Category: Project

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.

Storying Just Futures (SJF) program invites students and youth leaders to create fair and compassionate futures. This initiative aligns with ASU’s Changing Futures campaign, aiming to encourage future changemakers and enhance community resilience.

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.

This project is creating a multimedia space that provides a platform for people to tell their own stories, in their own ways, about what extinction means and how it matters in their lives and places.

This interdisciplinary environmental humanities project focuses on the proposed raising of the Warragamba Dam wall in the lower Blue Mountains in NSW, Australia.

What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and other creatures?

This project aims to uncover the diverse perceptions, knowledges and practices shaping kangaroo-human relations in Australia, and to produce inter-disciplinary knowledge towards more equitable human-wildlife futures.

Biology and culture are co-dependent, mutually reinforcing, and inseparably intertwined. Biological and cultural diversity face tremendous threats, and now more than ever we need innovative approaches, new thinking, and concerted efforts to provide appropriate solutions.

Industrial processes are uncoupling life from death, diminishing death’s capacity to channel vitality back to the living. Colonial-capitalist logics continue to naturalize the exploitation of natural resources for human ends and the subjection of humans to racialized hierarchies of worth.

For two decades, scholars in the arts and environmental humanities have been researching and teaching courses that focus on climate. More recently, they have been focusing on the links between climate, environmental injustices, food insecurities and health disparities.

A virtual roundtable series at Arizona State University (ASU), brings together artists, writers, scholars, activists, land managers, and others to inspire respect for arid environments and the people, plants, animals, histories, and geologies that make them up.

The signature project at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, this project informs the different inquiries that take place at the Centre.

Today’s environmental challenges exceed the ability of individual and fragmented research strategies.

The aim of the project is to build “scale literacy” (Horton 2019), to generate a more nuanced and holistic understanding of the relationship between the effects of climate change and the intensification of injustices in the social, political and cultural spheres.

Collaborative Sustainable Innovation co-designing small-scale fisheries governance approaches

CONCHA is a multidisciplinary project that employs methodologies from different disciplines to address its main objectives.

4-OCEANS aims to assess the importance of marine life for human societies during the last two millennia, up to the age of fishing under steam-power.

A modern lifestyle is connected with safe, healthy and tasty food. Seafood is increasingly a popular choice, especially after the sushi revolution of the last couple of decades in western Europe and the emergence of many celebrity chefs.

"Stories of the Land" introduce animals, foods and policies in relation to farming and agricultural productions in Taiwan and other Pacific islands by inquiring into their colonial past and influences.

"Indigenous Ecologies" examines how the indigenous people in the trans-Pacific context forge practices that invoke the concepts of traditional knowledge, native science, resilience and foodscape, based on the principle of International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI).

"Island and Ocean Ecologies" investigate place and space from the perspective of the Oceanic peoples in the Pacific, to challenge the borders of nation states and to facilitate relationships between indigenous peoples of the Pacific islands.

The “Coastal Conservatory: Listening for Coastal Futures” is an initiative of the University of Virginia that is integrating the arts and humanities into an investigation of how we might create new ways of experiencing, understanding, and ‘hearing’ the dynamics reshaping coasts.

Using the interdisciplinary methods and approaches of the environmental humanities, we are investigating the problems and futures of the Great Barrier Reef within the context of the broader oceanic issues impacting our globe including coral bleaching, species extinction, depletion of fish, declining health and changing chemistries of sea water, and loss of human habitats and cultures.

In 1909 a balloonist photographed the Mer de Glace in the Alps from the air, creating a uniquely detailed visual record of the glacier.

ICECHANGE undertakes a systematic analysis of descriptions of the natural world drawn from the literature and history of Iceland for the period ca. AD 800-1800.

The North Atlantic Marine Mammal Project (NSF # 1503714, Assessing the Distribution and Variability of Marine Mammals through Archaeology, Ancient DNA, and History in the North Atlantic) uses the transdisciplinary tools of history, saga studies, archaeology, ancient DNA (aDNA), and marine mammalogy to reconstruct economic contributions of cetaceans and pinnipeds across premodern Iceland, Greenland, North America, and Orkney, ca. 800 – 1500 CE.

Bifrost Online is an international, open-access channel promoting education for sustainability and climate change awareness.

The PLuS (Phoenix-London-Sydney) Alliance project is creating, enabling and deploying innovative research and education linkages across three globally-focused universities to contribute to a sustainable future by collaborating in the areas of sustainability, global health, social justice, technology and innovation.

The River (El Río) is a documentary film by Juan Carlos Galeano. The film is a journey, both mythological and affectionate. Spectacular images bring the audience’s attention to ecological wisdom about the spiritual belief systems of Amazonians.

Environmental Rephotography” is exploring how visually mapping time, change and experience through the practice of repeat photography can contribute to deeper understanding of environmental change.

The Council on the Uncertain Human Future is a sustained conversation among twelve distinguished scholars and artists whose personal commitments and professional expertise qualify them to consider at a deep level the future of the planet and humanity in relationship to climate change and environmental degradation.

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

"The Archive of Hope and Caution" is a collection of stories and videos about frontline communities dealing with environmental justice and sustainability issues.

The Realm Aquatic. Imagining, representing and understanding the Underwater World, c. 1740-2014. This project between Humanities, Arts, Ecology and Science scholars at the Universities of Sydney, Stanford and Vanderbilt commenced on a modest scale in 2013 and has already seen several joint conferences, colloquia and Great Barrier Reef research expeditions.

"Life Overlooked" maps the relations of humans to other "overlooked" species.