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A community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration
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Lindi Shepard started the discussion Seeking Gardeners, Artists, & Curious Lawn Owners! in the forum Opportunities 20 hours ago
Seeking Gardeners, Artists, & Curious Lawn Owners!
Lawn Movers Inc. is a developing project initiated by David Guzman, one of this year’s recipients of the EDC Project…
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Verónica Ríos Saavedra posted a new event. a day ago
July Collective Garden Volunteer DayHelp them weed the garden – greens & herbs to take! [Registration required]
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Verónica Ríos Saavedra posted a new event. a day ago
Outfall Screening BlitzLocation TBD. Learn about water quality testing with the scientists of Blue Water Baltimore! An Outfall Screening[…]
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Verónica Ríos Saavedra posted a new event. a day ago
Garden Drop-InAt Cylburn Mansion. Drop by the gardens surrounding the Cylburn mansion to talk with Cylburn Arboretum Friends’ Garden Educator.
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…
Future of Us is a nonprofit coalition-led civic initiative that is inviting the public to join us in reimagining what…
How do you overcome a by-design sense of paralysis and barriers to disentangle from the system of oppression? I invite…
Are you an artist inspired by nature?👀 Do you have art to display and share with the world? Carrie Murray…
Space is limited~ for size, and to balance local and global participation. Please only RSVP if you can truly make…
- 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…
View forum - Opportunities
Last active 21 hours ago
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 - EDC Book Club
Last active 1 month ago
A place to share books worth reading, and also a place to meet now and then to talk about them. Moderated by EDC curator, ethnography…
View forum - Jones Falls Futures
Last active 2 months ago
A space to reimagine the present and future of the river at the heart of Baltimore. What could the Jones Falls be like in 2076,…
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Over the 2025-2026 year the EDC asks: What might it mean to search, recognize, celebrate, and create antidotes to toxicity?
At the Ecological Design Collective, we understand ecological design as more than aesthetic or technical intervention. It is a form of world-building. It is a way of resisting toxicity through the design of spaces, systems, and solidarities that enable life to flourish. To design an antidote is to craft the conditions for health, wellbeing, and joy. It is to reimagine polluted places as sites of renewal. To see not only what is wrong, but what is possible. And to act with others who are likewise struggling to breathe, to heal, to build. For 2025-2026, we will explore the many ways that toxicity manifests and the diverse strategies from the scientific, to the creative, to the social, to the speculative, that communities are developing to confront and transcend it.
With roots in Baltimore and relations around the world, we’re building a place for researchers, designers, activists, artists, writers and others to conceive and develop alternative ecological futures. Sign up to join us, post and participate, and receive our newsletters.
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