Author:
Despoina Tsimprikidou

BRIDGES Coalition Project Mapping of Humanities-led Sustainability Science

Drawing on the networks of the coalition’s founding partners and member organisations, this effort has been undertaken to provide a proof of concept for a signature project now being designed by BRIDGES to make community-anchored and humanities-driven sustainability science, education and action more visible and accessible to the wider scientific community, as well as actionable to policymakers and society more generally.

BRIDGES Coalition Project Mapping of Humanities-led Sustainability Science

In June 2023 the BRIDGES Coalition began scoping humanities-led sustainability science projects from different regions around the world that address the realities of vulnerable communities and regional territories impacted by social and environmental pressures.  Drawing on the networks of the coalition’s member organisations and founding partners (UNESCO, CIPSH and Humanities for the Environment), this effort… Continue reading

Plants Matter: Exploring the becomings of plants and people

Hub Directors’, Dr Luci Attala and Professor Louise Steel, new book “Plants Matter: Exploring the becoming of Plants and People” is being featured on the Spring and Summer Catalogue of the University of Wales Press. Luci and Louise co-edit the series “Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology” of which this is the third book. Plants Matter… Continue reading

Session led by the the UK Hub of BRIDGES at the International Conference on Education for Human Security

The World Academy of Science and Art (WAAS) has partnered with UNESCO BRIDGES and other partner organisations, including the Global Futures Laboratory of Arizona State University, SDSN Europe, and the World University Consortium to bring to you the International Conference on Education for Human Security. The following panel is co-sponsored by WAAS and the BRIDGES… Continue reading

BRIDGES and ASU Global Futures Laboratory-led Session on Youth, Knowledge and Climate Action at the International Conference on Education for Human Security

The World Academy of Science and Art (WAAS) has partnered with the BRIDGES Coalition in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformaitons programme and other partner organisations, including the Global Futures Laboratory of Arizona State University, SDSN Europe, and the World University Consortium to bring to you the International Conference on Education for Human Security. The following… Continue reading

Munekan Masha: Reviving Water in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

A project devised and led by a group of indigenous people from Colombia who decided to teach conventional environmental scientists their previously unrecorded methods of land regeneration.

BRIDGES UK Hub at the Learning Planet Festival

The UNESCO BRIDGES Hub at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David contributed to the UNESCO BRIDGES sessions at the Learning Planet Festival with the following two events.

University of Wales Trinity Saint David Hub Launch

The UK Hub of the UNESCO BRIDGES Coalition at University of Wales Trinity Saint David launched  in an event that brought together academia, community projects, art, gaming, and indigenous knowledge in The Reading Room of the Alex Building in Swansea, on 2 November 2022.

BRIDGES UK Hub Launch

The UK Hub of the UNESCO BRIDGES Coalition at University of Wales Trinity Saint David launched  in an event that brought together academia, community projects, art, gaming, and indigenous knowledge. The launch event, entitled E(e)arth, took place in The Reading Room of the Alex Building in Swansea, Wales on the 2nd of November 2022. The launch introduced the aims, values… Continue reading