on media
Hi all, Weedyconnection got feautured in the local Sydney media last week, with an article about urban foraging, read the article here, while today there was a broadcasting of an interview for ABC Radio National’s Bush Telegraph. Readers can download the sound here, or listen to the stream here.
On Wild Food and Foraging
You found a pubblication distributed via the Free Range Activist Network (FRAW), a loose collection of actions and initiatives with the common goal of improoving living experiences towards a world concerned more with sustainability than economy. Their website is a portal to a number of amazing projects, indicative of the effort of many. Below is […]
Well overdue update, or rather, you went to Mexico
lots of things, out-bursting and spiraling out. Blogging is a pleasure yet a chore in the list, and you find yourself starting documents like this, over and over again, which then (in theory) get copied and pasted online.. Each time is a worthy post, at times more relevant for the italian audience, others (more often […]
On Mali’s Farmers Discovery of a Weed’s Potential Power
Jason suggested some reading, n you share: KOULIKORO, Mali — When Suleiman Diarra Banani’s brother said that the poisonous black seeds dropping from the seemingly worthless weed that had grown around his family farm for decades could be used to run a generator, or even a car, Mr. Banani did not believe him. When he […]
On gardens as protest
An interesting article from Adrienne Skye Roberts was brought to my attention, about the thesis project of a Design student from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She was instrumental in developing a garden in a forgotten part of the urban landscape, with the aim of addressing and understanding the methodologies of dissent […]
On passing on someone elses writings
Working in Venice at the moment, assisting Cordeiro+Healy in their contribution to the Biennale. In the occasional spare time you go around looking for ancient trees and secret gardens. In the mean time this article was suggested by Lucas: Becoming native to this large place All around the countryside, growers of various nationalities have been […]
on learning history through people’s personal expiriences.
I was 11, in Leipzig, and it was a very confusing time. The year before it was just normal to go marching flags in hand for days like this (1st of may ndr). And then, all at the sudden, there was so much confusion. The whole system collapsed, and the people didnt know what to […]
Spinning art into a fine thread
The story goes Leipzig had the biggest cotton-spinning plant of continental Europe. At the time 4,000 people worked in a 10 hectares complex which included worker’s homes, allotment gardens and the factory’s kindegarten. After the fall of DDR the factories were abandoned and left unattended. Tjhe ownership changed from state to a private consortium who […]
On setting up Bio-art
“No please, don’t refer to us as environmental artists”, Caretto-Spagna said in one of the many exchanges we had in the past 6 weeks. You worked with them in a mentorship program in Cambiano, Italy, getting ready a major new work for a curated group show for the Strozzina, Firenze, Green Platform. When you were […]
On Milano anarchists
This is the year Milano celebrate their avant-garde, the Futurists. The ‘rising city’ does so presenting a flamboyant selection of events and exhibitions dedicated to the centenary of this ‘rebellious, visionary avant-garde movement.’ You went to see it, spent the day in the fast-paced northern Italian centre, famous for its fashion hothouses, and on the […]
