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Solitary Bee Habitat: DYRK

By On 20 June, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Habitat, Living structure, Neighborhood

We have a deepening interest in making city habitat for various kinds of creatures. Lately, our activities have been focused on habitat for solitary bees, also known as mason bees.

Here is our newest construction made out of found and re-purposed materials. We built a mini-living structure […]

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Onsdag Billeder: Bird Houses + Icons of Nørrebro = Awesome!

By 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 […]

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Onsdag Billede: Particularly Perverse Idea of Nature

By On 30 May, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space, Wednesday picture

This is someone’s very brutal idea of “natural” habitat in the Mythological Quarter.

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City Bee Habitat: Berlin … and beyond

By On 22 April, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space

Our time in Berlin is over and we are excited to be back in Copenhagen. The city bee habitat research we were doing will inform bigger projects here where we live. We decided to put our little bee habitat out in Lichtenberg before we left. Here are some photos of where it now lives on […]

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City Bee Habitat

By On 19 April, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Environmental activism, Growing, Habitat, Homesteading

Worldwide, industrial agricultural uses the European honey bee to pollinate crops. Starting in 2006, there was a notable decline in honey bee populations, commonly referred to as “colony collapse disorder.” Researchers speculate that this may be due to stress or disease from the overuse of honey bees for pollinating crops.

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Habitat Update: Birds in Berlin

By On 17 April, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space

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, […]

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Friday Connect: Urban Habitat

By On 6 April, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Friday connect, Habitat, MISC

Urban habitat is an ongoing interest at the Mythological Quarter–from building habitat for specific creatures like bats or bees, to analyzing the cities we live in to understand the relationship the built environment has with wildlife.

We are currently on residency in Berlin, and trying to engage with habitat in this city during the short […]

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Friday Connect: Towering Habitat

By On 30 March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Friday connect, Habitat

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 […]

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Habitat Decline in the City & Country

By On 30 March, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space

A recent article in the Guardian discusses the decline in starling populations in England. According to the article, starlings migrate every year from Scandinavia to meet and mate in the English countryside, but because of the impact of factory farming on insect populations, starlings are disappearing at an alarming rate. The […]

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Onsdag: Billede fra kvarteret / Wednesday: Picture from the ‘hood

By On 14 March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Habitat, Neighborhood, Public space, Wednesday picture

There are several of these camouflaged bird houses in the square near our flat. We really like them and have been talking about making some of our own to put out. We think it is a good idea in general to provide habitat for animals in the city. Would be really great to see the […]

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