We are constantly walking around our neighborhood trying to pay attention to how people use their houses, shared spaces, and the built environment. We regularly document some of the things we find to both better understand where we are and as possible inspiration for future projects. We thought it would be nice to share these […]
If you walk around our neighborhood at night, particularly during winter when it gets dark way too early, you will notice that in many apartments there are dramatic lamps hanging in the center of most rooms. Danes love beautiful, eccentric lamps. They seem to be an essential component in dealing with the long dark, grey […]
Happy New Year from all of us here in the heart of the Mythological Quarter in Ydre Nørrebro!
– Bonnie, Ada and Brett
What had started out as a short reflection on several different micro-habitats I had encountered over a rapid period of time, from traveling to Belgrade and then on a study tour across the southwestern United States with students from the academy where I teach, has turned into a much longer essay. It will […]
This is the second installment for MQ of reports of the micro-habitats we come across. We have a continued interest in how peoples’ behavior shapes the spaces they live in and the environments they enact. Over the past two months I have found myself in many different cities and situations and wanted to […]
This is the 3rd and final part of the report back on Giving Harbor.
PART 1
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Giving Harbor continued.
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A defaced Konservative Folkeparti [Conservative Peoples’ Party] poster across from the sign — the party was summarily trounced in the elections.
We learned later that the Conservative Peoples’ Party was having their election night party at the Marriott hotel. Permission […]
We have a deep interest in working in public spaces, of making art that lives outside of the elite, privileged spaces of artistic reception, and dwells in the world in many diverse ways. From time to time, we will report on our own individual projects within the context of the Mythological Quarter.
We have been gathering a bunch of disparate photos for a while, and have not had a good excuse to group them together until now. We hope to regularly post images of micro-habitats to call attention to what is around us and what we can build and support in the city. These situations inspire us […]
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.
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."
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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