Ecological Design Collective | Baltimore’s Jones Falls | Activity https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/baltimores-jones-falls/ Activity feed for the group, Baltimore’s Jones Falls. Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:39:28 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 93b06f93969f1b3a1ebd6df8921be366 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6822/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:15:33 -0400 0 727092a8d056bd4413718c796294bd1a Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Baltimore folks, please join us at the Peale Museum […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6787/ Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:37:43 -0400 Baltimore folks, please join us at the Peale Museum tomorrow for an event kicking off an exciting new collaborative project that I’ve been developing together with @Lee of MICA and @brucewillen of Ghost Rivers, called Jones Falls 2076.

“The lower Jones Falls has been buried below I-83 for over 50 years, overlooked and mistreated. With the…

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JF(x): Imagining the River Beyond the Freeway

Join us to imagine new futures for the Jones Falls at this collaborative workshop.

]]> 0 0d8cfb5b0de7518da0107e8a90e8235e Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: “In Seoul, the restored waterway has been a triumph. It […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6572/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:49:58 -0500 “In Seoul, the restored waterway has been a triumph. It doesn’t just provide a peaceful refuge from the city’s busy streets, it serves as a cultural corridor with year-round festivals and performances, while helping cool the surrounding neighbourhoods, fighting air pollution and managing increasingly intense monsoon…

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‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream

Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city

]]> 0 8e6fa748aeeb9f52656cd374573f8043 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Urban environments channel all kinds of […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6073/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:36:07 -0400 Urban environments channel all kinds of spiritual convictions, especially running water. Like the Ganesha I stumbled across in the Stony Run here in Baltimore this week…

]]> 0 5cbfddba3f912cc77ac91f9792b91845 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Good to walk a stretch of the JF this week with […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5821/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:59:54 -0400 Good to walk a stretch of the JF this week with visual artist and philosopher @jordan as we scope out a speculative studio course we’re teaching together this fall called “The Future of Here.” Reminders everywhere of the nonhuman inhabitants of this urban space, like the injured deer that came to rest beside the water here some time ago.

]]> 0 4f27abf27763d983370595b30bf71b70 Carissa Aoki posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Re-posting this to this group in particular, in case any […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4308/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:59:14 -0400 Re-posting this to this group in particular, in case any of you don’t have notifications on the main Timeline. Hope to see you tomorrow!

Artist Talk at MICA: Bruce Willen

Thursday, March 28, 6-7pm, Main Building Room 110, 1300 W Mt. Royal Avenue

Bruce Willen, creator of Ghost Rivers, is giving a talk tomorrow night at MICA. Open to the Public!…

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Buried rivers flow underneath Baltimore. One artist wonders whether it’s time to dig them up.

Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.

]]> 0 be60f2b7966765f2709ca2d5f9778121 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3955/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 03:44:10 -0500 0 5f3b59e7fe3eca08955d73b126eaf82a Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: On a day like today, when the rainwater running […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3846/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:58:08 -0500 On a day like today, when the rainwater running everywhere is a reminder that we are always part of some watershed, I’m grateful that work like the Ghost Rivers project by @brucewillen exists to remind us in other times of our buried and neglected urban streams. The public launch in Remington a couple of months ago was amazing to…

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thebaltimorebanner.com

Buried rivers flow underneath Baltimore. One artist wonders whether it’s time to dig them up.

Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.

]]> 0 9ac7a2fa72058af2008bf476b3f3767b Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3260/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:38:21 -0400 0 5f7757fc974c5b24c11f28f3b0da7233 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3222/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 12:44:30 -0400 0 708d3420f2bf39332f4d32e202641a5d Robin Gunkel posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: just found this... https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3161/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 03:06:02 -0400 just found this…

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Daylighting: A Case Study of the Jones Falls River in Baltimore, Maryland

See the story

]]> 1 9d171033a3880310f5d0f33644046b1d Robin Gunkel replied to the discussion Daylighting the Jones Falls in the forum Baltimore's Jones Falls https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/baltimores-jones-falls/forum/discussion/daylighting-the-jones-falls/#post-5215 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:05:05 -0400 Reply to Daylighting the Jones Falls

Thanks, Anand!

]]> 46c37d0d0b06b06944ab6be868482aa8 Robin Gunkel posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Hmm, it doesn't look like a preview is loading for […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2499/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:57:03 -0400 Hmm, it doesn’t look like a preview is loading for some reason. Here’s an article on daylighting buried streams. https://www.bayjournal.com/news/pollution/shining-daylight-on-the-chesapeake-bay-s-buried-streams/article_28969f4a-1ce6-11ee-a920-ebfc9a095586.html

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]]> 1 b718fcb796bf2b66e6e89af3854d8fc2 Anand Pandian replied to the discussion Daylighting the Jones Falls in the forum Baltimore's Jones Falls https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/baltimores-jones-falls/forum/discussion/daylighting-the-jones-falls/#post-5212 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:55:13 -0400 Reply to Daylighting the Jones Falls

From @Robin

https://www.bayjournal.com/news/pollution/shining-daylight-on-the-chesapeake-bay-s-buried-streams/article_28969f4a-1ce6-11ee-a920-ebfc9a095586.html

]]> 369634f777629d12240f040f755f08e9 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: The big flooding event last week, how did it look near […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2483/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:25:02 -0400 The big flooding event last week, how did it look near you on the Jones Falls? I was away when it happened but the impact is so evident along the Stony Run where it looks like the water level rose several feet. Crews have been clearing the tunnel but there’s still so much debris well above the waterline.

]]> 4 214bf46a79ec553fd70f3ecbcaf98204 jordan posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://longnow.org/ideas/the-river-twice/ https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2275/ Sun, 06 Aug 2023 18:26:20 -0400 https://longnow.org/ideas/the-river-twice/

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The River Twice

The rebirth of formerly polluted urban waterways is one of the signal triumphs of long-term thinking. Why do we keep forgetting how it happened?

]]> 0 d68bfca1c5375e71c3ed69c70aba05d4 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Writing from London, where most of the urban waterways […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2222/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:14:44 -0400 Writing from London, where most of the urban waterways have been buried, yes, but I also just walked past this open air cinema happening across the Grand Union Canal and it led me to wonder whether such a thing might even be possible on the JF. 

]]> 0 3af65b5fcab4282074fc7b03df9835a3 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: The Jones Falls actually blew up in flames in […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2109/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:24:29 -0400 The Jones Falls actually blew up in flames in 1926! Fascinating and disturbing account of the history of pollution and neglect of the JF (from the Sun in 1991), down to promises to rid the city of an “eyesore” with the JFX.

“A sheet of flame 40 feet high in places spread along the open portion of the river from Baltimore Street to Pratt…

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]]> 0 2f4f1008408726e4afb00eca5159d905 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Hi folks, wanted to make sure you all saw the notice […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2051/ Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:09:46 -0400 Hi folks, wanted to make sure you all saw the notice about the EDC picnic and social gathering on Thursday evening at Lake Roland, i.e. on the Jones Falls! Please stop by if you have some time, would be good to see you.

]]> 2 54a3a3cc490368a13261f197b6131e1d Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: I find this curious and fascinating. Someone has […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1997/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 22:11:50 -0400 I find this curious and fascinating. Someone has planted things here, just above the tunnel where the Stony Run goes underground, one a blueberry bush I think, going so far as to mulch what they planted. Anonymous public caretaking. 

]]> 1 919b9cc2b547bcec2ed784c2b6d934a8 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Biking along the Jones Falls this morning with my […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1973/ Mon, 29 May 2023 16:23:13 -0400 Biking along the Jones Falls this morning with my daughter, we saw one of the yellow crowned night herons nesting along the river, just across from the streetcar museum. An adult with one of the chicks, the closeup is via phone + binoculars but ok enough.

]]> 2 432a9449cb7b1e17e8c9f0a422e6f97e Xandi Egginton posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: I wanted to share this essay by Marcela Olivera […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1966/ Fri, 26 May 2023 21:36:47 -0400 I wanted to share this essay by Marcela Olivera and Alexander Dwinell with this group! It’s been making me think a lot about what “public” space in Baltimore entails as it relates to communities and individuals feeling connected to, and being stewards of, their watersheds and basic means of existence. What does it mean on a conceptual but also… Read more

]]> 0 a50b7303091f9fc956b26c0a723d6de0 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: This feels relevant to the future of the Jones Falls. […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1948/ Thu, 25 May 2023 11:04:24 -0400 This feels relevant to the future of the Jones Falls. One could try to make this case in Baltimore as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/politics/biden-removing-highways.html

nytimes.com

Highways Have Sliced Through City After City. Can the U.S. Undo the Damage?

The Biden administration is funding projects around the country aimed at reconnecting communities that have been divided by transportation infrastructure.

]]> 0 dcde4fd6d763c63f40f357d68191ef7c Xandi Egginton posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Hello! My name is Xandi (he/they). I am directing […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1926/ Fri, 19 May 2023 14:48:06 -0400 Hello! My name is Xandi (he/they). I am directing a documentary—methodologically I think of it more as a visual ethnography—about the Jones Falls, the layers of highway that have been built atop it throughout the last 150 years, and present-day engagements with this urban topography that seek not only to uplift its history but to reimagine…

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]]> 1 5a67acca4b67f5502febeded6b82b414 jordan posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Hey all,Teaching a workshop this summer at The […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1853/ Mon, 08 May 2023 16:48:23 -0400 Hey all,

Teaching a workshop this summer at The Ivy Bookshop…
Centered around connection to place and kinship with all that grows and lives there.
Meets in the garden behind shop along Jones Falls. First Saturday each month starting June 3rd for 3 months.

“Your passion or your empathy for the Earth is the beginning of your recognition of…

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]]> 0 b0a96da5fb7c7f2307793e49e808cf99 jordan posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: I caught a video of otters in Jones Falls last Friday in […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1840/ Fri, 05 May 2023 18:02:40 -0400 I caught a video of otters in Jones Falls last Friday in the deluge….

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-ed-rodricks-0504-otters-wildlife-20230504-o4lwn36xrndhplbj6nfe7eg4ba-story.html

]]> 1 f0bb81739f8ea77ad33e96d90d93a0cd Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Fate of our […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1839/ Fri, 05 May 2023 12:48:21 -0400 Fate of our urban streams…

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/new-jersey-pasta-dump.html

nytimes.com

A New Jersey Mystery: Who Dumped Hundreds of Pounds of Pasta, and Why?

The police and public works employees responded after “15 wheelbarrow loads” of pasta were dumped in mounds along a creek in Old Bridge, N.J.

]]> 0 df83dcfc65f5630cee220b63881a4e48 jordan posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTam4-u6w3/?hl=enGo see […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1790/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:15:28 -0400 https://www.instagram.com/p/CqTam4-u6w3/?hl=en

Go see Marty Koelsch’s grad show at MICA in Lazarus Gallery 131 W North Ave. Only up through 4/30. Beautiful study of history of Jones Falls and their relationship with it.

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Marty Koelsch on Instagram: "what is a favorite memory you have had with the rivers around you?"

44 likes, 0 comments - Marty Koelsch (@martykoelsch) on Instagram: "what is a favorite memory you have had with the rivers around you?"

]]> 0 4bef09c4ae5568de9c6875fc124e141d Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Here are the slides that @Lee and I shared during our […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1784/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:52:32 -0400 Here are the slides that @Lee and I shared during our talk and workshop for the Friends of Stony Run last week, on connecting watershed communities, the JF and SR.

]]> 1 c6dfb41437d0b830bfe02ba02e6f598b Lee Davis posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Beautiful day on Monday and beautiful afternoon walk […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1746/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:30:23 -0400 Beautiful day on Monday and beautiful afternoon walk & brainstorm with @anand on the Stony Run. I love discovering different places and beauty each time.

]]> 0 7db1632b6eccb585d37892637c646709 jordan posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: Great presentation at STSI by Anand and Lee! Looking […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1740/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:45:45 -0400 Great presentation at STSI by Anand and Lee! Looking forward to seeing all the ideas people shared for the future of Jones Falls.

I attached a little article here about my work because I believe in getting peoples’ attention with something fun and engaging. that can lead to educating and getting them involved.

I imagine (environmentally…

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]]> 1 27c46258f2bf68133325419be20b3155 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: So lovely to be back on the water this past […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1739/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:18:28 -0400 So lovely to be back on the water this past weekend, kayaking for the first time this spring on the Jones Falls, at Lake Roland.

]]> 0 528f5dcd68b58615b910e25f0cc876ed Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1679/ Sat, 08 Apr 2023 16:47:31 -0400 https://bluewaterbaltimore.org/blog/bwb-and-cla-file-suit-against-fleischmanns-vinegar-for-violating-clean-water-laws/

]]> 0 74ac3dda7bdfe89c039d20e7fa190105 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1568/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:07:12 -0400 https://www.bayjournal.com/columns/past_is_prologue/ghosts-of-industrial-heyday-still-haunt-baltimore-s-harbor-creeks/article_ad4d033b-3e91-58e6-be7c-111b38888d36.html

]]> 0 eea9e37dc91c2d9f08967892a1949a21 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1567/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:02:15 -0400 https://www.wypr.org/curiosity/2021-09-29/where-are-baltimores-hidden-streams

wypr.org

Where are Baltimore's hidden streams?

Why are there a bunch of streams hidden underground below Baltimore?

]]> 0 307184df43cc1db5163eb0884366fb7c Anand Pandian replied to the discussion Daylighting the Jones Falls in the forum Baltimore's Jones Falls https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/baltimores-jones-falls/forum/discussion/daylighting-the-jones-falls/#post-3543 Wed, 15 Mar 2023 03:19:03 -0400 Reply to Daylighting the Jones Falls

https://treehuggingurbanism.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/the-jones-falls-valley-corridor/

]]> 0f474128916f86ed18b67aa69d5edb92 Anand Pandian started the discussion Daylighting the Jones Falls in the forum Baltimore's Jones Falls https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/baltimores-jones-falls/forum/discussion/daylighting-the-jones-falls/ Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:59:55 -0400 Daylighting the Jones Falls

Here are some links to previous efforts to imagine this possibility:

https://www.planetforward.org/idea/daylighting-jones-falls-river

]]> 078fdf84aab403bae5ae954736b457d6 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/404/ Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:57:54 -0400 0 6795bffdfef108fbf40e93011cdfc0d3 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/401/ Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:56:15 -0400 0 ae729134ba78100ef2386fa6d74d8b45 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Baltimore’s Jones Falls: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/390/ Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:47:56 -0400 0