A Global Network of Observatories

The UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Flagship Hub at ASU brings humanities, diverse knowledge systems, and communities together to advance just and sustainable futures.

From Sea to Sky is a Spring 2026 hybrid panel series that uses archipelagic thinking to place island and desert studies in dialogue, examining how seemingly discrete landscapes are bound by shared histories, ecologies, and imaginaries.

Create the Change (CTC), supported by a President’s Special Initiative grant, addresses the moral, cultural, political, and economic complexities that hinder progress toward planetary health—challenges that cannot be solved by technology alone. The program mobilizes the social sciences and humanities in partnership with sustainability sciences to confront issues such as disinformation, social and environmental injustice, power imbalances, and cultural barriers.

Drylab 2023 is a Science-Art project of Arizona State University. From May 13 until June 10, 2017 eight Arizona State University students, pursuing a mixture of art and sustainability degrees, enacted a very near future in a remote location in the Mojave Desert.

The Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa will introduce students to historical and contemporary understandings of the environment by drawing on and bridging disciplines in the Colleges of the Arts and Humanities (A&H), Languages, Linguistics and Literatures (LLL), Natural Sciences (NS) and Social Sciences (SoSc).

For the past ten years, work in this area has sought to foster and develop Pacific Islander Eco-Literature.