Next Week in Person! Ghost River Tour

Join the Ecological Design Collective on August 27th from 6-7 pm ET at Wyman Park Dell for a tour of Baltimore’s forgotten waterway! Artist and designer Bruce Willen gives a 0.75 mile walking tour of Sumwalt Run, a river that once ran through the heart of Baltimore and now runs hidden beneath our feet. Discover this river’s secret history and connect with other environmental enthusiasts as we walk the path of this long-lost river. Spaces limited, RSVP soon!

Check out our new vision for the EDC's Baltimore-based programming for 2024-2025

This year EDC curators are mapping out an itinerary of events and experiences in "Reimagining Land" in Baltimore. How is land inhabited and experienced here? Why is it organized the way it is? And how might we create more equitable and sustainable relationships with this land in the future? Explore these questions and more with us in the coming year. Read more and stay tuned!

A lot has been happening on the EDC platform this month. Check out what our members have been posting!

• Climate fiction from writer Logan Dreher, "Earthbound."
• Venice chefs are fighting invasive species by putting them on the menu: Blue Crab Invasion Upends Italy's Culinary Traditions and Ecology.
• An upcoming symposium on the encroachment of neoliberal design into urban spaces: Narrating the Neoliberal Agenda: Tales of democracies, communities, and public spaces.
• An ongoing workshop series on queerness and climate change: Queer Climate Cabaret Series.
• And much more... Please take a look and share what you've been reading and thinking.

A warm welcome to our new EDC Coordinators

Johns Hopkins University graduate students Jessie Croteau and Noah Kulick will be keeping you up to date on all of the exciting new things happening at the EDC this year. Please reach out with any ideas!

A reminder! There is still time to take our summer survey for 2024. We’ve imagined the EDC platform as an online gathering space for like-minded mingling, critical discussions, and virtual interactions at a remove from the data-mining platforms that exploit our attention and divide our communities. As we continue to improve and realize our vision for the collective, we’d appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to share your experiences via our summer survey.