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When children grow out of needing their pacifiers, but are reluctant to give the habit up all together, there is a lovely, local tradition that creates a ritual to solve the problem. The suttetræ , or pacifier tree, where children take their old binkies and tie them up as an offering to mark their transition […]
We posted about the city of Copenhagen’s project to plant 100, 000 trees a while back. On a recent walk in our Nørrebro neighborhood, we found that a new tree had been planted.
Happy New Year!
Happy holidays from the Mythological Quarter. We would like to thank you all for following along here during 2012. We look forward to sharing more local happenings, art, and ecology news, as well as entries into our new Artist Parents series over 2013. We have a lot planned including a report on the […]
Happy holidays from the Mythological Quarter. We would like to thank you all for following along here during 2012. We look forward to sharing more local happenings, art, and ecology news, as well as entries into our new Artist Parents series over 2013. We have a lot planned including a report on the […]
Mountains and more mountains
By Bonnie On 20 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Environmental activism, Vermont correspondence
Two drawings of mountains from our friend Micah Bornstein.
Micah and I have an ongoing letter correspondence about place. We discuss what it means to find one landscape in another? For example, seeing a mountain in a child’s toy, a pile of laundry, or a […]
We went on a walk in Bellahøj a few weekends ago. While there, we found a tiny park with a monument to Gandhi, the Indian anti-colonial activist. In Gandhi Park, we also found an installation of newly planted trees. These trees were part of the 100,000 Trær plan that […]
Friday Connect: The Trees Are Talking!
By Brett On 21 September, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Design, Forest, Friday connect, Public space
This Friday Connect takes a look at an assortment of projects that emphasize the interconnections we feel with trees. They each visualize or give voice to trees and what trees communicate with us.
The trees are already talking to one another. Professor Suzanne Simard has been doing research in […]
We are currently far from our home in Copenhagen, traveling around a part of the U.S. ravaged by globally warmed droughts with record breaking heat, and intense derecho (straight ahead) storms that eat houses, trees, people, and many other things in their path. The landscape, from Indiana to Tennessee, feels stressed out, thirsty, […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
Read Brett's essay about the park.
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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.
BOOK: Deep Routes
Bonnie co-edited this collection of essays that reflect on who gets to define a region and what the struggles are in relation to being in a place and demanding social justice across many issues and terrains.
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."
Culture Breakers
One of many books we collected that deeply inspire us. Get the PDF of the book.
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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