Here with this week’s link round up. Have a good weekend wherever you are.
Thanks PBS for remixing Mr. Rogers and reminding us to imagine with the garden of our minds. Maybe we can imagine a better way to deal with 400 parts per million ( atmospheric carbon […]
This container garden brightens the corner of Mimersgade and Midgårdsgade in our Ydre Nørrebro neighborhood. The little garden of potted plants is a dogged and valiant attempt at carving out green space in a broad expanse of concrete. It’s closest competition being a ring of anemic imported palm trees, […]
The kind editors over at Kritik magazine have given me their blessing to post the Danish version of my essay about Superkilen, titled “Superkilen: Park med ekstrem borgerinddragelse!” [Superkilen: Participatory Park Exreme!].
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Visit the Kritik homepage, or pick up a copy of the magazine in stores throughout Denmark.
Download: Superkilen: […]
When you have a small child you often take long aimless walks around your neighborhood (and maybe even when you don’t have a small child in your life). For me, these walks are a great time to soak up the little neighborhood nuances that shape the place we call home.
Lately, I have been […]
Superkilen: Park med ekstrem borgerinddragelse!
By Brett On 6 May, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Critical essays, Design, Environmental activism, Neighborhood, Public space
Her er mit essay om Superkiln på dansk: download PDF.
If every building in Copenhagen had rain barrels like this one—that could be used for watering decorative plants—it would dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed to clean “waste water” as well as the amount of drinking water used in maintaining city gardens and flower beds. It would also help prepare us for more intense […]
More images from our ongoing collection of images and investigation of natural habitat for wild creatures in city spaces. These were all taken in Berlin last month. Click for more images.
This video made by a Danish design team for Greenpeace is up for a Webby award. It also shares an important message about the crisis in unsustainable fishing practices. Watch it!
We knew the artist and activist, Nicole Garneau from Chicago, but got to know her more deeply during the time she spent in Europe last year both in Copenhagen and London. In London, Nicole lead the performance workshop, Art-Oil-Numbers-Bodies-Love in association with Platform London, about performative responses to the issues of […]
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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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.
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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• Buy the book.
• Download the book.
