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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.
We invite you to read the Outcome Report of the ‘Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance’ UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab: Reworlding Planetary Governance: YOUTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN DECLARATION ON FUTURE GENERATIONS. The goal was not to predict what may come next, but to practice different ways of seeing, sensing, conceptualizing, and shaping what might be possible by imagining and developing plausible scenarios for the future. What if the very act of learning could be planetary? What if a university could be a place not only of knowledge, but of responsibility, reciprocity, and regeneration? And what if governance made space for those who have never been allowed to speak—rivers, trees, future generations, and the systemically unheard?
News from ASU: $50M gift creates Global Institute for the Future of Energy at Arizona State University.