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Aashka Shah posted an update: Hi everyone, I'm Aashka Shah, the EDC's new […]

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:30:01 -0400

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 reading, writing and graphic designing for fun! I’m very excited to step into this role and explore my passion for designing online.

Looking forward to working with…

Alyssa Dennis posted an update: Sharing an article a wrote about the sacred feminine and […]

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:00:31 -0400

Sharing an article a wrote about the sacred feminine and the mythopoetic dimensions of plant medicine, story, symbol and our deep evolutionary connection to land. Enjoy! https://ecliptaherbal.com/blog/f/the-land-speaks-iona-plant-medicine-the-sacred-feminine

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The Land Speaks: Iona, Plant Medicine & the Sacred Feminine

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” -Albert Einstein

Jessie Croteau posted an update: EDC Featured Artist Opportunity – Winter 2026The […]

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:42:30 -0400

EDC Featured Artist Opportunity – Winter 2026

The Ecological Design Collective is accepting submissions for its Winter 2026 Featured Artist series. Selected artist will receive a $200 honorarium and a three-month feature on the EDC website (Jan–Mar 2026).

Submit 8 images, artist statement, and bio by November 15, 2025. Notification by December…

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Open Call: Ecological Design Collective Featured Artist — Winter 2026

The Ecological Design Collective (EDC) invites submissions for our Winter 2026 Featured Artist series. This is a quarterly opportunity to share your work at the intersection of art, ecology, and design with an international community of peers, researchers, and curators … Continue reading

Jessie Croteau started the discussion Call for Submissions: LITTER| Antidotes to Toxicity in the forum Opportunities

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:00:44 -0400

Call for Submissions: LITTER| Antidotes to Toxicity

Call for Submissions: LITTER| Antidotes to Toxicity
The Ecological Design Collective seeks contributors for its Fall/Winter 2025-2026 issue of Litter. We are interested in writing, visual art, speculative design, and hybrid works exploring how to imagine or enact responses to toxicity—social, environmental, political.

Submit by November 28, 2025.…

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Call for Submissions: Antidotes to Toxicity | Litter Fall/Winter Issue

The Ecological Design Collective invites contributions for the Fall/Winter 2025–2026 digital magazine Litter, centered on the theme “Antidotes to Toxicity.” This edition explores how we might identify, imagine, and design responses to both literal and figurative toxicities from polluted environments … Continue reading

Lindi Shepard posted an update: Thanks to all who attended our grounding event at […]

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:28:40 -0400

Thanks to all who attended our grounding event at the Baltimore Museum of Art. We explored an incredible exhibition, Black Earth Rising, guided by the knowledgeable Antoinette Roberts, who lead us in deeply considering the interplay of materials, subjects, and the natural environment across these artists’ works. A special thank you to EDC…

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Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:22:10 -0400

Alyssa Dennis posted a new event.

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:17:23 -0400

EDC Grounding: Cut, Paste, Ground - A Collage Exhibit & Workshop for Collective Healing

In times of crisis—pandemics, social and political unrest, and ongoing climate collapse—many experience both individual and collective grief that comes from watching systems fail, the…

Lindi Shepard posted a new event.

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:48:30 -0400

EDC Grounding: Join us for a Guided Tour of Black Earth Rising at BMA

Join the EDC for our September Grounding Event where we will gather for a guided tour of Black Earth Rising, an exhibition that celebrates the…

Lynn Neuman posted a new event.

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:46:50 -0400

Lindi Shepard posted a new event.

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:33:23 -0400

Siyu Xie posted a new event.

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:01:18 -0400

Lindi Shepard posted a new event.

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:13:45 -0400

Ecological Design Collective Social

Join the EDC to kick off the 2025-2026 year with a social gathering at Union Craft Brewing. Whether you’re a long-time member or a new…

Lindi Shepard posted a new event.

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:33:55 -0400

Jessie Croteau started the discussion CFP: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time in the forum Opportunities

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:38:17 -0400

CFP: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time

How might we chart the generative possibilities of decomposition? Often indexing danger, disease, or disgust, decomposition has also emerged across multiple disciplines as a process that upends theorizations of agency, archives, temporality, and offers the promise of re-composing damaged worlds (DeSilvey, 2017; Hage, 2021; Lyons, 2020;…

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Lindi Shepard posted an update: Greetings EDC!I am excited to join this growing community […]

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:41:56 -0400

Greetings EDC!

I am excited to join this growing community as one of your new coordinators!

My journey has been shaped by many places, including the wetlands of New Jersey, where I was raised; the river systems surrounding Athens, Georgia; the coastal breezes of Santa Marta, Colombia; resilient urban ecosystems across New York City; and the…

kirsten posted an update in the group Acoustic Ecologies: Each week, I'll highlight a composer or sound artist […]

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:08:04 -0400

Each week, I’ll highlight a composer or sound artist who works closely with ecological sounds. Today, I’d like to highlight Nyokabi Kariũki. Kariũki is a Kenyan composer and sound artist whose work frequently features East African ecological sounds and stories, in gorgeous combination with the sound worlds of East African instruments and speech…

kirsten posted an update in the group Acoustic Ecologies: "What does a melting glacier sound like?" Check out […]

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:16:00 -0400

“What does a melting glacier sound like?”

Check out this op-doc from the New York Times on Ludwig Berger’s efforts to preserve the sounds of dying glaciers.

The sounds he’s collected are remarkable — They sound like they are being produced by animals, insects, or synthesizers, sitting between the organic and the mechanical. He argues that…

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