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 […]
On a recent walk through Nørrebro, Brett and Ada stopped in to Assitens Kirkegård
as the afternoon light was fading. This church yard is actually one of
the nicest places in the city for walking quietly through the trees.
On a recent walk through Nørrebro, Brett and Ada stopped in to Assitens Kirkegård as the afternoon light was fading. This church yard is actually one of the nicest places in the city for walking quietly through the trees.
Skovene – i din lomme Opening
On Friday, we went to the Round Tower for the opening of the Skovene-i din lomme/Forests-in your pocket, the Forest Festival at Copenhagen’s Round Tower. Skovene-i din lomme is an exhibition focused on raising awareness about global forest ecology through beautiful forest images […]
Forests in your pocket
Inger Kærgaard wants you to go take a hike…in the forest, at least.
We interviewed Inger in 2011 and have since become friends with this energetic, charming, and creative person, who is totally committed to environmental activism. In that interview, we mention Inger’s project to […]
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 […]
Onsdag billede/Wednesday Picture
Walking past a small print shop in Vesterbro, we saw this window used as a greenhouse to grow tomatoes. The plants were wild, pressed against the glass and stretching out in all directions. There may have been more plants than just tomatoes but it was hard discern what was what among […]
This viking is holding up a dragon ( hard to see in these photos).
He lives on Rådmansgade, holding up the dragon at the entrance to a school. The viking adds fantasy to our daily walks through the Mythological Quarter.
We went on a walk in Bellahøj a few weekends ago. While there, we found a tiny park with a monument to Gandhi, the Indian anti-colonial activist. In Gandhi Park, we also found an installation of newly planted trees. These trees were part of the 100,000 Trær plan that […]
The Superkilen park near our house in Nørrebro is an experiment in public space design. One of the main features of the park is the Red Square, a huge open area made of concrete and red paint. Until recently, there were 2 spots of green in the red expanse-they […]
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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