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Litter Winter/Spring 2026This publication emerges from a shared recognition that toxicity has become a defining condition of our time,[…]
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Anand Pandian started the discussion 2026 EDC Project Awards Competition Announcement in the forum Opportunities a day ago
2026 EDC Project Awards Competition Announcement
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Antidotes to Toxicity: 2025-2026 EDC Theme
Video still by Adham Faramawy, sourced from openlab.fl, modified with text overlay If we were to choose a word to mark the condition of our times, one which is permeating environments, social worlds, our very bodies, it might be “toxic.” … Continue reading
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Luke Freedman posted a new event. 2 days ago
Syntropy / Entropy - A land based inquiry exploring possibilities for making, creating, and relating otherwise.Entropy: The universal tendency of order to decay towards disorder and chaos. Things fall apart. Syntropy: The[…]
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Anand Pandian posted an update a week ago
The snow (and ice, yes) a reminder: be kind to your neighbors, those of your and other kinds, those here to stay and…Read more
The Ecological Design Collective is a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. To support opportunities for collaboration among members…
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,…
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…
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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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