The network
Partners
Every partner shaped the objectives before the grant was written. Their expertise sets what the research can ask, and where it can go.
Universities
Research capacity in critical sustainability studies and transdisciplinary environmental humanities, across four continents.
Concordia University
Host
Montreal, Quebec
Host institution. The Milieux Institute's Speculative Life Research Cluster and Ethnography Lab anchor the network's methods, digital creations and the Alter/COP Reboot at the Black Box.
York University
Toronto, Ontario
Hosts the Year 3 Symposium and the Year 5 Alter/COP Rewrite; leads on Caribbean environmental justice research.
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario
Hosts the Year 1 and Year 7 Alter/COP Rewrites and the Year 5 Symposium.
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
Earth science expertise on the Crawford Lake core; hosts the Year 2 Symposium.
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Hosts the Year 4 Symposium and Summer Institute.
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
Home of the BRIDGES Flagship Hub; hosts the Year 6 Symposium and the Biosphere 2 field intensive.
University of Cape Town
Cape Town
Environmental Humanities South leads the Xolobeni research cluster and brings policy experience across the African Union.
Ashoka University
Sonipat, Haryana
Partners on the Aravali and Kalpavalli field intensive and community consultation research.
University of the West Indies
Cave Hill, Barbados
Regional partner for the Saint Ann's Garrison field intensive.
Queen Mary University of London
London
Geography and geology-of-race research feeding the Kew cluster.
Museums & botanic gardens
Institutions that hold colonial collections and curate climate complexity for the public.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond, London
Field site and partner. Brings collections expertise, the Net Zero Palm House and Carbon Garden programmes, and a public reckoning with its own colonial heritage.
Barbados Museum & Historical Society
Saint Ann's Garrison, Bridgetown
Field site and partner. Co-develops the Garrison exhibition and curatorial research on the subterranean history of the site.
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Ontario
Curatorial expertise on public programming that holds the complexity of anthropogenic climate change.
Dumbarton Oaks
Washington, DC
The Plant Humanities Lab publishes peer-reviewed plant narratives produced across the network's field sites.
Conservation & community organisations
Groups working directly in the landscapes and with the communities our field intensives study.
Conservation Halton
Milton, Ontario
Stewards Crawford Lake. Its Indigenous Governance body guides the Year 1–2 field intensive and the locative media installation.
ERA: Ecological Restoration Alliance India
Delhi
Authors of the Ecological Restoration Charter (2022); guides research on community-led restoration.
Toxics Link
Delhi
Environmental research and advocacy on pollution and vulnerable communities.
Les Amis du Champ des Possibles
Montreal, Quebec
Brings community stewardship of an urban wild into the network's thinking on lived sustainability knowledge.
Amadiba Crisis Committee
Eastern Cape
Community organisation leading opposition to sand mining on the Xolobeni coast; collaborator on the Year 5–6 field intensive.
Policy hubs
Routes from our research into UNFCCC, UNESCO and African Union policy processes.
Future Earth (Canada Hub)
Montreal, Quebec
Routes network findings into international science-policy forums including the Earth-Humanity Coalition and UNESCO.
Environmental Humanities South
Cape Town
Policy and research hub for the habitability framing; leads Xolobeni knowledge mobilisation.
BRIDGES Flagship Hub
Tempe, Arizona
UNESCO-linked hub advising policy makers; partner on Biosphere 2 and on white paper dissemination.
Publishing & creative practice
Technical and editorial capacity for digital creations, performance and open-access publishing.
Milieux Institute
Host
Concordia University, Montreal
Technical home for locative media, AR and performance work; hosts the Alter/COP Reboot in the Black Box.
Concordia University Press
Montreal, Quebec
Publishes the Speculative Life Almanac as a serial open-access digital creation.
New School of the Anthropocene
London
Independent school rethinking environmental education outside the university; partner on the Kew cluster.
The network is still growing
We are actively looking for organisations working on habitability, restoration, colonial collections and climate governance.