Fostering cutting-edge research to reimagine human-environment interactions.
The Human Environments Workshop (HEW) is a research laboratory co-convened by Heather Millar, Noah Pleshet, and Daniel Tubb at the University of New Brunswick.
We takes an infrastructural approach to environments, ranging from wild spaces to digital domains, while addressing questions of environmental justice, power, ownership, and resource control.
Looking north towards Suaita, Santander at a human, cattle, and cane landscape in the Central Colombian Andes, April 2024. Photo: Daniel Tubb.
An incubator of ideas
HEW serves as an incubator of ideas and a hub of knowledge, providing an home at the University of New Brunswick for collective research and outreach aimed at rethinking the present and imagining alternative futures.
Addressing Urgent Changes
We seek to understand and address the urgent changes of our time in the context of a planetary crisis affecting humans and non-humans alike.
Nurturing Researchers
We are committed to nurturing current and future generations of researchers who rethink the conditions for hope.
Bridging Domains
Our work bridges the natural and the digital, the built and the designed, fostering dialogue across disciplines and communities.
Research and Practice
HEW brings together specialists in humanistic environmental research and practice from a variety of educational backgrounds. HEW is unique in Atlantic Canada while providing a venue for rethinking the Atlantic world and beyond.
Climate Teach-In
Local educators, staff, and students in thinking about, talking about, and building communities committed to action on climate change.
