Last week Craig and Jen from Yurt Empire took part in the latest in late night library nights spreading across the City of Sydney. The title of this chat fest was Sketches … Continue reading
Yurt Empire at LATE NIGHT LIBRARY GLEBE: SKETCHES OF LAND
Yurt Empire focus in DabLab exhibition
Yurt Empire is testing the resilience and flexibility of permaculture design principles in complex city systems. Yurt Empire artist Alexandra Crosby has made this the focus of her new exhibition at UTS opening on April 2. Over the last decade what … Continue reading
Report from the Summer School for Applied Autonomy
This August, while Yurt Empire took a well-deserved rest, Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan spent a week in residence at the Summer School for Applied Autonomy, Berlin, doing some hands-on research into what it takes to live off the grid … Continue reading
Permanent Culture Now
Beyond sustainability. This site is made by 2 UK permaculturalists, Stephen Jones and Michael Thomas. It aims to foster a move towards a pragmatic, positive, social, economic and political transition to a permanent culture through sharing information, knowledge and also … Continue reading
Cartography Dept. Despatch #1
New from Yurt Empire’s Cartography Dept., as published in the forthcoming atlas-catalogue for Baadlands: An Atlas of Experimental Cartography “Yurt Empire treats cartography as another space of occupation, as a device for looking, for positioning and for remaking. The map depicted in this atlas … Continue reading
Augmented Urban Gardens
This is part of the Resilients project, by FoAM, Belgium Central Saint Martins, UK nadine, Belgium Performing Pictures, Sweden Projekt ATOL, Slovenia Time’s Up, Austria ‘Augmented Urban Gardens involves the study, development and use of urban or urban-fringe gardens. We … Continue reading
Berlin Farm Lab
Next month Yurt Empire Ambassadors Tessa & Sumu will be spending a week in Berlin as residents of this excellent new project by Berlin Farmlab artist Valentina Karga. The ‘Summer School for Applied Autonomy’ is: “a research initiative interested in capturing … Continue reading
Earlwood Farm
Earlwood Farm: an urban agriculture/sharehouse project on 1018 m2 of rented land.
Permaculture
“Ecology is a self-perpetuating economy” Milkwood Permaculture, Mudgee