“From Sea to Sky" Initiative
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.
