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 […]
Temporary Travel Office in the Riparian City
“The Doan Brook Watershed is a Riparian City, a living territory where a flowing stream meets the land.”
The Doan Brook Watershed can be found coursing through Cleveland, Ohio in the middle of the United States. The water from the Doan Brook runs into Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes. The
We have a deepening interest in making city habitat for various kinds of creatures. Lately, our activities have been focused on habitat for solitary bees, also known as mason bees.
Here is our newest construction made out of found and re-purposed materials. We built a mini-living structure […]
Onsdag Billeder: Bird Houses + Icons of Nørrebro = Awesome!
There is a lot of construction going on in our neighborhood. New Metro stops are being made and there is an enormous site where a park once sat, where a lot of the tunneling is being coordinated. Each of the construction sites around the development of the Metro has these giant […]
It’s rhubarb season here in Denmark. Since we joined the Fødevarefællesskab (the local community supported agriculture style food cooperative), we have been able to learn more about seasonal eating–Danish style. Seasonal eating had been an important way to connect to the place we live. Over the winter, that meant a lot […]
Onsdag Billede: Particularly Perverse Idea of Nature
We went to DYRK Nørrebro today to plant Russian soybeans, an heirloom variety acclimated to far northern conditions. This is the very beginning of a long term project. We will post more about that later this week. DYRK is one of our favorite places in the city. Here you see a […]
We have not been posting as much as we have wanted lately as we both have been busy with new, separate projects for a really nice art festival happening in Tingbjerg called Visit Tingbjerg. But, we have a bunch planned for the coming days. Here is the weekly photo from the […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
Read Brett's essay about the park.
Download our guide:
This is our guide to how-to books from the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. Click to get the download page.
Categories
- Agriculture (11)
- Animal sounds (1)
- Artist parents (19)
- Arts and culture (106)
- Bees (3)
- Book reviews (14)
- Books (18)
- Critical essays (5)
- Daily Photo (5)
- Design (36)
- Dirt (11)
- Environmental activism (43)
- Exhibitions (24)
- Farms (11)
- Forest (7)
- Friday connect (15)
- Growing (42)
- Habitat (38)
- Homesteading (16)
- Interviews (15)
- Kitchen (14)
- Living structure (9)
- MISC (15)
- Mythological (2)
- Neighborhood (83)
- Ocean News (1)
- Our Art Work (21)
- Personal – Design/Art (3)
- Play (2)
- Playground (4)
- Projects (21)
- Public space (53)
- Resilience (13)
- Sea Side (2)
- Sojabønner (2)
- Tofu (8)
- Vermont correspondence (7)
- Water (3)
- Wednesday picture (31)
- Workshop (1)
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.
READ MORE
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.
• Read our review of the book.
• Buy the book.
• Download the book.