Ecological Design Collective | Ecological Imagination | Activity https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/ecological-imagination/ Activity feed for the group, Ecological Imagination. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:30:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 89096901efc53070d8ce85c53a964749 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: Algal bloom on a corner of Lake Anna in Virginia. It’s […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5982/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:53:06 -0400 Algal bloom on a corner of Lake Anna in Virginia. It’s beautiful in a way, especially when the late afternoon sun catches the water and everything glows softly in green, stoking my imagination of a mutant ecology for fallen times. But it also represents a failure of ecological imagination, a symptom of the excess fertilizers and organic waste…

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]]> 2 5409e851586e0eeba43daa7a2144eba3 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: “Perhaps it would be useful, now and then, to consider the […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2042/ Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:20:24 -0400 “Perhaps it would be useful, now and then, to consider the large, collective migrations of various creatures as active expressions of the Earth itself. To consider them as slow gestures of a living geology, improvisational experiments that gradually stabilized into habits now necessary to the ongoing metabolism of the sphere. For truly: Are not…

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emergencemagazine.org

Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram

Cultural ecologist David Abram reflects on the deep intelligence that guides migrating animals across the wider body of the Earth, presented with “Wandering Within,” a new series of drawings by Katie Holten.

]]> 0 94cb6989213548485e92830cd30d7f7e jordan posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/opinion/urban-gardens-rewi […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1859/ Tue, 09 May 2023 18:24:15 -0400 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/opinion/urban-gardens-rewilding-cities-biodiversity.html

nytimes.com

Opinion | Let the Post-Pandemic City Grow Wild

Cities contain too many perfected, simplified forms of nature, ones that look pretty but are biologically impoverished.

]]> 1 c1e428cc320e34d9199dcfaaf7ca5d1d Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: Intriguing. “Dystopias/Utopias are monologues moored in […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1525/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:31:04 -0400 Intriguing. “Dystopias/Utopias are monologues moored in the gaze of privilege, inevitably tied to boundaries of thought established via patriarchal settler colonialism. Protopia is a continuous dialogue, more a verb than a noun, a process rather than a destination, never finite, always iterative, meant to be questioned, adjusted, and expanded.…

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medium.com

PROTOPIA FUTURES [FRAMEWORK]

Throughout this document, a conscious choice was made to use the pronoun “we”. The “we” of Protopia is everyone involved in putting this together, yes, but also the collaborators past and future…

]]> 0 409da22db15852377822811703a3f8ef Michael Degani posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: I'm reading about the Bhopal disaster on wikipedia. […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1208/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:24:19 -0500 I’m reading about the Bhopal disaster on wikipedia. Not only is it terrifying, it shows exactly the workings of psychological denial and inability to prevent disaster, even as it’s happening in real time. This is us in the climate emergency. We’re too slow and too late, because we can’t really grasp that things really do just end.

“The pressure…

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Bhopal disaster - Wikipedia

Bhopal disaster - Wikipedia

]]> 1 3932ed610c99c5d3ec7f7c90c2bd804e Michael Degani posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: I've been reading through this book Anthropocene […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1152/ Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:35:33 -0500 I’ve been reading through this book Anthropocene Backloop by Stephanie Wakefield and I have to say it clarified a bunch of things for me. In particular it has a cogent critique of resilience as just so many efforts to keep our cities’ infrastructural heads above water. She discusses both “Oystertecture” in New York and Everglades Restoration…

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openhumanitiespress.org

Open Humanities Press– Anthropocene Back Loop

A scholar led open access publishing collective

]]> 0 b3c8e2d68c65e4cba98821da4be063e8 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4vKs9_c-kkScenarios: […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1147/ Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:58:01 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4vKs9_c-kk

Scenarios: “multiple stories about how the future of a socioecological system might unfold from existing factors, new patterns, and human volition.”

“One advantage of scenarios is that unlike complex technological models that only scientists and engineers can think about, anybody–ordinary…

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]]> 0 758411b335677095e884324b38afeb5b Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: "Where are today’s design schools and design researchers? […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1048/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 01:00:02 -0500 “Where are today’s design schools and design researchers? In my experience, most design teaching is feeding the machine – sticking to the outdated playbook of modernism, training students in skills for industry now rather than preparing them to contribute thoughtfully to a less materialistic future. With some notable exceptions, there are …

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tandfonline.com

Design is … Lost

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2023)

]]> 0 75c5f8fd5e46a4991b7fbd00e339ba28 Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: Talk exploring the contradictions of sustainability […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1039/ Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:51:58 -0500 Talk exploring the contradictions of sustainability (in design): between greenwashing, politics of production, and overconsumption.

As the earth burns and drowns in front of our eyes due to our overconsumption, we, designers, promote the discourse on designing for a better world but carry on with business as usual. In an era of…

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]]> 0 21e1f20b3c686cf9aa00bcf6d26033f3 Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: 7 points of convergence towards civic and […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1020/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:22:44 -0500 7 points of convergence towards civic and Indigenous futures
On October 9, 2019, 16 people from diverse expertises and worldviews gathered in Toronto. Together, we explored socio-ecological pathways that weave civic and Indigenous imaginations to better support current and future generations… Running through all of our discussions, was…

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Civic-Indigenous 7.0

7 points of convergence towards civic and Indigenous futures

]]> 1 6e879276c11e379068685d0d4a23a35b Brandon Meyer posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: Ten valuable learnings from creative practitioners […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1018/ Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:08:47 -0500 Ten valuable learnings from creative practitioners [who participated in the Messages in A Bottle project]

Identifying emerging themes from each interview led to a total of 34 themes. We then compared, combined, and further questioned and expanded the themes, informed by the full interview transcripts and related literature. This resulted in…

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Ten learnings - Messages in a bottle

Ten learnings Ten valuable learnings have emerged by carefully listening to what the creative practitioners shared with us (see Background section for details). Identifying emerging themes from each interview led to a total of 34 themes. We then compared, combined, … Continue reading

]]> 0 9f540104c711a5b1daacf8070dc1e67c Michael Degani posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: Ok well I saw this presentation today on the […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/789/ Sat, 26 Nov 2022 19:36:19 -0500 Ok well I saw this presentation today on the “torso-limb index” in animals and buildings and it definitely fired up my ecological imagination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5rZtYXE368

]]> 0 f99b920a4629ccebdd455e1a57212d3c Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Ecological Imagination: I love the idea of ecological imagination and I've […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/788/ Sat, 26 Nov 2022 19:31:24 -0500 I love the idea of ecological imagination and I’ve been trying to think about what it means to me in the last few days since @Cassie created this group. Here’s one small idea that came to mind while kayaking on this surprisingly warm and sunny November day here in Baltimore. Ecological imagination is an invitation to look through the…Read more

]]> 0 aec1391c6b030b51db98d182c716d0c5 Cassie Robinson created the group Ecological Imagination https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/692/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 23:48:53 -0500 0