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, […]
This planter box, with the remains of an herb garden in it, was hanging over the sad little water way that runs through the shopping district of central Aarhus.
Check more out on our tumblr page! We will be posting every page from this book. The illustrations are really wonderful.
On a daily walk, I saw this tree being trimmed at the intersection of Tagensvej and Norré Alle here in Copenhagen. Regular maintenance is part of living with trees in city space. What would become ground cover in a forest, is processed with chain saws and moved quickly away on the university campus where […]
I have been working on making some illustrative text around the statement Power Down. Today, I am sharing some of the test drawings I have been making. I am playing with including designs in the letters. The statement Power Down has been bouncing around our heads for some
time. We have been trying […]
The title of this post is the Danish, English and Hungarian onomatopoeic spellings of the sounds of bees. Our good friend Marc Fischer—AKA Public Collectors—gave this fantastic book about the lifecycle of honey bees to our daughter. He picked it out because of the really rich illustrations throughout the book by illustrator […]
Survival Strategies for Cultural Workers, The Showroom, London
By Brett On 28 January, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Artist parents, Arts and culture, Living structure
Survival Strategies was initiated by Andrea Francke and The Showroom during Invisible spaces of parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future – a Communal Knowledge project at The Showroom in 2012
The Survival Strategies meetings are informal open sessions for cultural workers to meet and exchange on the challenges they […]
On a recent walk through Nørrebro, Brett and Ada stopped in to Assitens Kirkegård
as the afternoon light was fading. This church yard is actually one of
the nicest places in the city for walking quietly through the trees.
On a recent walk through Nørrebro, Brett and Ada stopped in to Assitens Kirkegård as the afternoon light was fading. This church yard is actually one of the nicest places in the city for walking quietly through the trees.
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
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.
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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