Futures of Listening: Water Knowledges from Two Cities
Room KCT4 King's College and MicrosoftTeams.
In this session we will discuss the early stage findings and reflect on the experiences of undertaking the Futures of Listening: Water Knowledge from Two Cities project. The talk will bring together collaborators from the University of Aberdeen as well as project partners – Forum Lenteng (Jakarta) and Urban.Koop (Istanbul) – to examine the process of developing and undertaking field trips in January and May of 2025. This project has worked to foster empathic platform for listening to water knowledge from vulnerable local communities in Kampung Kalibata Pulo (Jakarta) and Şahintepe (Istanbul), each of 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. The project has developed a cross-breeding methodology with experts in hydrology and water security, sound studies and technology, participatory and experimental filmmaking, 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. The project has engaged a range of methods – including traditional research practices such as interviews to art workshop, sound walks and documentaries which capture the lived experiences of those in the project’s chosen communities.
- Speaker
- Professor Suk-Jun Kim & Dr Christina Ballico & Guests
- Hosted by
- University of Aberdeen
- Venue
- King's College
- Contact
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For further information or for the link to Microsoft Teams, please contact Dr Christina Ballico at: christina.ballico@abdn.ac.uk.