This short animation based on our research, presents the gendered and intersectional impacts of Covid-19 in India, through the eyes of Mala and Lakshmi – two friends in Bengaluru who care for each other through voice notes throughout the lockdown.
Read MoreIn this podcast Ayona Datta, Professor of Human Geography, thinks about survival infrastructures in India, and their collapse or dysfunctionality in the context of the mass exodus and precarity of migrant workers, forced to forsake the city because of India’s lockdown.
Read MoreAyona Datta argues that our access to urban history, is now determined by algorithms that are programmed to recognise the past as a repository of maps and images on the web, rather than a political process that is contested and negotiated in the current times.
Read MoreIntimate infrastructures is a way of seeing and understanding how infrastructure, in their absence, disconnectedness and exclusions are woven into the intimate material and social relationships of urban life. These intimate relationships with infrastructure can be perceived as forms of violence or can actually materialise as Violence Against Women (VAW).
Read MoreExplore the 'Gendering the Smart City' Project #AanaJaana gendered data in smart cities Story Map created in partnership with our participants ‘Khadar Ki Ladkiyan [Khadar Girls]', societal partners Safetipin and Jagori, and institutional partner the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi in India.
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