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A community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration
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Siyu Xie posted a new event. 2 weeks ago
Decentred Multispecies Design“Empathy is at the heart of human-centred design projects, which aim to put real people and communities at the core of…
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Jason Barahona started the discussion Sharing new brief titled "What Happens to the Savings?" in the forum Planetary Health Just now
Sharing new brief titled "What Happens to the Savings?"
Hi all, I’m sharing Degrowth Institute’s newest brief called “What Happens to the Savings?” It explores how…
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What Happens to the Savings? — Degrowth Institute
What Happens to the Savings? — Degrowth Institute
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Siyu Xie posted a new post. 21 hours ago
Tool Libraries and Repair CommunitiesOn December 2, 2025, the Ecological Design Collective convened at the Station North Tool Library to start a…
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Lindi Shepard posted a new event. 23 hours ago
Extraction Fashion: Unequal Exchange and Degrowth ExploredOnline presentation of the report published by Research & Degrowth and War on Want investigating exploitation within…
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…
This fellowship is for creatives, innovators, designers, artists, writers, media makers, scientists, ecologists, technologists, systems thinkers, educators, place-based practitioners, changemakers,…
The International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) offers an extraordinary opportunity for PhD candidates to spend a summer doing…
Flooded Pine Press is re-issuing its call for pitch submissions for the debut series “Finding Joy and Solidarity in the…
Hi Everyone, I’m new to the network and hope it’s okay to share a course I run that I think…
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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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A place to share books worth reading, and also a place to meet now and then to talk about them. Moderated by EDC curator, ethnography…
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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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