Co-production Workshop - Sharing Co-production Research Methodologies

Co-producing solutions for Sustainable Cooling in Pune (India) to include narratives from Marginalised Communities

Sustainable cooling uniquely lies at the intersection of urban climate vulnerability, mitigation, and adaptation, holding particular significance for urban marginalised low-income and vulnerable communities that often lack access to modern cooling technologies.

We use co-production as a methodological approach to bring to light the lived experiences of heat stress and cooling needs for an informal settlement in the city of Pune in India.  The co-production approach facilitates the involvement of “diverse types of expertise, knowledge and actors to produce context-specific knowledge and pathways towards a sustainable future” (Norström et al., 2020).

Aligning with this approach, the project brings together academics from diverse disciplines but centres the settlement community members as the primary knowledge holders of the issue at hand.  Participatory narrative enquiry – a methodology that focuses on personal experiences of well-being - is adapted to generate knowledge through repeated interactions between the different actors.  The knowledge thus generated will form a critical piece of the city’s climate mitigation and adaptation challenge and future policies, that otherwise might have been at risk of being overlooked.  We are organising a workshop to share our journey and critical reflections towards adopting and applying co-production as a methodological approach for this project.  We will also delve into the ethical and practical challenges faced during the fieldwork with the objective of fostering deliberation with the attendees.

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Proposed Agenda and speakers (please note that the start time has changed to 9.45am which is different from the original published start time)