A Year of Reimagining Land: A Roundtable Retrospective
May 22 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Join us on May 22nd, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Blueprint Cafe, 3120 St Paul St, Baltimore, MD 21218, for a special roundtable gathering to reflect on a transformative year of in-person and virtual events exploring the theme REIMAGINING LAND. Over the past year, the Ecological Design Collective has hosted a series of community “Groundings” across Baltimore—immersive events that invited participants to consider land as more than territory or property, but as a living, breathing network of relationships between humans, nonhumans, histories, and futures.
This culminating roundtable, taking place at Blueprint Cafe on May 22nd from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, features a dynamic group of thinkers, artists, and organizers who have shaped and inspired this year’s programming: Robin Gunkel, Kristine Roome, Nicole Labruto, Anand Pandian, Bill Harvey, and Kenya Miles. Together, they will reflect on how land—particularly urban land in Baltimore—can be reimagined not as a commodity but as a commons, a site of repair, kinship, and ecological design.
How do land-based practices of storytelling, artmaking, healing, and history help us imagine more just and reciprocal relationships with place? This conversation is both a reflection and a call forward—a chance to share what has been learned, unearthed, and seeded, and to consider what may yet emerge.