Filip Ryba is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School for Humanities (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) and an activist. His doctoral project entitled ‘Being-with-crisis in Contemporary Beirut as a Fabulation about Futures in Climate Crisis’ involves fieldwork in Beirut and an exploration of alternative ways of imagining the climate crisis in academic and non-academic narratives. He focusses on possible grassroot ways of dealing with crises situations under the circumstances of a disappearing statehood and institutional support. I believe that such ways may provide a base for imagining futures different than those portrayed by international institutions. As an activist, he is involved in humanitarian aid on the Polish-Belarusian border and in pro-refugee initiatives. He has experience in working with people on the move and refugees.