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Getting Beyond Zero Through Green Building

Getting Beyond Zero: A Conversation with Bruce King on Embodied Carbon, Natural Building, and Ecological Design EDC curator Mike Degani sat down with green builder…

Michael Degani December 8, 2022
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Life-Centered Design Panel: November 17, 2022

Life-Centered Design: Beyond Anthropocentrism and White Supremacy in Design In response to a confluence of challenges – a global pandemic; increasing economic disparities; systemic racism…

Lee Davis December 8, 2022
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Zero Waste to Zero Emissions in Maryland

When it comes to sustainability initiatives, it is incredibly easy to find oneself stuck in the seeming *hopelessness* of it all. Sometimes, we need some…

Louisa Benatovich November 28, 2022
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A Manifesto for the Just City

We use manifestos to express our desire for POSITIVE CHANGE. Manifestos publically declare ideas, values, and objectives. In architectural and planning education, we need architects,…

Cristina Murphy November 25, 2022
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THE SUSTAINABLE URBAN VILLAGE

An exemplary central city neighborhood displaying medium-density homes, based on sustainable design principles, to inspire and shape modern urban living in Baltimore. Imagine that an…

Cristina Murphy November 25, 2022
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Development without Displacement: The Fall 2022 Practicum

The Sustainable Design Practicum gives students at Johns Hopkins University and other local educational institutions the chance to join the collective struggle to build equitable…

Environmental Justice Workshop September 7, 2022
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Urban Aquaculture for Climate Justice and Local Food Sovereignty

Check out this Baltimore-based project by a few EDC members and Black Yield Institute, a Black-led think tank and collective action network that addresses food…

Nicole Labruto August 23, 2022
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Future Habitats

This project is mostly just an idea still, with some resources to draw on and build from. I don’t know where it’s meant to go,…

Anand Pandian August 18, 2022
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Future Habitats

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This project is mostly just an idea still, with some resources to draw on and build from. I don’t know where it’s meant to go, beyond this brief mission statement below, and I welcome any ideas and suggestions. What the project “does” remains aspirational, as none of this has happened yet (though the grammatical tense implies otherwise). Still, I’m hoping things may begin to happen sometime soon, and I’d be glad to find some company to make such things happen. I’m thinking in particular about building bridges between experiments happening in different places, such as India and the United States. The image is a photo I took one evening on a street in Chennai, India, in 2020. And here’s a brief snapshot of a mission I wrote later that year.

“Future Habitats envisions and enables human settlements that support sustainable and responsive living. We organize collaborative workshops in sustainable design and small-scale experiments in ecological dwelling, by bringing together local communities and public agencies, creative professionals, and social researchers. We develop media works and public events to convey the insights of marginal environmental cultures, and neglected traditions of interspecies life. We nurture alternative urban futures that meet the needs of diverse human, animal, and plant communities, grounded in a spirit of social and environmental justice.”


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