House Plants of the Mythological Quarter Part 2

By On 7 March, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Growing, Neighborhood

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.

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Creative Ecologies from Daniel Tucker

By On 4 March, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In MISC

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 […]

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Precarious Bird House, Aarhus

By On 3 March, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat, Public space

This is a funny solution for adding bird housing to a building—something we here at the MQ advocate very strongly for. It gives one all kinds of ideas of how to do a better job of securing a bird house to a window. It doesn’t look like any birds were using this house, and this […]

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OPI – Other Peoples’ Ikea: #2 Bigger Desk

By On 28 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Public space, Resilience

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 […]

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OPI – Other Peoples’ Ikea: #1 Banana Peel Drying Rack

By On 27 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Kitchen, Projects

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 […]

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Birds of the Serpentine

By On 24 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In MISC

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 […]

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Nørrebro color theory

By On 21 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In MISC

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.

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Listen to the City and destruction of rivers in South Korea.

By On 19 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Books, Environmental activism

Eunseon Park and Junho Kim part of the artist collective Listen to the City—from Seoul, Korea—recently gave a presentation about their work at the Nørrebro art space, Itinerant Sends for Itinerant. The pair is part of the larger Listen to the City group–artists, designers and […]

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House plants of the Mythological Quarter

By On 16 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Growing, Neighborhood

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 […]

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Even more pages from Züm Züm

By On 14 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Bees, Books

We are continuing to upload pages from this really great book illustrating the lives of honey bees. Here are five more pages.

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