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I came across this great poster while walking with my daughter through our neighborhood. It is for the 30th anniversary of Ungdomshuset [The Youth House], which was brutally evicted in 2007 from its Jagtvej 69 address. I really like the ghost building in this image … the place still haunts the […]
Onsdag Billede / Wednesday Image: Montessori-Living-Structure Bed
By Brett On 19 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Living structure, Projects, Wednesday picture
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 […]
We took Bonnie’s sister to Christiania, a squatted village in the center of Copenhagen, for lunch. We went for a walk afterward and saw this sign.
The Superkilen park near our house in Nørrebro is an experiment in public space design. One of the main features of the park is the Red Square, a huge open area made of concrete and red paint. Until recently, there were 2 spots of green in the red expanse-they […]
Wednesdays are happy days at our house as it is time to visit our local Københavns Fødevarefællesskab (our food coop) outlet here in Ydre Nørrebro and pick up our big bag of produce. The vegetables we have been getting are amazingly robust and make everything in the grocery stores look miserable […]
We are currently far from our home in Copenhagen, traveling around a part of the U.S. ravaged by globally warmed droughts with record breaking heat, and intense derecho (straight ahead) storms that eat houses, trees, people, and many other things in their path. The landscape, from Indiana to Tennessee, feels stressed out, thirsty, […]
Onsdag Billeder: Bird Houses + Icons of Nørrebro = Awesome!
By Brett On 6 June, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space, Wednesday picture
There is a lot of construction going on in our neighborhood. New Metro stops are being made and there is an enormous site where a park once sat, where a lot of the tunneling is being coordinated. Each of the construction sites around the development of the Metro has these giant […]
Onsdag Billede: Particularly Perverse Idea of Nature
By Brett On 30 May, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space, Wednesday picture
We have not been posting as much as we have wanted lately as we both have been busy with new, separate projects for a really nice art festival happening in Tingbjerg called Visit Tingbjerg. But, we have a bunch planned for the coming days. Here is the weekly photo from the […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
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.
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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