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Alexi Scheiber replied to the discussion EDC Project Awards Proposal – Refuturing Connections in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity Just now
EDC Project Awards Proposal - Refuturing Connections
Hi Kate,
Just wanted to make sure you also saw the Solarpunk call at the Crow’s Nest (includes seperate, free programming…
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Call for Art Due March 03-- Solarpunk
Speculative artwork allows us to envision the future, but this genre is dominated by dystopia– notably cyberpunk and steampunk. In visual arts, dire warnings get lost in the allure of cybernetic partners and elegant Victorian costumes. “Solarpunk” was devised as … Continue reading
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Rachel Stein replied to the discussion EDC Project Awards Proposal – Refuturing Connections in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity 58 minutes ago
EDC Project Awards Proposal - Refuturing Connections
I love your idea for a collective future reimagining! Your meditative approach to this issue feels like such a…
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Rachel Stein started the discussion EDC Project Award Proposal: Feeling Tingly? in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity an hour ago
EDC Project Award Proposal: Feeling Tingly?
“Feeling Tingly?” will be a multi-sensory installation that explores overconsumption by centering materials that reflect…Read more
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amalia deloney started the discussion Inspired + Excited in the forum Jones Falls Futures 5 hours ago
Hello, new member here (as of this morning). I am posting and reading the protocols at the same time, so my apologies if I…
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…
The International Degrowth Network is starting to plan another Online Degrowth Movement Assembly, expected to take place online in late…
Dear Respected Faculty Members, Scholars, Creative Practitioners, We (Helen and Shams), on behalf of ‘Theory Theater Performance’ (TTP) Working Group,…
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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 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…
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A place to compile notes, debates, plans and images of "green building" broadly construed.
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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.
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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