A selection of recently documented building bushes providing habitat to urban birds in Berlin and Copenhagen.
These images are part of our ongoing archive of urban habitat solutions for non-human participants in public life.
Eunseon Park and Junho Kim part of the artist collective Listen to the City—from Seoul, Korea—recently gave a presentation about their work at the Nørrebro art space, Itinerant Sends for Itinerant. The pair is part of the larger Listen to the City group–artists, designers and […]
BIRD HABITAT: FOUND vs. DESIGNED
A big obsession of ours is urban habitat–animal and human made. We think about cities that are designed to accommodate both human and animal populations in a sustainable and thoughtful manner. We have made our own urban animal habitat projects, so we are interested when […]
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 […]
Walking around Copenhagen the other day, we came across these paving stones. Four different ways to re-imagine paved streets. If there has to be pavement then something like these options, are, I think, a more desirable solution. Some environmental positives about paving stones: more plant life can come through, less heat […]
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There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
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There are 10 posters in the series Metropolitan Habitat. I will be posting each one as a free download over the next 10 days to celebrate the opening of Lupification, or the Divide.
I am part of a new exhibition at Clark College’s Archer Gallery in Vancouver, Washington. The show, titled Lupification, or the Divide, is curated by Blake Shell. Shell writes, “The artists in this exhibition approach humanity through its connection to or separation from the natural world. Each presents a […]
What is a better way to calm down traffic on a busy street? Cities use speed bumps or concrete stanchions. If neighbors take traffic into their own hands, they are likely to get more creative.
For example, Portland, Oregon’s City Repair, is famous for their colorfully painted traffic calming […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
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Video interview:
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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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."
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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