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Habitat in the City

By balder On 2 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Habitat, Neighborhood

One of our ongoing obsessions here in the Mythological Quarter is how wildlife interacts with the built environment. We made a public art project last summer with the city of Urbana, IL about creating habitats for bats in the city.

Animals are often pushed out by human development. They also adapt […]

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Passive herb watering

By balder On 1 August, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Growing, Homesteading

Indoor plants require attention. You are the weather system. Sadly, I often forget to water the plants I am trying to grow indoors. I have created many an artificial drought from inattention. I get busy with my daily life and soon I have a sad, little wilted plant that is past the point of saving.

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Modest blackberry harvest

By balder On 30 July, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Homesteading

It is possible to grow more edible things indoors than the odd basil plant on your window sill.
For example, blackberries!

When we first moved to Copenhagen, we lived near a part of the city where blackberry bushes grow on the side of the road. Before we moved […]

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Micro-habitats in Copenhagen, New York, and Chicago

By Brett On · 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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Giving Harbor (Part 2 of 3)

By Brett On · 2 Comments · In Arts and culture, Public space

Giving Harbor continued.See Part 1.


A defaced Konservative Folkeparti [Conservative Peoples’ Party] poster across from the sign — the party was summarily trounced in the elections.

We learned later that the Conservative Peoples’ Party was having their election night party at the Marriott hotel. Permission for putting […]

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Giving Harbor (Part 3 of 3)

By Brett On · 2 Comments · In Arts and culture, Public space

This is the 3rd and final part of the report back on Giving Harbor.PART 1
PART 2

CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO GET FULL VIEW AND LARGER SIZE.


The first installment of Giving Harbor was mounted on wooden moorings […]

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Book Review: Cultural Practices within and Across

By Bonnie On · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Book reviews

Cultural Practices within and Across (2010) answers the question, ‘What is deglobalisation?’

Cultural Practices within and Across (2010) is a compendium of European trans-local cultural production; a useful handbook for looking at ‘the role of culture in a society which faces a number of economic, social, […]

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Godt nytår!

By Brett On · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood

Happy New Year from all of us here in the heart of the Mythological Quarter in Ydre Nørrebro!
– Bonnie, Ada and Brett


Mural with a map and guide to the Mythological Quarter

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Vinter kartoffel tårn / Winter potato tower

By Brett On · Leave a Comment · In Design, Dirt, Kitchen, Projects

We really miss having a garden of our own and sometimes we raise potato starts in our apartment for no other reason than that they make us happy and keeps our intimate knowledge of how to do this close at hand.

I was cleaning out some old pots we had in the apartment and found […]

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“Brother, Can You Spare a Stack” at The Center For Book Arts, NY, January 18

By Brett On · 1 Comment · In Arts and culture, Books, Exhibitions, Projects

We have work in an exhibition at The Center for Book Arts that opens January 18, 2013. It is called Brother, Can You Spare a Stack, and is organized by Yulia Tikhonova. We were asked to present material from our project The Library of Radiant Optimism […]

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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.

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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


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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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