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Julianne Chan posted a new event. a day ago
The Jones Falls 2076 Exhibition: Opening ReceptionJoin us for the opening reception of the Jones Falls 2076 exhibition at the Peale Museum! Visitors will be invited to[…]
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Nicole Labruto posted a new event. 9 hours ago
Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better MovementThe Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series at Bird in Hand cafe engages with some of the most pressing[…]
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Julianne Chan posted a new event. a day ago
The Jones Falls 2076 ExhibitionThe Jones Falls 2076 exhibition at The Peale explores alternative futures for Baltimore’s Jones Falls River, as imagined[…]
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Begonia Pecharroman replied to the discussion Disabled Ecologies Follow-Up Discussion? in the forum Rooted Reads 2 days ago
Disabled Ecologies Follow-Up Discussion?
Thank you, Carissa for this!
I really enjoyed our conversation about Disabled Ecologies and how different backgrounds…
Jobs, grants, calls for participation, residencies, collaborations, and other opportunities shared by the community
The Switzer Foundation is accepting applications for the 2027 Switzer Environmental Fellowships. Switzer Fellowships are given to graduate students who…
Two researchers at Trent University (Anne Pasek and Stephanie Rutherford) are recruiting a new PhD student for joint supervision and…
Duke is hiring two full-time positions to support the STRONG Manoomin Collective initiatives. Please direct all inquiries to my research…
TUM ENERGISE Center Announcement of Doctoral Scholarship “Sustainable Energy Governance” Call for Applications The TUM ENERGISE Center is a partnership…
Lawn Movers Inc. is a developing project initiated by David Guzman, one of this year’s recipients of the EDC Project…
1 Postdoc and 4 PhD positions “Global Assessment of Participation in Sustainability Governance” For the newly-funded ERC Advanced Grant project…
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submission: Tuesday, June 30 Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference In Case of Emergency: Catastrophe,…
Cargonomia, a degrowth cooperative in Hungary, has officially become a certified European Solidarity Corps Host and Lead Organisation. After more…
The Ecological Design Collective is looking to hire a UX designer from within our community to help us redesign and…
<font color=”#2a2a2a”>Are you excited about becoming an ambassador for climate storytelling in your community? Join Climate Stories Project and participants…
Community discussion spaces organized around EDC themes, projects, places, and shared interests
- Seeds of Healing
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View forum - Rooted Reads
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We're rebooting the Ecological Design Collective book club this fall in partnership with Bird in Hand bookshop and cafe in Baltimore. Join us on the…
View forum - Opportunities
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Our Opportunities forum is a platform to share projects for collaboration, job postings, volunteer positions, calls for art and publication submissions, and other relevant listings.…
View forum - Antidotes to Toxicity
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Echoing the yearly theme of 2025-2026, this is a discussion space for exploring practices that counteract harm. Share approaches to non-toxic materials, regenerative systems, and…
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Litter digital magazine, essays, interviews, event recordings, project features, and other public scholarship from the EDC community
Digital exhibitions highlighting artists whose work engages ecological questions, relations, and futures
seed is small, but it carries worlds of potential. It is not yet a forest, a field, a flower, not yet a medicine, a meal, or a movement; however, it hints at what might become possible if cultivated. For 2026-2027, the Ecological Design Collective is cultivating the theme Seeds of Healing.
After a year of thinking with Antidotes to Toxicity, we turn now toward what might grow after, within, and against toxic conditions. If an antidote interrupts harm, this year’s theme gathers up those efforts and potentials of healing after that harm. Although healing cannot erase toxicity, embryonic efforts of regeneration point us to what can be planted in damaged ground, what can be tended in places too quickly dismissed as ruined, and what forms of collective life might become possible in what has been deemed toxic.
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