I am working on a book project about artists who work with land, the environment, plants, growing, and ecology in their artwork. I have been talking to several different cultural practitioners about why they do what they do. Some work in groups and some work on their own. Some consider themselves healers, some prefer to […]
On a daily walk, I saw this tree being trimmed at the intersection of Tagensvej and Norré Alle here in Copenhagen. Regular maintenance is part of living with trees in city space. What would become ground cover in a forest, is processed with chain saws and moved quickly away on the university campus where […]
This viking is holding up a dragon ( hard to see in these photos).
He lives on Rådmansgade, holding up the dragon at the entrance to a school. The viking adds fantasy to our daily walks through the Mythological Quarter.
I came across this great poster while walking with my daughter through our neighborhood. It is for the 30th anniversary of Ungdomshuset [The Youth House], which was brutally evicted in 2007 from its Jagtvej 69 address. I really like the ghost building in this image … the place still haunts the […]
Onsdag Billede / Wednesday Image: Montessori-Living-Structure Bed
We recently reconfigured our family’s co-sleeping, lofted Living Structure (a la Ken Isaacs) into two separate beds. Pictured is our daughter’s new Montessori-Living-Structure lowrider! We will make a longer post in a couple of months about this bed after an article we have written about it and other things related to […]
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, […]
It is amazing that more people in Denmark commute to work than in all of the U.S. As everyone here knows, there are ridiculous amounts of abandoned bikes in this city. It is not remarkable to point this out. What is kind of stunning though is to see the guys who collect the […]
Bonnie, Ada and I were taking a long walk through the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin today and came across this stencil. We couldn’t agree with it more.
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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