Announcing Litter: The New Digital Journal of the Ecological Design Collective

We are thrilled to introduce Litter, the inaugural digital magazine of the EDC, and an element of our broader redesign effort. With this launch, we not only share a collection of contributions from our community but also reassert our collective commitment to ecological thought, creative resistance, and political imagination in an era shadowed by reactionary forces.

Litter is a publication and a gathering place for an evolving archive of stories, interventions, and reflections. By bringing together artists, activists, scholars, and designers, Litter seeks to sustain and expand the radical political and ecological imaginaries that animate our work.

The name Litter holds layered meaning. In ecological terms, litter is what falls to the forest floor, what accumulates and decomposes, forming the soil from which new life grows. It is also debris, scrap, excess—what is overlooked or discarded. In naming this magazine Litter, we honor both senses: the collective detritus of thought and creation that nourishes transformation, and the peripheral, the excessive, the fragile.

Submit your work to Litter!

As part of the EDC redesign, we have also gathered our entire story archive under the same name, Litter. This decision reflects our belief in porous boundaries between formal publishing and everyday expressions of ecological engagement. From this point on, Litter will serve as a shared platform for publishing, conversation, news, and experimentation—an evolving extension of our community’s life and vision.

Explore the first digital magazine of Litter: Rethinking Ecological Design During a Time of Reactionary Politics

"Rethinking Ecological Design During a Time of Reactionary Politics” explores a bold refusal to cede the future to cynicism and despair, and an invitation to explore urgent questions of environmental justice, community, and imagination.

 “This issue is not merely a response to the conditions we face—it is an assertion that other futures remain possible.”

Within its pages (and screens), the Spring/Summer 2025 issue features:

• Poetic meditations and speculative prose from Lia Purpura that trace our entanglements with ecological precarity and possibility.
• Visual work by June Julian, offering what she calls a “visual wish for equilibrium.”
• Roundtable dialogue with Anand Pandian, Nicole Labruto, Samia Kirchner, Sam Myers, and PJ Brendese on how ecological design and activism might persist and evolve under increasing constraint.
• Graphic stories from Kai Crockett, which explore the perils and possibilities in speculative eco fiction.

We invite you to read, reflect, and join us in building this space.

Featured Artist: Anna Fine Foer – Nurture or Nature

We’re excited to introduce our new featured artist, Anna Fine Foer, and her project Nurture or Nature. This series of intricate collages bridges art, science, and environmental awareness, inspired by her collaboration with soil biodiversity researchers at Leiden University.

Foer translates complex scientific data on soil microbes and tulip cultivation into vivid visual narratives, making invisible ecosystems visible and engaging. Her background in textile conservation and lifelong fascination with maps and terrain bring rich texture and layered meaning to her work.

Now based in Baltimore, Foer has exhibited internationally—from the Israeli Embassy to the Indianapolis Museum of Art—and her work is held in prominent collections worldwide. With multiple Maryland State Arts Council awards, she continues to explore the connections between science, landscape, and sustainability.

Experience how Foer’s art transforms our understanding of the natural world. Nurture or Nature is on view on our platform.