Ecography is the study or method of engaging with language in and of our environment. As a workshop and etymologically, ecography is composed of the syllables eco- and -graphy:

Ecography encompasses ecology, which is the study of relations between beings in their physical environment, and is inherently with psychogeography, which is the study personal place-ness, "exploration of urban environments that emphasizes interpersonal connections to places."

As a workshop, ecography dealt with identifying, surfacing, and visualizing concepts embedded in students’ socio-ecological psychogeography through experiments in type design. Therefore, typography was brought into the mix, which is the art of arranging type to form and manipulate written language and—in this case—letterforms themselves.

Ecography explored what it means to shorten the distance between our screens and our local environment by observing, gathering, exploring, and learning basic type design as a framework to think about where we are and how we work more critically. Working in a hybrid model, the class found parallels for URL objects IRL, then developed letterforms to embody those ideas.

Ecography was a workshop run by Miguel Gaydosh in Bianca Ibarlucea’s Graphic Design 4 class at the University of Connecticut’s School of Fine Arts, in Storrs, CT, from February to March 2023.