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Lindi Shepard started the discussion Collectively Situated Knowledge: A Decolonial Research Methods Workshop (online) in the forum Opportunities a day ago
Collectively Situated Knowledge: A Decolonial Research Methods Workshop (online)
El Cambalache’s Department of Decolonial Economics is offering an opportunity to engage in collective, decolonial, and…
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Lindi Shepard posted a new event. a day ago
Comparative Thought and Literature Graduate Symposium - Touching Earth: Queer Ecologies, Ecosexualities, and the Ethics of RelationWe hope you can join us for the Comparative Thought and Literature Graduate Symposium, to be held on April 17–18, 2026,[…]
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Rachel Stein replied to the discussion EDC Project Award Proposal: Feeling Tingly? in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity a day ago
EDC Project Award Proposal: Feeling Tingly?
Exactly! I’m trying to reframe that encounter as something that’s pleasurable while still being confrontational. Our…
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Rachel Stein replied to the discussion EDC Project Award Proposal: Feeling Tingly? in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity a day ago
EDC Project Award Proposal: Feeling Tingly?
YES! I’ve been very influenced by this book…so I think it’s time for a re-read! I like how she describes plastic…
El Cambalache’s Department of Decolonial Economics is offering an opportunity to engage in collective, decolonial, and non-capitalist research practice. This…
The Crow’s Nest has expanded our youth call to include college students, and moved the due date to April 8th!…
Flooded Pine Press (a micro-publishing operation run by EDC members Holden Turner and Brianna Cunliffe) seek poetry submissions for our…
Applications are open to the upcoming cohort of The Climatebase Fellowship. Recognized by Forbes as one of the “Top Professional…
The Ecological Design Collective is a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. While our work centers on grounded, in-person…
SOLARPUNK– Submissions due March 03 We can’t be what we can’t see. As fascism destroys our social systems, the ability…
Taking place October 9-11, 2026, the Decomposium is a three-day symposium exploring decomposition and the intertwined processes of death, decay,…
The Chesapeake Bay Trust is excited to announce a pilot program to tackle maintenance on small-scale restoration projects in Maryland.…
Open call for a PhD position at the Department of Political Science of Lund University. The position is part of…
7th Annual JHU Sustainability Symposium | April 8, 2026 The Ecological Design Collective is seeking panelists for our session, “Antidotes…
- 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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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.…
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View forum - Jones Falls Futures
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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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