This 5-year-long project aims to explore Bangkok’s wicked urban problems through a novel conceptual lens termed “ec(h)otoning,” which builds upon and critically extends the ecological concept of ecotones. An ecotone, traditionally defined as a zone of transition or interaction between two distinct ecological systems, is recognised for its biodiversity, productivity, and dynamic spatial and temporal characteristics. However, this project innovatively shifts the term from “ecotone” to “echotone” to emphasize the reverberations and ongoing resonances between human and nonhuman entities, cultural and natural processes, spatial and temporal dimensions, and the movements of emplacement and displacement in urban ecologies. In our project, the echo evokes multiple voices, beings, materialities, technologies, and a myriad of policies and practices that respond back and forth—absorbing, rippling, rolling, waving, and weaving together to produce subtle adjustments within a restless urban environment.

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