First fall meeting of the EDC Book Club. Read and discuss Jonathan Chapman's work next week!

Join the EDC Book Club later this month for a discussion of Jonathan Chapman’s new book, Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts. Carnegie Mellon University designer Jonathan Chapman presents his exciting new framing of sustainable design, centered around the idea of “experience heavy, materials light.” Chapman will be joining us for the discussion, together with EDC curator Anand Pandian.

Tour some of Baltimore's most innovative community gardens: an EDC Grounding with Liz Lamb, Robin Gunkel, and Carissa Aoki.

Interested in urban agriculture and its role in Baltimore communities? Join us for a tour of the community farms in Broadway East, Oliver, and Johnston Square. These farms are managed by The 6^th Branch, a non-profit organization originally founded by military veterans. Unlike city farms where gardeners rent separate plots, these farms were all initiated with input from their communities, and neighbors are welcome to come harvest food at any time. Weekly farm stand offerings are likewise free to the neighborhoods.

Check out the EDC's 2024-2025 itinerary, Reimagining Land, for more on our Baltimore-based programming, including these monthly Grounding events. You can also share your own events there too!

Take a page from the horseshoe crabs. Eli Nixon presents their new book!

Join the Ecological Design Collective and Vital Matters for a conversation with artist, designer, and activist Eli Nixon about their new book, Bloodtide: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs. Nixon’s new book is an illustrated proposal and manual for activation (and complication!) of a new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs, with accompanying field notes to help navigate the quagmires and vistas of primordial futurizing through reparative returns, habitat restoration, cardboard transformation, time encapsulation, feasting, impossible dancing, parading and much more.

Missed our last ECO-ARTS event? Fear not. Check out the complete interview with artist Asad Raza.

Raza speaks to us about his life and artistic career with a special focus on his project for Manifesta 15 Barcelona. The artist talks of hanging fabrics in a Barcelona power station moving in a wind like kelp, the way that water and soil can remake the interiors of a museum space, an outdoor installation that would amplify the sound of the river nearby rather than compete with it, the sublime powers and attractions of natural forces beyond the human.

The EDC needs you! Become an Air Curator.

The EDC began as an idea here in Baltimore in the early days of the pandemic, and has since evolved into a network of hundreds of creative researchers, designers, writers, artists, and activists around the world. If you've been intrigued by this space and think you might have the energy to help build it further, consider joining our "Air Collective," as one of the curators of our virtual space.

What's new in the neighborhood (and beyond)! Check out what our community is up to.

• Climate Week in New York City! Woo-hoo! Friends of the EDC, Climate Imaginarium, are hosting several events on Governors Island from September 21st to September 29. Check out their full event calendar.
• Morningside Lights throws its annual lantern festival on September 21st at 8 pm. Experience a night of illumination and wonder on NYC's Upper West Side!
• On September 26th, from 4 pm to 6 pm, Stevenson University holds a reception for a powerful exhibition: "The Me Before The War No Longer Exists: Ukrainian Portraits." Read more about the exhibition and reception.
• On October 7th, at 6:30 pm, The Center For Fiction is holding a round table on climate fiction:  "Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future."