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BIRD HABITAT: FOUND vs. DESIGNED

By Bonnie On 20 December, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space

A big obsession of ours is urban habitat–animal and human made. We think about cities that are designed to accommodate both human and animal populations in a sustainable and thoughtful manner. We have made our own urban animal habitat projects, so we are interested when […]

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Artist Parents: Andrea Francke

By Bonnie On 19 December, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Artist parents, Exhibitions, Interviews

This post marks the first in a new series here at the MQ about Artist Parents and the ways in which they maintain a creative practice while balancing the labor of parenting. Each Artist Parent post will feature information about what the artist is working on + any comments that they have about […]

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Systems of Support for Families and Artists

By Bonnie On 13 December, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Books, Critical essays, Projects

The following is our full essay from the Invisible Spaces of Parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future book which we posted about earlier this week.

Systems of Support for Families and Artists
By Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom

We are both artists. […]

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Invisible Spaces of Parenthood

By Bonnie On 11 December, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Arts and culture, Books, Exhibitions, Projects

“Is it possible at this stage to posit that parenthood is invisible because women are? Whether we like to admit it or not it is very much still ‘women and children’ and, in a way, the invisibility of women. From here on, it is the usual feminist rant. However, it […]

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Vermont Looks Like Vermont: Homemade Bed Edition

By balder On 7 December, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Vermont correspondence

It seems that a house is not a home until you make your own bed. Our intrepid Vermont correspondent, Micah, has this to say about the phenomena:

Building our bed feels very Vermont. Bed building is almost a requisite for full Vermont citizenship. Everybody here is a woodworker or hobby woodworker. […]

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Adaptable Bird Nests

By Bonnie On 6 December, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat

MQ friend Sarah Ross sent us some urban habitat news–birds in Mexico City are using cigarette butts to line their nests. According to recent research, the birds (house sparrows, among other species) use the nicotine laced fibers of the discarded butts to repeal insects and pests from their nests.

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Making the Geologic Now

By Bonnie On 5 December, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Books

We are excited to share a new project that several friends of the MQ are involved with–Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life.  The book is edited by Jaime Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth and out with the Brooklyn based, Punctum Books, a print on demand […]

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Urban habitat: Sheltering a bird flock

By Bonnie On 3 December, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space

On a daily walk around the neighborhood, I noticed an urban habitat site that I hadn’t seen before.

A metal tower is playing host to this large bush. The tower’s primary purpose is holding up the street lighting architecture, but it’s secondary purpose has overtaken […]

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Onsdag billeder / Wednesday images

By Brett On 28 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Public space, Wednesday picture

This homemade bench appeared on our street a few months ago. We finally remembered to take a photo of it. It is quite chunky and out of place where is sits, but it seems like it is sturdy gets a lot of use. Several benches like this have appeared and disappeared from our […]

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Vinter kartoffel tårn / Winter potato tower

By Brett On 24 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Dirt, Kitchen, Projects

We really miss having a garden of our own and sometimes we raise potato starts in our apartment for no other reason than that they make us happy and keeps our intimate knowledge of how to do this close at hand.

I was cleaning out some old pots we had in […]

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    Spacing of Parental Values
    Antye Greie-Ripatti
    Zanny Begg
    Matthew Friday
    Andrea Francke
    Mythological Quarter
    Invisible Spaces of Parenthood

  • Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)

  • SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style

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    Read Brett's essay about the park.

    DANSK: Superkilen: Park med ekstrem borgerinddragelse!

    ENGLISH: Superkilen: Participatory Park Extreme!

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    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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    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

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    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.

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  • 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:

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    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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