Forests in your pocket
Inger Kærgaard wants you to go take a hike…in the forest, at least.
We interviewed Inger in 2011 and have since become friends with this energetic, charming, and creative person, who is totally committed to environmental activism. In that interview, we mention Inger’s project to […]
We are happy to announce a brand new edition—the 4th and Final one—of our guide to The Library of Radiant Optimism For Let’s Re-Make the World collection of publications.
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“Brother, Can You Spare a Stack” at The Center For Book Arts, NY, January 18
We have work in an exhibition at The Center for Book Arts that opens January 18, 2013. It is called Brother, Can You Spare a Stack, and is organized by Yulia Tikhonova. We were asked to present material from our project The Library of Radiant Optimism […]
The following is our full essay from the Invisible Spaces of Parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future book which we posted about earlier this week.
Systems of Support for Families and Artists
By Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom
We are both artists. […]
“Is it possible at this stage to posit that parenthood is invisible because women are? Whether we like to admit it or not it is very much still ‘women and children’ and, in a way, the invisibility of women. From here on, it is the usual feminist rant. However, it […]
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 […]
We have often written and talked about our interest in the Living Structures of radical architect, Ken Isaacs. His Matrix system has inspired many aspects of our own home life. The system’s clean design and ease of reconfiguration is of both aesthetic and philosophical interest to us.
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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 […]
Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions
Before moving to the Mythological Quarter, we lived in the Midwestern United States. While there we worked with an amazing group of people, spread out across several states, on creative ways to rethink a region. That means looking critically at everything from how to run local utilities, understanding the food supply chain, […]
We have work in an exhibition at The Center for Book Arts that opens January 18, 2013. It is called Brother, Can You Spare a Stack, and is organized by Yulia Tikhonova. We were asked to present material from our project The Library of Radiant Optimism […]
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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