PNCA 2025 Symposium: Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sat, 04 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

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Pacific Northwest College of Art | Portland, OR

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Join us for a three-day convening of critical and creative voices exploring ecological thought across disciplines and communities.
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**Save the date. October 2–4, 2025**


Join us for Pacific Northwest College of Art's 2025 Symposium, Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures, a three-day convening of critical and creative voices engaging ecological thought across disciplines and communities. This symposium explores the intersections of environment, art, activism, pedagogy, and identity—with a focus on how ecological futures are imagined, embodied, and enacted through diverse cultural practices and positionalities.

All events are free and open to the public.

Ecological thinking foregrounds the interdependence of all life—human and non-human, material and affective, theoretical and grounded. Beyond Boundaries seeks to foster dialogue around ecology as a generative framework for creating just, embodied, and intersectional futures.

How might we challenge dominant understandings of "Nature"? In what ways do relationships—with environments, bodies, technologies, and communities—inform our ecological imaginations?

This year’s symposium encourages participants to reflect on how ecological entanglements shape and are shaped by lived experience, artistic practice, and political struggle. We are especially interested in work rooted in feminist, queer, trans, Indigenous, Black, and disabled approaches to ecological thought (Alaimo 2010; Tsing 2015; Haraway 2003; Wynter 2003; Clare 2017; Bey 2022).

Events will include keynote lectures. panel conversations, workshops, a group art exhibition and more. Details and full schedule coming soon! RSVP for updates.

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Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 Northwest Broadway, Portland, United States

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