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Weaving Lost Traditions: A Comparative Transdisciplinary Reconstruction of a Welsh Cleft Hazel Basket

This study explored the reconstruction of traditional Welsh cleft hazel basketry through a transdisciplinary methodology that combines descriptive and thematic analysis with ethnographic methods. It aimed to document the reconstruction process in detail and compare the outcomes of a volunteer-led initiative with the practices of traditional makers.

Seaweed, Cockles and Sewin: A trip through Coastal WALES

Authors: Sadhbh Horan and Cordula Scherer, Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Sept 2025. In June 2025, our first in-person workshop with the international team of Coastal TALES took place. Having spent the first few days of the meeting in my local Dublin, blessed with good weather and unusually high temperatures, the team were eager to begin the Welsh leg of the agenda.

UNESCO's MOST Forum Paves Way for G20 Policy Action

The world's most pressing challenges, from climate change and inequality to public health crises, require more than just technological fixes. They demand deep social understanding. This critical message underpinned the MOST Forum 2025, the annual flagship event of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme, which convened in Pretoria, South Africa, on 22 September.

Q&A: How to build AI that enhances human and planetary well-being UNESCO BRIDGES' Steven Hartman on data, culture and the ethical challenges of AI

By Richard Harth. While an AI revolution has been quietly in the making for decades, the lightning-fast emergence of large language model AI systems like ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Beyond their everyday use for writing essays, planning vacations or summarizing reams of text, the new technologies promise to revolutionize nearly every facet of the human experience.

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