Building on conversations that began in 2023 during Deconstructing the Boundaries: A Future of Land & Food Resilience and continued in 2024 with Deconstructing the Boundaries: The Land Fights Back, this symposium will use ecological justice and rematriation as the lens through which to focus on the historical severance of Black, Brown and Indigenous knowledge and power as a result of colonization.

The symposium will include a day of panel conversations, interactive art activations, and the unveiling of newly commissioned work by artist Daniel Minter and writer Arisa White. Deconstructing the Boundaries: Tending to Communities will inspire sustainable futures and create a platform for innovative, community-driven environmental justice.