Vermont Looks Like Vermont: Everyday Paths
By balder On 24 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Public space, Vermont correspondence
I walk — to the post office, to the food co-op, to work. Sometimes I just walk to walk. When I walk to walk, I enjoy following a nearby path up a smallish hill to a bench that overlooks downtown Montpelier.
None of these walks take me very far afield, nor do they […]
Friday Connect: The Trees Are Talking!
By Brett On 21 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Design, Forest, Friday connect, Public space
This Friday Connect takes a look at an assortment of projects that emphasize the interconnections we feel with trees. They each visualize or give voice to trees and what trees communicate with us.
The trees are already talking to one another. Professor Suzanne Simard has been doing research in […]
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 […]
On Sunday, the Røde Roses Kaffebar hosted a local honey tasting and autumn apple pressing event. The Røde Roses (Red Roses) coffee bar is an institution in the Mythological Quarter (our neighborhood). It was formerly a børnehaven (kindergarten) and is now, in addition to being a coffee […]
Christian Philipp Müller’s floating Swiss chard garden at Documenta 13. The project is described as:
Christian Philipp Müller’s project for dOCUMENTA (13), which consists of turning six barges from the Cold War into floating Swiss chard gardens. By means of the sixty different varieties of Swiss chard grown on them, the ferries are […]
This post is part of a series by artist, present day naturalist, and extended MQ neighbor, Micah Bornstein. Bornstein lives in the Northern New England state of Vermont, where he thinks about local food, local ecology, and the social structures around these things. On a bi-monthly basis, he will be contributing text and images, […]
Friday Connect: Our Environment
By Bonnie On 7 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Friday connect
This week’s Friday Connect is a mix of art, design, activism, and information from around the web focused on environmental awareness in cities and beyond.
Considering how the green elements of city spaces can be better designed leads to both more habitat for wildlife, but also more beneficial human habitat, in
I recently returned from spending a week in Italy’s Tuscany region in a Medici-era villa in the Mugello Valley at the newly launched Corniolo Art Platform. I was there co-leading a residency program called Decompression Camp organized by Radical Intention and Valerio del Baglivo, young curators devoted to socially […]
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.
Where does food come from when you live in the city?
Walking around Copenhagen, there are lots of small kiosk style stores (grønthandler) with fruit and vegetable stands lining their entry ways. On any city street you can find the sidewalk compromised with piles of […]
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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