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Onsdag billede/Wednesday Picture
By Bonnie On 21 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Dirt, Growing, Homesteading, MISC, Wednesday picture
Walking past a small print shop in Vesterbro, we saw this window used as a greenhouse to grow tomatoes. The plants were wild, pressed against the glass and stretching out in all directions. There may have been more plants than just tomatoes but it was hard discern what was what among […]
Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions
By Bonnie On 23 June, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, MISC, Projects
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, […]
I am getting better at making tofu and was able to get two blocks of tofu out of 3 liters of soy milk today. Today’s pressing was with peppers and olives. These are becoming more and more like drawings and I am looking forward to more experiments along these lines soon as well […]
Urban habitat is an ongoing interest at the Mythological Quarter–from building habitat for specific creatures like bats or bees, to analyzing the cities we live in to understand the relationship the built environment has with wildlife.
We are currently on residency in Berlin, and trying to engage with habitat in this city during the short […]
This week we have gotten quite a bit of love from around the Net.
Here are links to two posts about the Mythological Quarter:
Interview by Bryce Dwyer on Chicago’s Bad at Sports art blog.
Justseeds Mary Tremonte gives us a shout out on the Justseeds blog, a great source for […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
Read Brett's essay about the park.
Download our guide:
This is our guide to how-to books from the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. Click to get the download page.
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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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