Stories from the Futures of Congo Basin
Author: Dr Nsah Mala. Stories from the Futures of Congo Basin is a project by BRIDGES Hub for Planetary Wellbeing, University of Cologne, Coordinator and 2023 NGFP Judges’ Choice Fellow Dr Nsah Mala.
Author: Dr Nsah Mala. Stories from the Futures of Congo Basin is a project by BRIDGES Hub for Planetary Wellbeing, University of Cologne, Coordinator and 2023 NGFP Judges’ Choice Fellow Dr Nsah Mala.
What does it mean to write about disaster in a world shared with trees, beetles, moss, and microbes? On July 14 025, a group of students, scholars, and writers stepped into the forest—and onto the page—to explore how fieldwork becomes fiction, and how storytelling can carry multispecies voices through fire, threat, and transformation.
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David recently played host to an extraordinary two-day gathering that brought together some of the world’s most thoughtful voices in sustainability, peacebuilding, and intergenerational dialogue. Organised by the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES International Programme Office (IPO) at UWTSD, the inaugural Bridging Futures: Connecting Today’s Decisions to Tomorrow’s Needs took place at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on 16 July 2025. The event welcomed a diverse audience of policymakers, young leaders, Indigenous representatives, educators, and members of the public.
Author: Sophie Spooner. At the Bridging Futures event, Kogi Ambassador, Jose Manuel Sauna Mamatacan, Translated by Paula Rodriguez, delivered a special cultural address, sharing Kogi wisdom about relationships with the natural world, and a powerful ritual which captured the presence of all who came together and experienced this as One.
News from Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) The Volkswagen Foundation is funding ZOOGESTURES, a new project on interspecies learning and technical invention in early human evolution with 1.3 million euros over four years. The project is co-led by MESH researcher Dr. Shumon T. Hussain (Cologne), philosopher and anthropologist of technology Dr. Johannes Schick (Siegen) and cognitive primatologist Prof. Dr. Cat Hobaiter (St Andrews, UK).