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Søger Lejlighed #5

By On 9 September, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Public space

Fall is hitting Copenhagen and we are interested to see if the amount of apartment hunting signs around the neighborhood slows down. One local MQ commenter suggests that the flurry of signs appearing in the city during the summer months could be because of the shortage of housing for students. This may be one cause, […]

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Søger Lejlighed #4

By On 25 July, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Neighborhood, Public space

Warm weather has brought a flurry of Søger Bolig [Seeking Apartment] fliers to the streets of our quarter. This activity is a complicated process that makes you think of dating services that brings complete strangers together in a semi-public/private manner. We hope to continue documenting these fliers and will work to understand some […]

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Søger Lejlighed #3

By On 8 July, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood

I found a new poster in the neighborhood this week to add to the Søger Lejlighed (apartment hunting series). This one was a great find because of the personal photograph of the people searching + a nice drawing + a heartfelt letter. This flyer is one of my favorites […]

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Wednesday Picture: The Color Yellow

By On 15 May, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Wednesday picture

On Sunday we went out to explore the Bispebjerg Bakke park, a huge field near our apartment in Ydre Nørrebro–not to be confused with the extravagantly designed apartment complex of the same name.  The field runs down in front of the Bispebjerg Hospital and is also home to Copenhagen’s Skolehaver, a […]

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Queer Power-Nørrebro street art

By On 6 May, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Daily Photo

When you have a small child you often take long aimless walks around your neighborhood (and maybe even when you don’t have a small child in your life). For me, these walks are a great time to soak up the little neighborhood nuances that shape the place we call home.

Lately, I have been […]

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Our neighbors, the trees

By On 30 March, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood

Last week, city workers came around the neighborhood and trimmed branches from the trees on Balders Plads in the Mythological Quarter. The images below are the remnants of their efforts. Living with trees, plants, and wildlife in city spaces requires careful management. Even the smallest bits of wildness in the urban landscape are carefully maintained. […]

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House plants of the Mythological Quarter

By On 16 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Growing, Neighborhood

Here are some new drawings of house plants in our neighborhood. It has been trial and error figuring out what grows and what doesn’t in our apartment. We don’t get much light, so we try different things, like grow lights,  and observing what others have been able to grow in the apartments surrounding ours. House […]

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Onsdag billeder / Wednesday images

By On 28 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Neighborhood, Public space, Wednesday picture

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 […]

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Svensk sojabønner / Swedish soybeans

By On 16 October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Environmental activism, Growing, Neighborhood, Sojabønner

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 […]

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Byhaven 2200 – Kitchen garden in Nørrebro

By On 10 October, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Growing, Neighborhood

It is harvest time in gardens around the world. In Nørrebro, we have several neighborhood gardens, from DYRK Nørrebro to Den Fælleskøkkenhave (the logo of which is pictured above). This June we got a new garden–Byhaven 2200 [City Garden 2200]. It sits at the corner […]

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