The BRIDGES Flagship Hub at Arizona State University advocates and creates space for the meaningful engagement of traditionally marginalized voices and perspectives as co-teachers and co-learners in justice-driven sustainability education across the lifespan. It does this by supporting, co-designing and co-facilitating humanities-led educational and action-oriented programs/initiatives which leverage the collective wisdom and strengths of humans and nature embedded across disciplinary, cultural, and experiential knowledges.
We’re a dynamic group of individuals who are passionate about what we do and dedicated to delivering the best results for our clients.
Executive Director of the BRIDGES Coalition. His role is based at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.
Joni Adamson, Founding Director, BRIDGES Flagship Hub & Director, Humanities for the Environment, North America, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, President’s Professor of Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University
Sreya Ann Oommen, BRIDGES Flagship Hub Coordinator, Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Humanities, English Literature, Island Studies, and Energy Humanities, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University.
Liron Arieli, Communications Coordinator, Scholar of Sustainability Studies, and Political Science, responsible for communication, administration, coordination, scheduling, and event planning at the UNESCO-BRIDGES Flagship hub, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University
This report offers a refreshing, radical alternative to an inevitably doomed future, where youth-led inquiry explores the possibility of "reworlding" our systems of governance through the power of collective imagination.
Earth Day 2026: ‘The Future We Build’ event held at Arizona State University's Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. Panel: Global Futures Conversation Topic: Living in times of accelerated global change The conversation illuminated emerging challenges and opportunities at a time when the world order is being rewritten at a rapid pace.
Celebratory news from the BRIDGES Flagship Hub at ASU. At the 2026 Humanities for the Environment (HFE) Distinguished Lecture, Professor Hsinya Huang, a Distinguished Professor of American and Comparative Literature at Taiwan’s National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), was honoured as the latest recipient of the Seres Puentes Award.
News from the BRIDGES Flagship Hub on an innovative project: "From Sea to Sky" - A hybrid panel series setting out to dissolve the perceived boundaries between two of the world's most distinct landscapes. The initiative aims to create a shared intellectual atmosphere where desert and island studies can "breathe the same critical air." At the heart of the series is the concept of “archipelagic thinking.” This framework, popularised by French poet and writer Édouard Glissant in his 1990 work Poétique de la Relation, prioritises the relationships between sites that might otherwise seem disconnected. Rather than viewing islands or deserts as isolated bubbles, this approach suggests they are actually woven together by shared currents of History, Ecology, and Imagination.
A transformative initiative at Arizona State University is equipping the next generation with the tools to actively design the future. Storying Just Futures (SJF) is a Youth-centred initiative of Humanities for the Environment and UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, that empowers young people to imagine, articulate, and co-design the worlds they desire.
