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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Svensk sojabønner / Swedish soybeans
This summer we grew soybeans at Nørrebro’s rooftop garden, DYRK. They were heirloom Swedish soy beans (also known as Glycine Max) named Fiskeby III (there are numerous varieties of Fiskeby) from a seed archive in Russia called the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (designated […]
Video Interview with Seed Broadcast
On a recent trip to the US, we met up with artist and food sovereignty activist, Jeanette Hart-Mann. In this video interview, we talk to her about her work with the Seed Broadcast project, a mobile project that is part seed library and part seed-saving-story-collecting machine-recording the stories of seed saving, […]
“We have two types of puppet shows: good ones and bad ones, but all of them are for good and against evil.” – Peter Schumann
Hidden in the hills of the Northeast Kingdom, a part of the state of Vermont, is an almost 50 year old, anarchist puppet theater, called Bread […]
Interview: Nance Klehm
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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Temporary Travel Office in the Riparian City
“The Doan Brook Watershed is a Riparian City, a living territory where a flowing stream meets the land.”
The Doan Brook Watershed can be found coursing through Cleveland, Ohio in the middle of the United States. The water from the Doan Brook runs into Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes. The
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 […]
Our friend, Ruth Kaaserer, makes thoughtful, meditative, documentary films. She agreed to share her recent film Commnunity Gardens (2010) here. The film follows the seasons in several of New York City’s community gardens. You meet the gardeners and hear their thoughts about growing in the city through the ambient soundtrack. Sounds of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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