The curmudgeonly stinging nettle is a secret softy. Despite its prickly exterior, which if grabbed too quickly will leave red welts on your hands, it is actually full of super healthy vitamins and minerals. Vitamins A and C, potassium, iron and calcium are all smooshed into the mildly spiky plant. We recently used […]
HAVEN is an exhibition in a garden. It was curated by the gardener.
Friday night we stopped by the HAVEN opening at B-huset, an artist run building that houses artists’ studios and events. B-huset is an old school building and the studios are in the old classrooms. A community […]
Brett has an old style, heavy duty load carrying bicycle. Made from sturdy metal, the thing can tear down walls. Once, I stopped too quickly in front of him in the bike lane and he crashed into the back of my bike with his. It broke my fender. Pretty serious bike.
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We went back to our blackberry spot in the neighborhood today to harvest some berries, to freeze for the winter, and to get another blackberry bush to replace the one in our apartment that died. On our walk, we encountered a couple of modest neighborhood sustainability projects – a rain water cistern and an odd […]
Dyrk means ‘to cultivate’ or ‘cultivation’ in Danish. If you are gardening or growing plants, you would use the word dyrk in one conjugation or another. When I hear the word dyrk, I think about getting dirt under my fingernails, tomato plants, and worm bins. This is not too far away from the […]
A recent home improvement project here in the Mythological Quarter: Make your own lampshades. This was an easy project to do, but time consuming. So with more time than money, I made three paper mache lampshades for our apartment.
Mythological Quarter speaks with Copenhagen resident Inger Kærgaard about her environmental activism:
Danish biologist and teacher, Inger Kærgaard loves forests. Her love led her to develop two cultural exhibitions that not only educate the public about forests, but also about how they can help preserve and protect them. She is an […]
There is an abandoned lot near out house that is mostly used by graffiti writers and people looking for a quiet place to drink. We often stop on evening walks with Chai, because the field is also home to several wild blackberry bushes. It’s blackberry season in Copenhagen right now.
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A Mythological Quarter Book Review.
Published in 1984 by Sierra Club Books, The Book of Bamboo is a brief history of the plant and a catalog of its uses, which are many. David Farrelly, the author, writes about ‘the wood of the poor,’ in a poetic fashion designed to make people […]
Ken Isaacs wrote How to Build Your Own Living Structures in 1974. We built our own Living Structure for sleeping and storing clothes in 2010.
A Living Structure is an organizational system and an idea. Ken Isaacs was an architect and design educator. He is now retired.
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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.
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."
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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