Futures of Listening: Water Knowledge from Two Cities

Futures of Listening: Water Knowledge from Two Cities aims to establish and promote an empathic platform for listening to water knowledge from vulnerable local communities in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Istanbul, Turkey. To promote these underrepresented groups to identify water-related risks, share the communities’ experiences and impact of maladaptive policies.
Project status
Ongoing
Departments
International

Futures of Listening: Water Knowledge from Two Cities aims to foster an empathic platform for listening to water knowledge from vulnerable local communities in Kampung Kalibata Pulo (Jakarta) and Şahintepe (Istanbul), which demonstrate prolonged water-related risks due to climate crisis like flooding, water scarcity, sanitation issues, and ineffective or maladaptive water policies. These highly vulnerable and fractured urban poor communities rarely engage in the government's water policy design and implementation processes. Collaborating with Urban.Koop (Istanbul) and Forum Lenteng (Jakarta), the project develops a cross-breeding methodology with experts in hydrology and water security, sound studies and technology, participatory and experimental filmmaking, urban government and asset-based community building, and urban design practice to examine gaps between existing policies and the communities’ perceived risks and experienced impact and to explore ways in which their local knowledge and socio-economic, cultural, and emotional connections to water can be brought to the policy design and implementation.

Research Team: Dr Suk-Jun Kim, University of Aberdeen; Dr Alp Arisoy, Urban.Koop; Dr Christina Ballico, University of Aberdeen; Dr David Haro, University of Aberdeen

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