Blog - BRIDGES

Posted in Blog on Sep 22, 2024.

A future that is ours for the making!

A year ago today, 22 September 2023, I took this picture on my way to the UNESCO offices in New York to meet Assistant Director-General Gabriela Ramos and Wales Future Generations Commissioner Derek Walker to discuss how we could build closer cooperations together focused on futures literacy, foresight and planning (championed by both of my meeting partners) and the humanities-led sustainability science work of the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, which I head up as Executive Director. BRIDGES is anchored in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) programme.

Posted in Blog on Jun 23, 2024.

Transdisciplinary Bridges

The ISC’s discussion paper Looking at the Future of Transdisciplinary Research by Matthias Kaiser and Peter Gluckman is a necessary provocation to a research establishment that, in the aggregate, is not sufficiently meeting the challenges of the Anthropocene and the needs of a post-carbon transition.

Posted in Blog on Jun 18, 2024.

The Timeless Art of Coracle Fishing: Preserving Heritage

In an era where climate change is rapidly altering landscapes and livelihoods, the preservation of cultural heritage becomes crucial for the resilience of communities. The Coastal TALES (Coastal Trans-Atlantic Learning for Engagement and Sustainability) project, spearheaded by the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES (UK) hub at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), aims to address this challenge

Posted in Blog on Jun 18, 2024.

Dreaming as a Research Method

This April I flew to Colombia to meet the Kogui, one of four Indigenous groups that live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, to discuss the design of a collaborative transdisciplinary conservation project they hope to create.

Posted in Blog on Jun 17, 2024.

Palaeoscience Workshop at Princeton

Historians and prehistorians like myself need to work closely with palaeoecologists to learn from each others methods, and to establish working relationships across disciplines.