Event

In this seminar, we immerse ourselves in three very different estuarine wetscapes of Mumbai, India to examine how city residents, who have long been marginalised, read the city’s wet terrain, sense changing urban climates, and act amidst climatic uncertainty. By dwelling in the stories of these lesser known, wet worlds, we demonstrate how the climate crisis is already being understood and inhabited in the city. Fishers and indigenous residents sense and navigate both the crises arising from slow environmental decline that permeates the everyday, as well as those of extreme events and spectacular disasters. These modes of habitation both greatly expand and contradict the narrow ways in which the climate crisis is framed in the city’s Climate Action Plan, and demand a substantive reframing of how planners and politicians pursue climate action in the city.

AGENDA

1pm Welcome and Introductions

1:15pm Opening Remarks 

Dilip Da Cunha, Columbia University

1:30pm   Framing Urban Climates: 

Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania

Lalitha Kamath, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Rohit Mujumdar, School of Environment and Architecture

Discussant: Amita Baviskar, Ashoka University

3:30pm Fabricating Urban Futures

Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania

Lalitha Kamath, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Rohit Mujumdar, School of Environment and Architecture

Discussant: Keisha-Khan Perry, University of Pennsylvania