HOMESCAPES
Homescapes make the world we live in?
A case for zooming into the urban South home.
HOMESCAPES takes water as an entry point of an investigation into the homes of the urban South.
It follows water, as it is essential for sustaining everyday life, and goes beyond it into other material and atmospheric components of the home.
Collaborative methodology
Combining multi-modal ethnography with water-quality analysis, we do not treat global south cities as sources of data or outliers but sites of theorization in their own right.
A change in perspective
Cities in the global South are home to most of the world’s population and 70% of the population in these cities LIVES in low-income neighbourhoods. However: we know little about the social AND ecological life within low-income homes in the urban South. And If we do not understand how the majority of humanity lives, in their ordinary routines, we cannot aspire to build better futures.
This research is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) - European Union under Grant Agreement No 101115529. The views and opinions here belong to the authors. They do not represent the European Union or ERC's official positions.
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University
Vening Meinesz Building A, Princetonlaan 8a,
3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University
Vening Meinesz Building A, Princetonlaan 8a,
3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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