EcoCARE (2026-2028)

EcoCARE (Ecologies of Care: Multispecies Design and Circular Community Economies in Peri-Urban Settings) is a 2026-2028
Eindhoven University of Technology project (led by Dr. Oana Druta) funded by the Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership.

From March 1, 2026 onwards, Wendy Wuyts works as part-time postdoc at TU Eindhoven at the Netherlands. She will work 4 days a week. Other days are spent for volunteer work (e.g. writing(with)plants sessions) and free time.

leer mee – in nederlands

She will live in a tiny house and rent temporary public space in the Netherlands. She will keep a care budget diary in Dutch about living in a wooden circular tiny house in ‘s Hertogenbosch, and about the multispecies interactions… and share a synthesis via a separate monthly newsletter.

In 2027-2028, she will organise workshops and walk shops all about multispecies interaction and justice (e.g. forest bathing) in Eindhoven, Almere, ‘s Hertogenbosch and other places in the Netherlands.

You can subscribe to her EcoCARE dagboek via this link or by scanning this QR code, if you want to co-learn about multispecies design and care work and/or be informed about free workshops and walk shops.

Update: 29 January 2026

Intro of the bigger project

Urban expansion and human-centered development have caused biodiversity loss, habitat fragmentation, and climate risks. EcoCARE addresses these challenges through three key approaches:

commons-based ecological stewardship,
multispecies urban design
transformative pedagogies

The project will establish living labs in post-industrial, suburban, and peri-urban neighborhoods across 5 European countries to experiment with participatory design that integrates more-than-human perspectives. Focus areas include wetlands, rewilding, climate-adapted food biodiversity, and forest farming.