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End of Year Reflection 2025As 2025 draws to a close, the Ecological Design Collective (EDC) reflects on a year of change and making. The first half of the year…
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Siyu Xie started the discussion CFP: “Scholarship at the End of the World: Approaches to the (post)Anthropocene in the forum Opportunities 2 weeks ago
CFP: “Scholarship at the End of the World: Approaches to the (post)Anthropocene
Dear Respected Faculty Members, Scholars, Creative Practitioners,
We (Helen and Shams), on behalf of ‘Theory Theater…
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Jessie Croteau started the discussion CfP: "Global Challenges of Food System Transformation: Bridging Dichotomies" in the forum Opportunities 2 weeks ago
CfP: "Global Challenges of Food System Transformation: Bridging Dichotomies"
CfP: “Global Challenges of Food System Transformation: Bridging Dichotomies”, EADI Conference 29 June to 2 July 2026…
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Anand Pandian started the discussion Communities as Means of Repair in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity 2 weeks ago
Communities as Means of Repair
I really appreciated this conversation that we co-hosted the other day at the Station North Tool Library as part of… Read more
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Tool Libraries and Repair Communities
On December 2, 2025, the Ecological Design Collective convened at the Station North Tool Library to start a conversation with Jessa Wais and Blanca Callén Moreu about repair communities in Baltimore and Barcelona. Moderated by Anand Pandian, one of the … Continue reading
Dear Respected Faculty Members, Scholars, Creative Practitioners, We (Helen and Shams), on behalf of ‘Theory Theater Performance’ (TTP) Working Group,…
CfP: “Global Challenges of Food System Transformation: Bridging Dichotomies”, EADI Conference 29 June to 2 July 2026 (Antwerp, Belgium) We…
Please click here to learn more about a postdoctoral research opportunity at Cornell University. Cornell is seeking outstanding postdoctoral research…
The Frontiers of Climate and Biodiversity Governance Unprecedented heatwaves, floods, and accelerating ecosystem degradation underscore a growing scientific consensus: climate…
We are happy to announce the 2026 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school, which will take place 13-17 April 2025. The…
IFSH is hiring! The Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) is searching for…
The deadline (December 8) is approaching for a workshop on ‘EU climate neutrality and democratic resilience in turbulent times’ at…
Climate Wayfinding Facilitator Training With The All We Can Save Project | August 2–7, 2026, in New York’s Hudson Valley…
Co-creating Flood-Resilient Green Spaces: Understanding Health, Access and Equity in Leicestershire Communities Loughborough University is recruiting PhD students interested in…
The Environmental Research & Education Foundation operates multiple programs that require the submission of various applications and information. This site…
- 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 - Planetary Health
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Our dismantling of nature’s intricate and fragile web is now an urgent threat to human health and wellbeing. This forum offers a space for collaboration…
View forum - Green Building
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A place to compile notes, debates, plans and images of "green building" broadly construed.
View forum - Acoustic Ecologies
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The Acoustic Ecologies group brings together EDC members interested in sounding environmental spaces. Together, we explore questions such as: what does it mean to think…
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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.
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