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 […]
The Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009 exhibition took place at the Barbican Art Gallery in London from 19 June – 18 October 2009. We snagged a copy of the exhibition catalog while on a recent trip to Berlin.
The exhibition […]
Greg Sholette: Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses, at The Queens Museum
Greg Sholette added fifteen islands to the amazing scale model of New York that is housed at the Queens Museum. He asked fifteen people to propose islands. I was one of the people asked. I asked Greg to construct a […]
These cold and snowy winter days are good for home projects. Today, we finished a new coat rack made from re-purposed jars.
Our hallway coat rack used to be a simple white board with metal hooks. Totally ugly and only semi functional. We would pile coats, dog leashes, bike helmets, grocery […]
If you walk around our neighborhood at night, particularly during winter when it gets dark way too early, you will notice that in many apartments there are dramatic lamps hanging in the center of most rooms. Danes love beautiful, eccentric lamps. They seem to be an essential component in dealing with the long dark, grey […]
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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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We have been following the Occupy Wall Street movement from the Mythological Quarter here in Copenhagen as it has spread around the world. It has been an amazingly heartening experience to see Occupy actions springing up in towns and cities globally as well as the good things that are coming out […]
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 […]
We have written before about using the Ken Isaacs designed Living Structures system in our home. The simple grid based system can be used as a starting point for necessary things from shelving to the construction of whole houses. Currently, a Living Structure inspired system is our bed/shelving, providing a more […]
HAVEN is an exhibition in a garden. It was curated by the gardener.
Friday night we stopped by the HAVEN opening at B-huset, an artist run building that houses artists’ studios and events. B-huset is an old school building and the studios are in the old classrooms. A community […]
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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