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Bat Sounds

By Bonnie On 10 October, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Habitat, Neighborhood

We love bats over here at the Mythological Quarter. With over 1,100 species worldwide, nature’s only flying mammal controls insect populations and plays an important role in pollinating several different kinds of plants. Recently, we have been using a friend’s Pettersson ultrasound detector to listen to the sounds of bats echo […]

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Book Review: Toolbox for Sustainable City Living

By Bonnie On 6 October, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Book reviews

In 2000, Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew along with several others started the Rhizome Collective in an old warehouse in Austin, TX. A consensus based collective, the group worked to rebuild the warehouse and experiment with what they were calling “sustainable city living.” The group came together from several different activist movements, but […]

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Micro-habitats in Copenhagen, New York, and Chicago

By Brett On 28 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Habitat

We have been gathering a bunch of disparate photos for a while, and have not had a good excuse to group them together until now. We hope to regularly post images of micro-habitats to call attention to what is around us and what we can build and support in the city. These situations inspire us […]

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Interview: Kultivator at alt_cph

By Bonnie On 23 September, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Arts and culture, Interviews

Kultivator is a collective of people living and working in rural Sweden on a farm. They are a family-sisters, husbands, children. They are also artists. Their art practice is centered on art and agriculture. In fact, they even staged a wedding between art and agriculture in 2010. Last weekend […]

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Lexicon of Sustainabilty

By Bonnie On 21 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture

We found this website, the Lexicon of Sustainabilty which is seeking to use cultural production to share ideas for structuring the world in a more environmentally friendly way. So, is it working?

The project seems to be funded in a large part by Google. Not sure how to feel […]

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“A lot” of new poster to download

By Bonnie On 13 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Habitat, Neighborhood, Our Art Work

Here in Copenhagen, this week marks the opening of alt_CPH 11 Encounters, the alternative art fair. The fair takes place at Fabrikken for Kunst og Design (Factory of Art and Design) and includes artists from the U.S. and Nordic countries. The Mythological Quarter is excited to be participating.

Anja Franke  and […]

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Fødevarefællesskab

By Bonnie On 5 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Neighborhood

Fødevarefællesskab literally translates into “Food Community.” It is, in fact, a food co-op. Basically, a buying club style co-op. Every week members can pick up a huge bag of produce fresh from Danish farms. We joined the Fødevarefællesskab at the Nørrebro location. Joining means that you pay 100DKK/week and volunteer 3 hours per […]

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Calm the traffic

By Bonnie On 3 September, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Growing, Neighborhood

What is a better way to calm down traffic on a busy street? Cities use speed bumps or concrete stanchions. If neighbors take traffic into their own hands, they are likely to get more creative.

For example, Portland, Oregon’s City Repair, is famous for their colorfully painted traffic calming […]

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Living Structure as bar

By Bonnie On 29 August, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Design, Living structure

We have written before about using the Ken Isaacs designed Living Structures system in our home.  The simple grid based system can be used as a starting point for necessary things from shelving to the construction of whole houses. Currently, a Living Structure inspired system is our bed/shelving, providing a more […]

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Pepperz

By Bonnie On 28 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Homesteading

The first time we visited Dyrk Nørrebro, the local urban garden on the roof of a school, one of the gardeners gave us a pepper plant. The little plant was wilty and all of the peppers were green. It had been growing since April with not a single ripe pepper. This […]

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    DANSK: Superkilen: Park med ekstrem borgerinddragelse!

    ENGLISH: Superkilen: Participatory Park Extreme!

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  • Video interview:

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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...

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  • 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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