Ecological Design Collective | Anand Pandian | Activity https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/members/anand/activity/ Activity feed for Anand Pandian. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:33:46 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 f2c0e3627ebb3deb990035a655fc709e Anand Pandian posted an update: So glad to share this new conversation about how […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7694/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:16:05 -0500 So glad to share this new conversation about how academics and activists can work together in the classroom and beyond, a dialogue I had with Shashawnda Campbell of the South Baltimore Community Land Trust about our environmental justice collaborations in Baltimore.

As Shashawnda says so compellingly here, “This work isn’t just about finding a…

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Teaching and Organizing for Environmental Justice in Baltimore

Baltimore’s residents of color are twice as likely as white residents to develop cancer from toxic exposure, and suffer some of the highest asthm...

]]> 0 61c4cb62fef4e091dc87b843842ffa63 Anand Pandian started the discussion Jones Falls Watershed-Healthy Environment, Healthy Communities Grant Program in the forum Baltimore's Jones Falls https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/jones-falls-watershed-healthy-environment-healthy-communities-grant-program/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:31:07 -0500 Jones Falls Watershed-Healthy Environment, Healthy Communities Grant Program

  • “Do you have an environmental action or large-scale restoration project in the Jones Fall Watershed that needs funding? 🌳
    The Chesapeake Bay Trust and Blue Water Baltimore are excited to announce the Jones Falls Watershed Healthy Environment, Healthy Communities Grant Program is now open!

  • Applicants can request funds for project types that fall…

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Jones Falls- Healthy Environment, Healthy Communities Grant Program - Chesapeake Bay Trust

The G3 grant program supports design projects, financing strategies, and/or implementation of green street projects. The goal is to help communities develop and implement plans that reduce stormwater runoff, increase the number and amount of green spaces in urban areas, … Continue reading

]]> 0a3d6ee4f1bb3f2dc7cd989e3a9ef263 Anand Pandian started the discussion Planetary Health and Environmental Justice in Baltimore in the forum Planetary Health https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/planetary-health-and-environmental-justice-in-baltimore/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:18:55 -0500 Planetary Health and Environmental Justice in Baltimore

Good to see key south Baltimore community allies of the UC in the mix in this event recap from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health, in a conversation co-moderated by EDC curator Nicole Labruto.

https://planetaryhealth.jhu.edu/event-highlights/11-18-25-november-2025-planetary-health-dinner-recap/

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11/18/25: November 2025 Planetary Health Dinner Recap | Institute for Planetary Health

11/18/25: November 2025 Planetary Health Dinner Recap | Institute for Planetary Health

]]> 203a59b0f601dc84df4c5d791d2669ab Anand Pandian posted an update: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7599/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:59:13 -0500 0 09b98eba72cff2ab7c4282e82f998495 Anand Pandian posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=13929 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:35:47 -0500 0 cf8999f18cd8e830cf2499b780a38db9 Anand Pandian started the discussion Planetary Health profile of our EDC graduate fellow in the forum Planetary Health https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/planetary-health-profile-of-our-edc-graduate-fellow/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:38:35 -0500 Planetary Health profile of our EDC graduate fellow

Hi all, check out this great new JHIPH profile of EDC graduate fellow Lindi Shepard @Lindi_S . In her own words: “Planetary Health doesn’t endorse a specific solution to environmental challenges, but instead offers a space for people to cross-pollinate their expertise and share their lived experiences. As an educator, I’ve learned that what we…

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Lindi Shepard | My Site

Lindi Shepard | My Site

]]> 3e61d5cd271c14d3f04440d70004a46e Anand Pandian posted an update: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7509/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:05:20 -0500 1 08b1a0c372c601865d507e43b80a97d1 Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7474/#acomment-7476 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:33:06 -0400 Welcome Aashka!

In reply to - Aashka Shah posted an update

Hi everyone, I’m Aashka Shah, the EDC’s new program assistant. I’m an undergraduate freshman majoring in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. Some of my interests include […]

]]> f4eb1595f4448cedc235fd1995f23bfe Anand Pandian: Gratitude for our terrific EDC Graduate Fellows, https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7460/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:11:12 -0400 Gratitude for our terrific EDC Graduate Fellows, @Lindi_S and @Siyu who are keeping everything going this year in such a creative and engaging way. Here’s the community engagement table they curated for the Planetary Health workshop at JHU yesterday afternoon. Take a close look: so many thoughtful elements! Antidotes to Toxicity is our EDC…

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]]> 0 da46f0bcc34ba13ecca4e69efea2bf58 Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7399/#acomment-7405 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:14:46 -0400 Looks amazing, thanks to the hosts and I wish I could have been there!

In reply to - Siyu Xie posted an update

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us for our collage workshop “Cut, Paste and Ground.” Together, we created a space where we could suspend our minds, follow the intuitive wisdom […]

]]> ea4d5c1f52b8f63eadfee054950097e3 Anand Pandian started the discussion Strangers Need Strange Moments Together in the forum EDC Book Club https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/strangers-need-strange-moments-together/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:43:07 -0400 Strangers Need Strange Moments Together

I’m enjoying this new book by the Daily Tous les Jours art and design studio based in Montreal. The spirit of it feels really related to my recent book, Something Between Us. From the introduction: “It may feel strange to smile, dance, or make music with a stranger these days. But connecting with others through joy, bringing bodies, minds… Read more

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Our first book: Strangers Need Strange Moments Together, Set Margins’ Publications | Daily tous les jours

Daily tous les jours creates collective experiences for public spaces. Since 2010, the art and design studio based in Montreal invites humans to play a critical role in the transformation of their environment.

]]> daba914d8e6856a37390969e61e26e78 Anand Pandian posted an update: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7231/ Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:22:10 -0400 0 65c5e46e3fa5568b8dbe5782d915a271 Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7213/#acomment-7229 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:53:36 -0400 Thank you Tory!

In reply to - Tory Stephens posted an update New Climate Fiction Short Story
The Sunflower Covenant


When Dee is transferred to the swanky Wicker school, their education in conformity is quickly derailed by another […] ]]> 7abfb2bc504193b8a83968a3d08286f6 Anand Pandian posted an update: Beautiful and compelling read by writer and editor […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7200/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:53:11 -0400 Beautiful and compelling read by writer and editor Jessica Reed. “Hunters and vegetarians – both judged by others, both right – are more alike than either would admit. It is a complex comparison, but consider this: both think deeply about what they eat.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/31/hunting-personal-essay

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I’m a liberal who loves hunting. Allow me to change your mind

When I killed my first mule deer, I felt deep reverence for the animal. It showed me hunting can be more honest and sustainable than eating factory-farmed meat

]]> 0 6cc73ea76ef6a1e6e0ee77164f9a74ee Anand Pandian posted an update: In this new op-ed on the value of neighborliness for […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7113/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:41:23 -0400 In this new op-ed on the value of neighborliness for the Baltimore Sun, I suggest that we might think of migratory birds and other species too as neighbors of ours; it matters that they have a place to return each year, that we hold a space for them beside us.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/06/the-decline-of-neighborliness-in-america/

]]> 0 81bf6f1e2d0a0f23b9c1445988c7474d Anand Pandian posted an update: "Even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7101/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:21:02 -0400 “Even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited. And even if we fail, at the very least, we didn’t contribute to the problem.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

]]> 0 05a4e0a139269017c96f9973f360cd71 Anand Pandian started the discussion Experiments with pod living in Japan in the forum Green Building https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/experiments-with-pod-living-in-japan/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:56:24 -0400 Experiments with pod living in Japan

“Kurokawa was the youngest founding member of the Metabolist movement, a group of Japanese architects formed in 1960 that fused ideas about megastructures with those of organic biological growth. They imagined a networked world of interconnecting modular structures that could multiply and spread across the planet like a great…

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‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic

They had portholes, cutting edge mod cons – and the ultra luxurious models even came with a free calculator. As Japan’s beloved Nakagin Capsule Tower resurfaces, we celebrate an architectural marvel

]]> 9501a65efb4d5b6b4125efff24664d7d Anand Pandian posted an update: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7019/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:59:38 -0400 0 d1b8ad33f7f3446abd5406121c7cd8df Anand Pandian posted an update: “Rats, who live communally, band together for survival. […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6999/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:05:59 -0400 “Rats, who live communally, band together for survival. They look out for each other. Humans haven’t really nailed this yet.“

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/23/new-yorks-anti-rat-activists

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Know thine enemy: my ‘rat walk’ with New York’s rat czar made me rethink vermin

An estimated 3 million rats live in New York City – so members of the ‘Rat Pack’ are working to ease human-rodent relations

]]> 0 33dbf4091dd4411dc4703ccdc7b7f03d Anand Pandian posted an update in the group ECO-ARTs: Fascinating exhibition at the Staten Island Museum in […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6948/ Thu, 29 May 2025 15:18:20 -0400 Fascinating exhibition at the Staten Island Museum in NYC, which includes this gorgeous work by Baltimore-based Selin Balci in collaboration with mold spores.

“Breakdown: The Promise of Decay examines the vibrancy of decay. This interdisciplinary exhibition explores notions of time, waste, and the in-between. Breakdown shines a light on the…

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]]> 0 13daa7dd1651a4288e6d988be2c97a6c Anand Pandian posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12423 Tue, 20 May 2025 12:32:32 -0400 0 1461626a49f3d559870a89f62e6644ea Anand Pandian posted an update: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6913/ Fri, 16 May 2025 11:40:07 -0400 0 73d82d78d9271e4ea85506343d18455b Anand Pandian posted a new exhibit. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=exhibit&p=12332 Thu, 15 May 2025 09:37:59 -0400 a330b7d32c37e0893aa383ee3f47bc9a Anand Pandian posted an update in the group ECO-ARTs: The gorgeous and captivating Tapestry of Constellations […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6867/ Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:45:39 -0400 The gorgeous and captivating Tapestry of Constellations for Future Migrations — salvaged metal trampoline rim, recycled blue velvet clothing and lace curtains, found orange reflectors and river beads — by symbiocene visionary @jordan Tierney, on view now at the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Baker Artist Award exhibition.

]]> 0 766450af1ba584f7e1856dfa00abf93b Anand Pandian: “The problem, which has evident emotional overtones, will […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6864/ Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:27:14 -0400 “The problem, which has evident emotional overtones, will have to be worked out” — Unlucky Clovers series by @brucewillen based on the 1960 Baltimore East-West Expressway Study, on view now at Current Space Gallery in Baltimore

]]> 0 dbadc371d5daf27e1013c1557ab33047 Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6842/#acomment-6854 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:36:45 -0400 Please add to our event calendar thanks!

In reply to - Kristine Roome posted an update in the group ECO-ARTs

EcoArts Live Event! Join artist Asad Raza’s “High Line Plant Walk” at Frieze New York on Saturday, May 10th. We’ve been talking online, now come out and […]

]]> d6d527f67aaef7040f7fa2bca039768e Anand Pandian posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12076 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:35:23 -0400 0 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 473cdf3d51bcd980184e0dfc4e356d6d Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/co-design-panel-discussion/#comment-107 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:04:41 -0400 1000a8c3bb2c5adfa32ad462ad6cf3d2 Anand Pandian posted an update: “It’s not just a bridge that cars drive over,” says […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6813/ Sun, 06 Apr 2025 18:27:21 -0400 “It’s not just a bridge that cars drive over,” says Pratt. “This is a real extension of the Santa Monica mountains ecosystem. And to me, that’s hopeful – even a freeway is redeemable.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/la-wildlife-freeway-crossing

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‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles

A wildlife crossing across the 101 freeway will connect two parts of the Santa Monica mountains for animals

]]> 0 c50d8dd7430a7e0f5ffe53497996e044 Anand Pandian posted an update: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6803/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:50:31 -0400 0 353327911d63afe8a62aa94770889bfe Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: "This workshop revisits the past 150+ years […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6801/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:53:17 -0400 “This workshop revisits the past 150+ years of anthropological and ethnographic research on relationships among human lifeways, cultures, and environments. How can the errors and insights of earlier paradigms help us grapple with shifting, unpredictable ecologies today? Experts from Anthropology, History, Science Studies, Indigenous Studies,…

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Conference Announcement: “Environmental Anthropologies: Pasts, Presents, Futures”

The HAR editorial team is pleased to announce the program for HAR’s first conference, “Environmental Anthropologies: Pasts, Presents, Futures,” which will take place at Yale Unive…

]]> 0 34ef76dd217f943e70870fe2cd214170 Anand Pandian posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=11829 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:43:26 -0400 0 51e96469b9fbf24af5420385bdfe3a8a Anand Pandian posted an update: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6790/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:35:27 -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 06f50bbe631a52f523e120c52570ac99 Anand Pandian posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=11419 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:04:04 -0400 0 5de5db02714b8403e0c9176195785e4e Anand Pandian posted an update in the group ECO-ARTs: Wonderful to see our collective exhibition featured in […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6761/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:24:22 -0400 Wonderful to see our collective exhibition featured in this Baltimore Banner review. “What will future anthropologists say about us? Our garbage, collected from Baltimore parks and wild spaces along the Jones Falls River and Chesapeake Bay, tells the true…

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Four March art exhibitions that foster a connection to place

These art exhibits will inspire you to connect with Baltimore and Maryland at large, BmoreArt writes.

]]> 1 749eea97197af217756497dd732bde5b Anand Pandian posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=11357 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:31:40 -0500 0 7a823514aabe3cecc79c03e8cf92cea1 Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6732/#acomment-6748 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:56:01 -0500 Wow

In reply to - Michael Degani posted an update

“There is a legend in Burma stating that swarms of male dragonflies gather to join in choruses of high-pitched tones to court their mates. The ones that don’t succeed in mating […]

]]> 1a537d7b68c0fee1d7553786c20e7c1a Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6712/#acomment-6745 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:42:48 -0500 @Mike thanks for this!

In reply to - Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building A new essay I wrote for MOLD magazine. “As so much seems to be falling apart at our feet, the task of finding structures and forms to keep life going […] ]]> 6d54ef954a5146c3464e3bf16c69e764 Anand Pandian posted an update: https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6736/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:13:20 -0500 0 52c4f6cdb7ae0cf3e911f13f8971521e Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6712/#acomment-6729 Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:58:58 -0500 @Mike I feel like there’s a whole treatise implicit here on the loss of *textures* in modern architecture and construction and habitation. Has someone written that book already? If not, maybe you could, Mike!

In reply to - Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building A new essay I wrote for MOLD magazine. “As so much seems to be falling apart at our feet, the task of finding structures and forms to keep life going […] ]]> 58ef9044289c42f20fee5e998c6114bd Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building: A new essay I wrote for MOLD magazine. “As so much seems […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6712/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:15:22 -0500 A new essay I wrote for MOLD magazine. “As so much seems to be falling apart at our feet, the task of finding structures and forms to keep life going looms ahead. What might spaces that acknowledge our vulnerability to decay look like?”

https://thisismold.com/series/metabolism/eaten-away-by-ants

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Eaten Away By Ants - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

From the Venice Architecture Biennale to construction studios in Ghana, anthropologist and writer Anand Pandian explores how architects and designers are creating in tandem with decay.

]]> 4 96e89057d231ac766023fe8b0cabd260 Anand Pandian posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/terramusica/#comment-106 Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:50:11 -0500 a4186ee8aafeba986816d102f28f170c Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Planetary Health: Planetary health folks, please join us on Sunday! […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6700/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:32:49 -0500 Planetary health folks, please join us on Sunday! “This workshop event with artist and herbalist Alyssa Dennis (@Lyss) will provide participants an opportunity to connect the exhibition experience with the medicinal gifts of the land in an embodied way, giving participants a chance to collectively share what they are experiencing as we strive…

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What the Senses Tell: A Plant Medicine Perspective

The Peale Museum's new exhibition on The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come is an invitation to extend our senses into the landscape around us and the other futures it may promise, to turn our … Continue reading

]]> 0 55d6121f1be2c2d77340da85d181c9bf Anand Pandian posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=11015 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:48:29 -0500 0 76cf3c600421e62ae2fb9719ecb7a546 Anand Pandian posted an update: “I’m trying to see what I can be fighting for now. Where […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6680/ Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:35:08 -0500 “I’m trying to see what I can be fighting for now. Where can I go?” He said. “I never could go to the state [government]. The federal [government] was my only option. And now it’s not.”

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‘It is going to be terrible’: a senior in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ prepares for Trump’s dismantling of hard-won environmental progress

Robert Taylor recently lost his wife to a long-term illness he linked to chemicals produced by a nearby plant, and now the Trump administration is preparing to scrap pollution reforms in the area

]]> 0 8955368e8263ce24e4a62bb9adb14728 Anand Pandian started the discussion What the senses tell - a plant medicine perspective in the forum Planetary Health https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/forums/discussion/13582/ Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:32:35 -0500 What the senses tell - a plant medicine perspective

Planetary health folks, please join us on Sunday! “This workshop event with artist and herbalist Alyssa Dennis (@Lyss) will provide participants an opportunity to connect the exhibition experience with the medicinal gifts of the land in an embodied way, giving participants a chance to collectively share what they are experiencing as we strive… Read more

]]> ac159e354fae3ad503256faf445443bc Anand Pandian posted an update: Winter creek. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6658/ Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:01:40 -0500 Winter creek.

]]> 0 f5ecb6441654a78ceae347072a0124ed Anand Pandian posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=10895 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:57:57 -0500
The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come

Baltimore folks, please join us for the opening of a speculative environmental exhibition at the Peale Museum called The Future of Here: A Glimpse of…

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