REIMAGINING LAND: A 2024-25 EDC Itinerary
Land can mean many things. There is the surface of the earth and what lies beneath. There are the rivers and channels that run above…
Category: Conversations
a record of conversations hosted by the EDC
Revalue and Reuse: A Conversation with Mary Mattingly
On April 29th, 2024, the EDC’s ECO-ARTs group hosted a conversation with renowned environmental artist Mary Mattingly. Mattingly is known for merging art, environmental activism,…
Degrowth Utopias in the 70s and Today: A Conversation with Anthony Galluzzo
The EDC Book Club met on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 to talk with New York-based writer and academic Anthony Galluzzo about his new book, Against…
A Conversation with Soledad Salamé
On February 9th, the EDC’s ECO-ARTs group held a conversation with Baltimore-based visual artist Soledad Salamé, exploring the connections between ecologies and technologies in her…
Walking the Highway to Nowhere
A guided tour documents past harms, engages present struggles, and imagines radical possibilities in West Baltimore. On September 21st, 2023, Ecological Design Collective curator Cristina…
Telling Your Climate Story: A Climate Imaginarium Workshop
What is your climate story? Our personal experiences often force us to confront what it means to live in the midst of ecological collapse —…
The Making of a Passive House in Italy
Once upon a time in Northern Italy… June 8, 2023 The charm of this place, Patone-Isera, is the view: the site is only 600 meters…
On the Term “Degrowth”
The first time I heard the term “degrowth,” I felt unsettled and confused. I agree with Mike Degani’s assessment of the term in his recent…
Degrowth is a Planned Reduction of Useless Stuff
Degrowth is a weird and unsettling word. It sounds more intuitive in the original French— la décroissance. For some that’s the appeal, and for others that’s the problem.…
An Earth Day Eve of Solidarity
In recognition of Earth Day, a coalition of local environmental and community organizations hosted Looking Back & Building Forward: An Environmental J…
