Skip to Content

Oliver Kellhammer

Oliver Kellhammer is a Canadian land artist, permaculture teacher, activist and writer. His botanical interventions and public art projects demonstrate nature's surprising ability to recover from damage. His course, "Open Source City: Field Studie" runs from June 20-24 at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. You can register for it here. 

Articles

Cottonwood Community Gardens: oasis in peril
City
Oliver Kellhammer
Sep 19th, 2012
Sometimes a bad idea just won’t go away. Though Vancouver’s future has been looking a lot greener lately, with the expansion of bike lanes and improved municipal composting, I was dismayed to learn...
Discovering Portland's organic architecture
Earth Matters
Oliver Kellhammer
Dec 1st, 2011
Straw-thatched walls, solar hot water...welcome to the Tolkienesque world of Portland's Planet Repair Institute.
Grand Theft Auto, Vancouver riots, and the deficit of the real
Commentary
Oliver Kellhammer
Jul 11th, 2011
J.G. Ballard would have loved Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot. In fact he consistently imagined situations like this (and worse) in his dystopian novels and short fiction. In his novella Running...
Open source city: the future of Vancouver’s urban landscape
Technology
Oliver Kellhammer
May 31st, 2011
When we talk about urban landscape, we usually think about grand 19th-century interventions like Frederick Law Olmsted’s Central Park or Haussmann’s epic re-engineering of the avenues and boulevards...
Syndicate content