North American Observatory

Integrate the Humanities

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Global Humanities Partners

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Global Humanities Affiliates

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Global Humanities Projects

Each of our observatory's projects and activities seek to integrate the human sciences (humanities, social sciences, and arts) into all research and outcomes focusing on sustainability, environmental justice and food sovereignty.

Our Main Hub
Location

We engage in cross-regional collaborations with partners throughout North America and across the HfE observatory network globally.

Featured Exhibits

ECOTarot

The ECOtarot deck enables us to perform “Climate Future” readings. With the deck, Adriene Jenik invites others to join her to “channel” scientific facts and modeled projections related to human-driven climate disruption through the layered form and meanings of tarot.

Tidal Timespace

Tides, especially ones connected to estuaries and mudflats, perform polyrhythmic writings and erasings; concealing and revealing their ghostly spectral traces at ebb tide.

Research
Projects

Our projects illustrate how the human sciences (humanities, social sciences and arts) are changing to meet the challenges of the 21st century as they contribute significantly to the development of social, economic, and science policy addressing environmental issues in civil and academic life.

Drylab 2023

Drylab 2023 is a Science-Art project of Arizona State University. From May 13 until June 10, 2017 eight Arizona State University students, …

Food Sovereignty and Syndemic Project

For two decades, scholars in the arts and environmental humanities have been researching and teaching courses that focus on climate. More recently, …

Inter/Desert Dialogues

A virtual roundtable series at Arizona State University (ASU), brings together artists, writers, scholars, activists, land managers, and others to inspire respect …

Coastal Conservatory

The “Coastal Conservatory: Listening for Coastal Futures” is an initiative of the University of Virginia that is integrating the arts and humanities …

Dinner 2040

“Dinner 2040” follows a community collaboration in Maricopa County, Arizona, charting and planning the “future of food” twenty years in the future. …

Community Members, Researchers and Scholars.

Our affiliates recognize that historical models, cross­cultural comparisons, and images of plausible futures, that often take the form of stories, can powerfully transform social values, recalibrate understanding of foundational principles of justice and sustainability, and rewrite inaccurate narratives about human relationships to and interdependencies with ecosystems and nonhuman species.