I visited Republikken for the first time, like many other people in Copenhagen, to have a meeting. Republikken is the kind of space where people have meetings. It has a coffee bar, long wooden benches and counters with people working steadily on laptops. Several open workshops in the back on view where a […]
Happy New Year from the Mythological Quarter. We spent the first part of 2014 riding out the polar vortex in Southwest Florida. We are now back in Copenhagen and ready to bring you a new year of stories from our neighborhood, book reviews, information on projects we are working on, and […]
We moved the Mythological Quarter site onto Squarespace a few months ago. We have slowly grown frustrated with how limited it is and want the functionality and ability to customize things that WordPress offers. We are starting the process now. There might some glitches in our site for a couple of days.
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!
MQ friend Daniel Tucker did a residency at the Headland Center for the Arts in 2011. The residency was focused on the idea of Creative Ecologies and brought together artists and scholars who work in relationship to the environment, both urban and rural. While there, Tucker recorded interviews with 6 different […]
The MQ spent last week in London, the largest city in the EU. London’s population hits over 8 million, but what about its wildlife? We didn’t see much beyond pigeons in the central part of the city where we were staying, but our friends who live in South and East London say they see foxes […]
Here are some recent images from a walk through the Mythological Quarter. Masks leftover from Fastelavn and a schoolyard mural share similar colors, brightening the grey streets of Nørrebro.
BaNanna Park is the result of Mythological Quarter community members working together to save an empty lot from commercial development. The park sits on Nannasgade on a former brownfield site. It is close to several schools, kindergartens, daycare centers, and after school clubs, whose children regularly used the area before it was […]
The American naturalist, John Muir is known for his extensive writing on the natural world in books like The Yosemite, A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, and Our National Parks. His life and writing inspired conservation programs and the creation of several national parks in the United States, including Yosemite, Sequoia, and Mount Rainier, […]
The Cornell University Lab of Ornithology Maccaulay Library, formerly the Library of Natural Sounds, has an amazing online archive where you can hear recordings and watch videos of birds and wildlife from around the world. A library of natural sounds?! Yes! The digital birds and animals come into your home over […]
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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