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Nettles from the school garden

By Bonnie On 24 August, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Growing, Kitchen, Neighborhood

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 […]

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Haven, an art garden event

By Bonnie On 22 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Design, Growing, Neighborhood

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 […]

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Hacking the load cycle.

By Bonnie On 18 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Living structure

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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Every building in the hood needs one of these…

By Brett On 16 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Growing, Neighborhood

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 […]

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Dyrk! Growing in Nørrebro

By Bonnie On 14 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Neighborhood

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 […]

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Paper Lamp Party

By Bonnie On 12 August, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Design, Homesteading

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.


To make the lampshades for our hanging light […]

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Where did the forest go? Interview with Inger Kærgaard

By Bonnie On 10 August, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Interviews

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 […]

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Blackberry Foraging

By Bonnie On 7 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Neighborhood

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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Book Review-The Book of Bamboo

By balder On 6 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Book reviews, Growing

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 […]

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Living Structure making the rounds.

By balder On 3 August, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Design, Living structure

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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  • SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style

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    Read Brett's essay about the park.

    DANSK: Superkilen: Park med ekstrem borgerinddragelse!

    ENGLISH: Superkilen: Participatory Park Extreme!

  • Download our guide:

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    This is our guide to how-to books from the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. Click to get the download page.

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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.

    Get a copy of the book!


  • 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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    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.
    • Read our review of the book.
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