Go! Sheepies!: Visit to the Kultivator Farm in Sweden
Like everything they do, the sign leading to the Kultivator Farm is infused with humor. Konst och grönt (Art and Vegetables), a play on the typical Swedish kiosk sign frukt och grönt (fruit and vegetables). “It’s nice to have a relative who works for the city. He just shows up with these signs. Doesn’t […]
If every building in Copenhagen had rain barrels like this one—that could be used for watering decorative plants—it would dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed to clean “waste water” as well as the amount of drinking water used in maintaining city gardens and flower beds. It would also help prepare us for more intense […]
Our daughter received a set of wooden vegetables for her birthday– a radish, a lemon, a mushroom, and a carrot. The sharp, clean lines and shiny, bright colors, are both like and unlike real vegetables–like because of accurate color portrayal but unlike because no vegetable, worth eating, is so […]
I recently returned from spending a week in Italy’s Tuscany region in a Medici-era villa in the Mugello Valley at the newly launched Corniolo Art Platform. I was there co-leading a residency program called Decompression Camp organized by Radical Intention and Valerio del Baglivo, young curators devoted to socially […]
We spent some time this morning gathering blackberries in a favorite spot of ours in an empty lot near our apartment. It seems as though the berries were late to ripen this year. However, they are in incredible abundance, which also seems different from last year. We spent a little less […]
“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 […]
We will begin work on new insect habitat when we get back to Denmark, and need help from folks in Copenhagen. We found these 3 varieties of pine cones in Fælledparken. We would love tips on where to find even more varieties in the city. We would also love […]
This collection of essays from the Post Carbon Institute (PCI), a think tank for creating a world beyond climate change, will change how you think about sustainability. The PCI is made up of thinkers from several different professions–economists, environmentalists, urban planners, farmers, activists, etc.–who are thinking beyond our current systems and […]
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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