Tag: heat perception
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A typological study of slum settlements in Hyderabad
Exploring the Impact of Housing Quality and Settlement Form Typologies on Heat Vulnerability in the city’s informally built areas Heat and the city’s built environment intersect and interact at different scales. A granular understanding of built-environment conditions of informal settlements is required to inform interventions and policies. Current policy documents including the Hyderabad’s Heat Action…
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Measuring Heat and Respondent Perceptions: Instrumentation
Climate change has significantly contributed to intense heat waves in our cities, particularly affecting informal settlements. Hyderabad, one of the hottest cities in India, has witnessed its residents endure severe heat stress, as temperatures often soar to 40°C. Consequently, our project took on to comprehend the heat-related challenges faced by people living in informal settlements.…
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Studying Heat in Informal Settlements: A Note on Methods
The Cool Infrastructures project aims to understand all the ways in which heat plays a role in people’s lives. In particular, the project asks how people who live in informal settlements, whose location on the “grid” is tenuous, deal with, adapt to, and conceive of heat. Questions and Data In order to start answering these…
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The City that Cannot Sleep: Heat in Low-income Neighbourhoods
People in Singareni Colony – partly an off-grid urban informal settlement and partly a VAMBAY housing colony in south-east Hyderabad – live in houses that feel like blazing ovens. Even getting some quality sleep becomes a far cry in the summer. Sandwiched between different kinds of heat-trapping material and walls of congested houses without ample…
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Building Context for Our Research in Singareni: Who Are Our Respondents?
An integral component of conducting an urban heat study involved comprehending the heat perception of residents, their coping mechanisms, the actions they take, and how they adapt to extreme climate conditions. In the context of the project, the research team implemented the Time and Activity Perception survey in Singareni Colony, Hyderabad, commencing toward the end…
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The Great Indian Kitchen: Narratives Around Cooking in Heat in Singareni Colony
Contributor: Anushree Gupta What is your idea of a conventional kitchen? The kitchen is an important aspect of every household. It makes a house complete. For me, I picture it as a place where the aroma of home-cooked meals blends with a homemaker’s effort to put the food on the table. A fairly small but…
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The ‘Everyday Social Life’ of an Off-grid Basti
From engaging in everyday banters while sitting under a tree, to taking important life decisions while chatting at a tea-stall, social interactions with friends, neighbours, and relatives, form an important part of the everyday lives in Singareni Colony. Some kinds of socialising activities are related to conducting and attending life events and social events, while…
