barrels like this one—that could be used for watering decorative plants—it would dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed to clean “waste water” as well as the amount of drinking water used in maintaining city gardens and flower beds. It would also help prepare us for more intense […]
More images from our ongoing collection of images and investigation of natural habitat for wild creatures in city spaces. These were all taken in Berlin last month. Click for more images.
Superkilen: Participatory Park Extreme!
By Brett On 17 April, 2013 · 5 Comments · In Arts and culture, Critical essays, Design, Neighborhood, Public space
We spend a lot of time paying attention to various aspects of our neighborhood. Sometimes it is through casual observations made in the course of our daily comings and goings. Other times, it is a sustained reflection and recurring engagement with things over longer periods. This post is about the latter impulse; I have […]
Die Kunst der Intervention II / The Art of Intervention 2
By Brett On 17 April, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Exhibitions, Habitat, Our Art Work
The Mythological Quarter was in residence in Berlin last year in the early spring at Lichtenberg Studios in Berlin. Uwe Jonas, the director of the residency program, puts together an exhibition each year of the work of the residents at the studios. We have a couple of things in this show reflecting on urban bird […]
Austin, Texas has the world’s largest urban bat population and they are very proud of it. This plaque is in the Austin airport commemorating the unique bat habitat that can be found under the Congress Ave. Bridge. I have been to Austin three times and have not been to see the bats. Bonnie and I […]
This is a funny solution for adding bird housing to a building—something we here at the MQ advocate very strongly for. It gives one all kinds of ideas of how to do a better job of securing a bird house to a window. It doesn’t look like any birds were using this house, and this […]
In addition to working with Bonnie on the Mythological Quarter, I work with a group of artists called Temporary Services. We recently put up an exhibition of photographs, at the Architectural Association in London, documenting ways in which people modify public spaces either through direct manipulation or collective neglect. We made a poster to accompany […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
Read Brett's essay about the park.
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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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• Buy the book.
• Download the book.
