Ecological Design Collective | Shrobona Dipti | Favorites https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/members/dipti/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of Shrobona Dipti's saved posts. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:18:54 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 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 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 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 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 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…

]]> 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 b73921f3b693204e90d8d755bc7a54e7 Tory Stephens posted an update: ✨Our 4th Imagine 2200 climate fiction collection is […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6547/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:31:12 -0500 ✨Our 4th Imagine 2200 climate fiction collection is finally here & free to read!

Featuring 12 stories from around the globe, this collection offers visions of a hopeful future.

Link to the collection in the comments!

]]> 1 e7a13fb687a6da561fcbdac74faa0edb Anand Pandian posted an update in the group EDC Book Club: Happy new year, all! As 2025 stretches before us, I’ve […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6518/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:13:33 -0500 Happy 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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]]> 2 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 9d171033a3880310f5d0f33644046b1d Robin Gunkel replied to the discussion Daylighting the Jones Falls in the forum Jones Falls Futures 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 Jones Falls Futures 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

]]> 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 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 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.

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