This week’s tofu pressing includes dandelion greens from the neighborhood, Lichtenberg, we are staying in here in Berlin, and ginger. We have been looking for ways to get a better sense of where we are in relation to the local ecology and how people use their city spaces. Gathering dandelions is a good […]
This is the Garden of Exile.
It stands outside the Jewish Museum Berlin. The garden represents the experience of European Jewish exiles, driven from their home during World War II. Standing in between the rows of forty-nine concrete container columns is a claustrophobic, disorienting experience, where you […]
Greg Sholette: Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses, at The Queens Museum
Greg Sholette added fifteen islands to the amazing scale model of New York that is housed at the Queens Museum. He asked fifteen people to propose islands. I was one of the people asked. I asked Greg to construct a […]
A recent article in the Guardian discusses the decline in starling populations in England. According to the article, starlings migrate every year from Scandinavia to meet and mate in the English countryside, but because of the impact of factory farming on insect populations, starlings are disappearing at an alarming rate. The […]
We are feeling a bit disconnected as we are not in Copenhagen for March and April, but are in Berlin. We are having a hard time orientating ourselves to the local ecology and understanding how this place works. This kind of awareness takes a really long time to develop (i.e. feeling and intuiting rather than […]
This post (meandering online on Saturday) contains projects that create meaning by moving through space, either with walks, drawings, or projects that document these types of activities. One way to develop a relationship to the place you live in is to physically move through that place–putting one foot in front of another creates […]
We are volunteering at the Skolehaver [school/teaching garden] in our neighborhood because we support what they are doing and want our daughter to one day be able to join the great programs there. We are also hopeful of getting access to a small plot there to raise our own vegetables and to do […]
Here is this weekend’s experiment with tofu. We used both lime and lemon juice as the coagulant to make the soy milk curdle.
We are very happy that spring is upon us and couldn’t resist using a couple of flower pots to both shape and press the tofu. First we put […]
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. –Wendell Berry
Looking at soil, the basis of plant life, and much of our food system is an important part of thinking ecologically. Today’s link post points to some soil based projects that we have come across.
Denmark has 68 […]
Onsdag: Billede fra kvarteret / Wednesday: Picture from the ‘hood
By Brett On 14 March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space, Wednesday picture
There are several of these camouflaged bird houses in the square near our flat. We really like them and have been talking about making some of our own to put out. We think it is a good idea in general to provide habitat for animals in the city. Would be really great to see 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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