I thought could be interesting for our project to share these links about artistic practices that surrounds that which is called today Collaborative Environmental Art, maybe a way to build community through the action of art in the environment, or maybe in the opposite way, a way to build environment through the action of art into the community...

So here it goes a very interesting link about "how" to start a project on these themes (stole from the Greenmuseum):

http://greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=209

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Here is Lawson Park, a residence-experimental lab for researchers and artist working into enviromental collaborative art:

http://www.lawsonpark.org/

They are the founders of Grizedale Arts http://www.grizedale.org/, an important instituion based in England.

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Our neighbours in Rotterdam, My Villages, also working into the idea of rural contemporary art:

http://www.myvillages.org/

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Another group from London, Public Groups:

http://www.publicworksgroup.net/

I think very intresesting the project 'International Village Shop', a shop that travels selling local products of local producers: think the local internationally, building the global from the local (I bought them an amazing soap made from horse milk!) :P

http://www.publicworksgroup.net/InternationalVillageShop

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And finally for today (the list can go further) a project on urban gardening:

http://www.avantgardening.org/