New Garden City is an exhibition curated and organized by Art + Inovation Hub (Majken Overgaard and Pernille Skov) with Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, exploring the agricultural past of a Copenhagen suburb. Currently on display at Traneudstillingen (Gentofte Hovedbibliotek, Ahlmanns Allé 6, DK-2900 Hellerup, Denmark) in Gentofte until […]
We are continuing to upload pages from this really great book illustrating the lives of honey bees. Here are five more pages.
Check more out on our tumblr page! We will be posting every page from this book. The illustrations are really wonderful.
The title of this post is the Danish, English and Hungarian onomatopoeic spellings of the sounds of bees. Our good friend Marc Fischer—AKA Public Collectors—gave this fantastic book about the lifecycle of honey bees to our daughter. He picked it out because of the really rich illustrations throughout the book by illustrator […]
On Sunday, the Røde Roses Kaffebar hosted a local honey tasting and autumn apple pressing event. The Røde Roses (Red Roses) coffee bar is an institution in the Mythological Quarter (our neighborhood). It was formerly a børnehaven (kindergarten) and is now, in addition to being a coffee […]
Our time in Berlin is over and we are excited to be back in Copenhagen. The city bee habitat research we were doing will inform bigger projects here where we live. We decided to put our little bee habitat out in Lichtenberg before we left. Here are some photos of where it now lives on […]
City Bee Habitat
Worldwide, industrial agricultural uses the European honey bee to pollinate crops. Starting in 2006, there was a notable decline in honey bee populations, commonly referred to as “colony collapse disorder.” Researchers speculate that this may be due to stress or disease from the overuse of honey bees for pollinating crops.
Last week we saw two great exhibitions dealing with the relationship between culture and nature: Animismus at Haus der Kulturen der Velt and Biopolis:Wild Berlin at the Museum für Naturkunde.
Biopolis: Wild Berlin purports to “merge the notion of biodiversity and metropolis” focusing on wildlife […]
This Friday’s link love focuses on bees. We’ve found several bee related items around the web, a few of them local to Copenhagen.
Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary, friend and artist Juan Willam Chavez’s proposal for an urban bee sanctuary on a large lot in the city of St. Louis. The lot was formerly home […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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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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