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On a daily walk, I saw this tree being trimmed at the intersection of Tagensvej and Norré Alle here in Copenhagen. Regular maintenance is part of living with trees in city space. What would become ground cover in a forest, is processed with chain saws and moved quickly away on the university campus where […]
This homemade bench appeared on our street a few months ago. We finally remembered to take a photo of it. It is quite chunky and out of place where is sits, but it seems like it is sturdy gets a lot of use. Several benches like this have appeared and disappeared from our […]
Vermont Looks Like Vermont Series of Posts.
User Design : Examples of public interventions by anonymous parties. These moments of visual disruption appeal to me.
P(H), an altered parking kiosk.
Green Mountain Mural. Seemingly unintentional painting.
A dumpster weather vane.
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Vermont Looks Like Vermont: Everyday Paths
By balder On 24 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Public space, Vermont correspondence
I walk — to the post office, to the food co-op, to work. Sometimes I just walk to walk. When I walk to walk, I enjoy following a nearby path up a smallish hill to a bench that overlooks downtown Montpelier.
None of these walks take me very far afield, nor do they […]
We spent some time this morning gathering blackberries in a favorite spot of ours in an empty lot near our apartment. It seems as though the berries were late to ripen this year. However, they are in incredible abundance, which also seems different from last year. We spent a little less […]
Interview: Nance Klehm
By Bonnie On 31 July, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Environmental activism, Interviews, Resilience
Mythological Quarter met up with our dear old friend Nance Klehm on a recent trip to Chicago. Nance, as usual, is up to some exciting new work. In this interview, I talked to Nance about environmentalism, the collapse of the oil economy, and her work with her new business, Social Ecologies.
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Onsdag Billeder: Bird Houses + Icons of Nørrebro = Awesome!
By Brett On 6 June, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space, Wednesday picture
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 […]
This week’s tofu pressing includes dandelion greens from the neighborhood, Lichtenberg, we are staying in here in Berlin, and ginger. We have been looking for ways to get a better sense of where we are in relation to the local ecology and how people use their city spaces. Gathering dandelions is a good […]
Greg Sholette: Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses, at The Queens Museum
Greg Sholette added fifteen islands to the amazing scale model of New York that is housed at the Queens Museum. He asked fifteen people to propose islands. I was one of the people asked. I asked Greg to construct a […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
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.
BOOK: Deep Routes
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.
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."
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.
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