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.

In 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.

Ayona 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.

Intimate 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).

Explore 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.

Find our more about our ESRC funded free public exhibition titled 'Learning from Small Cities' and accompanying conference "(Re)thinking Smart, (Re)building Scale" at the Building Centre, London.

NEW #OPENACCESS PUBLICATION: Curating #AanaJaana: Gendered authorship in the ‘contact zone’ of Delhi’s digital and urban margins

Our Urban Pulse review article (written with Arunima Ghoshal, Anwesha Aditi, Arya Thomas and Yogesh Mishra) for Urban Geography "Apps, maps and war rooms: on the modes of existence of “COVtech” in India" has been published. This article emerges in response to the proliferation of technologies that seeks to track, trace and manage the COVID19 pandemic in India and is part of our project on Provincialising the Smart City.

NEW #OPENACCESS PUBLICATION: Curating #AanaJaana: Gendered authorship in the ‘contact zone’ of Delhi’s digital and urban margins

Our Urban Pulse review article (written with Arunima Ghoshal, Anwesha Aditi, Arya Thomas and Yogesh Mishra) for Urban Geography "Apps, maps and war rooms: on the modes of existence of “COVtech” in India" has been published. This article emerges in response to the proliferation of technologies that seeks to track, trace and manage the COVID19 pandemic in India and is part of our project on Provincialising the Smart City.

In 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.

Ayona 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.

Intimate 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).

Explore 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.

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.

Intimate 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).

Explore 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.

NEW #OPENACCESS PUBLICATION: Curating #AanaJaana: Gendered authorship in the ‘contact zone’ of Delhi’s digital and urban margins

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.

Our Urban Pulse review article (written with Arunima Ghoshal, Anwesha Aditi, Arya Thomas and Yogesh Mishra) for Urban Geography "Apps, maps and war rooms: on the modes of existence of “COVtech” in India" has been published. This article emerges in response to the proliferation of technologies that seeks to track, trace and manage the COVID19 pandemic in India and is part of our project on Provincialising the Smart City.

In 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.

Ayona 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.

Explore 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.