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Audrey Verma - Geography, Politics and Sociology
High temperatures have created new axes of inequalities between those who can keep afford to keep cool and those who cannot. Housing is one of several areas in which these inequalities play out: Policy and design in UK have yet to catch up with rising temperatures. Where focus has been on behavioural changes to mitigate over-heating, this fails to consider the intersecting inequalities, spatial realities and socio-legal arrangements that configure day-to-day experiences of residential over-heating and severely restrict cooling possibilities. This proposal builds on initial work undertaken in summer 2020, partly in collaboration with BBC Panorama (Wild Weather) and separately on Applied Comics.