On the edge of Spring we took a tour to the edge of the city to celebrate. We visited Copenhagen’s second largest park–Valby Park (Valby Parken), reclaimed from an old landfill 75 years ago. This year the sprawling park is celebrating its diamond anniversary with events planned throughout the year, much of […]
We had a family adventure today in the Bispebjerg neighborhood of Copenhagen. We were on the hunt for a playground shaped like a man, and a sculpture of a giant owl. We had heard about both from a friend, and all we had was a sketchy hand drawn map. Of course we looked […]
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
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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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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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