A selection of recently documented building bushes providing habitat to urban birds in Berlin and Copenhagen.
These images are part of our ongoing archive of urban habitat solutions for non-human participants in public life.
The Cornell University Lab of Ornithology Maccaulay Library,
formerly the Library of Natural Sounds, has an amazing online archive
where you can hear recordings and watch videos of birds and wildlife
from around the world. A library of natural sounds?! Yes! The digital
birds and animals come into your home […]
MQ friend Sarah Ross sent us some urban habitat news–birds in Mexico City are using cigarette butts to line their nests. According to recent research, the birds (house sparrows, among other species) use the nicotine laced fibers of the discarded butts to repeal insects and pests from their nests.
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We are starting back up with our Friday link love post. Here are some cool projects and sites from around the webs.
Happy City Birds from Projektland on Vimeo.
Local artist, Thomas Dambo, has been covering Copenhagen with colorful birdhouses (for hjemløse fuglerne) made from recycled materials in a […]
Onsdag Billeder: Bird Houses + Icons of Nørrebro = Awesome!
There is a lot of construction going on in our neighborhood. New Metro stops are being made and there is an enormous site where a park once sat, where a lot of the tunneling is being coordinated. Each of the construction sites around the development of the Metro has these giant […]
Onsdag Billede: Particularly Perverse Idea of Nature
Earlier during our stay in Berlin, we made a post about a giant vine growing on a building across the street from where we are living. The vine is home to a flock of birds. We have since identified the vine as a type of English Ivy. We haven’t figured out the birds, […]
“A lot” of new poster to download
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 […]
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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