EDC Book Club
A place to share books worth reading, and also a place to meet now and then to talk about them.... View more
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 6 months agoHi everyone, the EDC Book Club is back! Please join us on Tuesday 9/24 at noon for an exciting event, a discussion with Carnegie Mellon designer and design theorist Jonathan Chapman about his recent book, Meaningful Stuff. We’ll be focusing on these portions of the book:
Chapters 2 and 5, attached here
A few brief extracts selected…
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EDC Book Club: Meaningful Stuff by Jonathan Chapman
Please RSVP to join the EDC Book Club later this month for a discussion of Jonathan Chapman's new book, Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts. Carnegie Mellon University designer Jonathan Chapman will be joining us for the discussion, together with EDC … Continue reading
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 3 months agoHappy new year, all! As 2025 stretches before us, I’ve been thinking back to books from the past year that will stay with me. One of them is Ruha Benjamin’s recent manifesto on Imagination. “Imagination is a field of struggle, not an ephemeral afterthought that we have the luxury to dismiss or romanticize,” she writes. Best wishes for a year…
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Yes! This looks great! A perfect start to the new year. Book ordered. I’m in..
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Yes! This is sooo important. Thx for sharing.
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 3 months agoMeeting now, please join us!
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EDC Book Club: Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
Please RSVP and join the EDC Book Club for a discussion of Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba’s new book, Let This Radicalize You. Together with EDC curator Anand Pandian, we will read and discuss this new book in light of … Continue reading
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 6 months agoHi everyone! The EDC Book Club meets again this week with special guest Eli Nixon, presenting their new book Bloodtide: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs. We’re partnering with the Vital Matters project on this, please join us Wednesday evening!
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A Book Talk with Eli Nixon: An EDC & Vital Matters Virtual Event
RSVP below and join the Ecological Design Collective and Vital Matters for a conversation with artist, designer, and activist Eli Nixon about their new book, Bloodtide: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs. Nixon's new book is an illustrated … Continue reading
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Noah posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 6 months agoHi All,
I was wondering if we might start a running list of books that we would like to read together for the club. I was thinking that Zoë Schlanger’s Light Eaters and Richard Power’s Playground might be fun reads. Please drop more book recs in the comments!
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Thanks for starting the list Noah. @Anthony and I are planning to do Does the Earth Care by Mick Smith soon…
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Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson (it gets a little technical btw). I’m super interested in what other recommend. The Future of Nothing is free to read online. https://jhtomen.com/the-future-of-nothing/
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Michael Degani replied to the discussion Slow Down by Kohei Saito in the forum EDC Book Club 7 months ago
Reply to Slow Down by Kohei Saito
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/growth-degrowth-kohei-saito-susskind/
thenation.com
The Intractable Puzzle of Growth
For more than a century, the key measure of a healthy economy has been its capacity to grow and yet if production and consumption continues to expand at their current rate we might risk the very health of the planet.
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Susan Kaye Quinn posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 9 months agoJust finished reading THE LIGHT EATERS, a book about the raging scientific controversy happening right now about plant intelligence, and I highly recommend it — would be a great Book Club book or just for your own reading. Super relevant to a novel I’m writing but also a perspective shift in renegotiating our relationship with nature, something…
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 10 months agoHi everyone, a reminder that our Book Club continues this month in a conversation with anthropologist Chloe Ahmann, author of the powerful and compelling new book Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. We’ll be chatting with Chloe about the book at 11am ET on Wednesday, May 29th. Details here, along with a link to…
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EDC Book Club: Futures After Progress by Chloe Ahmann
Please RSVP to join the EDC Book Club later this month for a discussion of Chloe Ahmann's new book, Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. Cornell University anthropologist Chloe Ahmann will be joining us for the … Continue reading
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 11 months ago-
If the reference is opaque, this is a key theme in Anthony’s Against the Vortex which we discussed with him a couple of weeks ago, the recording is live on our site
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Mark Cyzyk posted an update in the group
EDC Book Club 11 months agoInterview with Kohei Saito, author of Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto.
salon.com
Why climate change action requires "degrowth" to make our planet sustainable
Salon spoke with Japanese philosophy professor Kohei Saito about his new book, "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto"
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