I visited Republikken for the first time, like many other people in Copenhagen, to have a meeting. Republikken is the kind of space where people have meetings. It has a coffee bar, long wooden benches and counters with people working steadily on laptops. Several open workshops in the back on view where a […]
We love building things with our daughter Ada. Sometimes we use typical crafting materials and sometimes we use whatever we find around the house. Lately, it’s been cold outside and we have been indoors making a lot of things with her. She can learn about tactile materials with simple projects and power tool […]
This summer we were part of a deeply inspiring camp of artist, activists, and researchers called Case Pyhäjoki in Pyhäjoki, Finland. We’ve written about it here and here. The camp was focused on bringing people together to talk about a nuclear power plant proposed for this rural […]
We are happy to announce a brand new edition—the 4th and Final one—of our guide to The Library of Radiant Optimism For Let’s Re-Make the World collection of publications.
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The following is our full essay from the Invisible Spaces of Parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future book which we posted about earlier this week.
Systems of Support for Families and Artists
By Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom
We are both artists. […]
It seems that a house is not a home until you make your own bed. Our intrepid Vermont correspondent, Micah, has this to say about the phenomena:
Building our bed feels very Vermont. Bed building is almost a requisite for full Vermont citizenship. Everybody here is a woodworker or hobby woodworker. […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have often written and talked about our interest in the Living Structures of radical architect, Ken Isaacs. His Matrix system has inspired many aspects of our own home life. The system’s clean design and ease of reconfiguration is of both aesthetic and philosophical interest to us.
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Our daughter needed a kid sized bookshelf. So we made one that was just her height. We needed a bookshelf for our books, too. The simple design, a single board, on each shelf required bookends to hold the books in place. Brett found some pieces of wood on a […]
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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