Cooling practices
Over the past decades, urban sprawl in tropical cities started intersecting with the issue of limited access to adequate cooling technologies in high population density areas. What to do about heat without a air-conditioning unit or a fan?
The Cool Infrastructures team in Jakarta are studying the use of public spaces in low-income neighbourhoods as an emergent social practice. Using a mixed-method approach, we aim to investigate cooling as a social practice that brings together, at certain times of the day, heterogenous groups of people.
What do such spaces look like? Who uses them? When? How is the neighbourhood reconstituted as a result of these emergent practices? The project aims to make reccomendations for urban policy.