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 […]
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 […]
Skovene – i din lomme Opening
By Bonnie On 20 January, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Exhibitions
On Friday, we went to the Round Tower for the opening of the Skovene-i din lomme/Forests-in your pocket, the Forest Festival at Copenhagen’s Round Tower. Skovene-i din lomme is an exhibition focused on raising awareness about global forest ecology through beautiful forest images […]
Forests in your pocket
By Bonnie On 16 January, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Exhibitions, Forest, Projects
Inger Kærgaard wants you to go take a hike…in the forest, at least.
We interviewed Inger in 2011 and have since become friends with this energetic, charming, and creative person, who is totally committed to environmental activism. In that interview, we mention Inger’s project to […]
We are happy to announce a brand new edition—the 4th and Final one—of our guide to The Library of Radiant Optimism For Let’s Re-Make the World collection of publications.
[Download PDF – either control/right click and save file or wait for it to load in browser after […]
“Brother, Can You Spare a Stack” at The Center For Book Arts, NY, January 18
By Brett On 10 January, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Books, Exhibitions, Our Art Work, Projects
We have work in an exhibition at The Center for Book Arts that opens January 18, 2013. It is called Brother, Can You Spare a Stack, and is organized by Yulia Tikhonova. We were asked to present material from our project The Library of Radiant Optimism […]
Our daughter received a set of wooden vegetables for her birthday– a radish, a lemon, a mushroom, and a carrot. The sharp, clean lines and shiny, bright colors, are both like and unlike real vegetables–like because of accurate color portrayal but unlike because no vegetable, worth eating, is so […]
We posted about the city of Copenhagen’s project to plant 100, 000 trees a while back. On a recent walk in our Nørrebro neighborhood, we found that a new tree had been planted.
Happy New Year!
Happy holidays from the Mythological Quarter. We would like to thank you all for following along here during 2012. We look forward to sharing more local happenings, art, and ecology news, as well as entries into our new Artist Parents series over 2013. We have a lot planned including a report on the […]
Happy holidays from the Mythological Quarter. We would like to thank you all for following along here during 2012. We look forward to sharing more local happenings, art, and ecology news, as well as entries into our new Artist Parents series over 2013. We have a lot planned including a report on the […]
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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