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
Montréal, Quebec
Host institution. The Milieux Institute's Speculative Life Research Cluster and Ethnography Lab anchor the network's methods and digital creations, and the Black Box hosts the Alter/COP Reboot.
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
Home of the BRIDGES Flagship Hub, which advises policy makers at UNESCO and the UN. Hosts the Year 6 Symposium and the Biosphere 2 field intensive.
Ashoka University
Sonipat, India
Partners on the Aravali and Kalpavalli field intensive and on research into community consultation in ecological restoration.
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
Earth science expertise on the Crawford Lake core, and the largest concentration of collaborators outside the host. Hosts the Year 2 Symposium.
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Hosts the Year 4 Symposium and Summer Institute, and contributes to the Alter/COP Rewrites and the Biosphere 2 cluster.
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario
Hosts the first and last Alter/COP Rewrites, in Years 1 and 7, and the Year 5 Symposium.
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Home of Environmental Humanities South, which leads the Xolobeni research cluster and brings policy experience across the African Union.
York University
Toronto, Ontario
Leads on Caribbean environmental justice research. Hosts the Year 3 Symposium and the Year 5 Alter/COP Rewrite.
Museums & Botanic Gardens
Institutions that hold colonial collections and curate climate complexity for the public.
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Saint Ann's Garrison, Barbados
Field site and partner. Co-develops the Garrison exhibition and the curatorial research into the subterranean history of the site.
Dumbarton Oaks
Washington, DC
The Plant Humanities Lab publishes peer-reviewed plant narratives produced across the network's field sites.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
United Kingdom
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.
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Ontario
Curatorial expertise on public programming that holds the complexity of anthropogenic climate change.
Conservation & Community Organisations
Groups working directly in the landscapes and with the communities our field intensives study.
Conservation Halton
Burlington, Ontario
Stewards Crawford Lake. Its Indigenous Governance body guides the Year 1–2 field intensive and the locative media installation.
Ecological Restoration Alliance
India
Authors of the Ecological Restoration Charter (2022), which frames restoration as a conversation between communities and the land.
Toxics Link
India
Environmental research and advocacy on pollution and the communities most exposed to it.
Les Amis du Champ des Possibles
Montréal, Quebec
Brings community stewardship of an urban wild into the network's thinking on lived sustainability knowledge.
Policy Hubs
Routes from our research into UNFCCC, UNESCO and African Union policy processes.
Future Earth
Montréal, Quebec
Routes network findings into international science-policy forums, including the UN's Earth-Humanity Coalition and UNESCO.
Publishing & Creative Practice
Technical and editorial capacity for digital creations, performance and open-access publishing.
Concordia University Press
Montréal, Quebec
Publishes the Speculative Life Almanac as a serial, open-access digital creation.
New School of the Anthropocene
United Kingdom
An 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.