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.
The book "Plants Matter: Exploring the becoming of Plants and People” Edited by Dr Luci Attala and Professor Louise Steel. University of Wales Press; is part of the “Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology” series. Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, colour, sound and textures.
On 4 August 2022, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) hosted the launch of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition.
UNESCO article on the formation of the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, which explains the underpinning of BRIDGES as pioneering a “critical understanding of sustainability that emphasizes the diversity of its subjects, objects and timelines” studying “complex socio-ecosystems as a web of meanings and interactions, inherently multilayered and pluralistic.
