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 […]
Models for a new society.
Unleash children’s joy, fantasy, and creativity–then they are free, social, and curious children.” – Palle Nielsen
Living in Copenhagen now, there are a lot of options for children. Most neighborhoods have imaginative playgrounds with interactive play areas based on themes like a Bermuda Triangle shipwreck, […]
Pumpkin’s Giving
Earlier this year in June, we had the honor of visiting the Kultivator farm in rural Sweden. The artist group lives on an organic dairy farm on the island of Öland where they run a residency and raise their children, along with several different types of animals. While we were visiting, […]
Urban Ecology in Northern Ireland
I recently returned from a trip to Derry, Northern Ireland where I worked with artist in residence Andrea Francke at the Centre for Contemporary Art on a workshop about urban ecology, foraging, map making and orienting yourself to a place.
Brett and I first worked […]
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 […]
Images of Farming
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. Founding member Wapke Feenstra, recently sent the MQ the group’s new book, Images of […]
Onsdag Billede / Wednesday Image: Montessori-Living-Structure Bed
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 […]
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 […]
Vermont Looks Like Vermont
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 […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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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.
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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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."
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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