Spring is starting to come to Copenhagen. Good news after the long dark winter. Even though green is starting to appear outside, houseplants still play an important role in keeping us city dwellers connected, ever so slightly, to what is wild around us. Here are two new house plants of the MQ illustrations.
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 […]
This is the first installment of what will be an irregular series of reflections on the waste stream we find flowing all around us. More than any other place we have lived, there is an enormous percentage of the trash that other people in our neighborhood throw out that consists of damaged and perfectly usable […]
Here are some new drawings of house plants in our neighborhood. It has been trial and error figuring out what grows and what doesn’t in our apartment. We don’t get much light, so we try different things, like grow lights, and observing what others have been able to grow in the apartments surrounding ours. House […]
We really miss having a garden of our own and sometimes we raise potato starts in our apartment for no other reason than that they make us happy and keeps our intimate knowledge of how to do this close at hand.
I was cleaning out some old pots we had in […]
Our daughter needed a kid sized bookshelf. So we made one that was just her height. We needed a bookshelf for our books, too. The simple design, a single board, on each shelf required bookends to hold the books in place. Brett found some pieces of wood on a […]
Images of Farming
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. Founding member Wapke Feenstra, recently sent the MQ the group’s new book, Images of […]
Friday Connect: The Trees Are Talking!
This Friday Connect takes a look at an assortment of projects that emphasize the interconnections we feel with trees. They each visualize or give voice to trees and what trees communicate with us.
The trees are already talking to one another. Professor Suzanne Simard has been doing research in […]
Onsdag Billede / Wednesday Image: Montessori-Living-Structure Bed
We recently reconfigured our family’s co-sleeping, lofted Living Structure (a la Ken Isaacs) into two separate beds. Pictured is our daughter’s new Montessori-Living-Structure lowrider! We will make a longer post in a couple of months about this bed after an article we have written about it and other things related to […]
Interview: Sue Spaid
We recently had the privilege of talking with independent curator, Sue Spaid, on the occasion of the new exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots. The exhibition focuses on artists in relationship to agriculture, and runs from September 22-January 20, 2013 in […]
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.
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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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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