Hello,
The Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC), Socratus Foundation, and HeatWatch India are organising an event on indoor heat and women doing care and domestic work in overheated homes at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru, on 6 June at 4 PM.
The event features a screening of SFC’s audio-visual exhibit, Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible: Indoor Heat, Unpaid Domestic Work, and Women’s Resilience, which uses thermal imaging footage and stories from homes in low-income neighbourhoods in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad to document how women living in heat-vulnerable settlements experience, negotiate, and endure extreme heat. Here is a short snippet.
The screening will be followed by a discussion on indoor heat, its gendered impacts, and HeatWatch India’s research on heat stress among domestic workers in Bengaluru. Joining the conversation will be Geeta Menon, Co-founder of Stree Jagruti Samiti and Secretary of the Domestic Workers Rights Union.
We also have a walkthrough of the Heat Experience Centre, an immersive exhibition exploring urban heat, climate resilience, and community-led climate action, which the Socratus Foundation put together at the NGMA.
Please RSVP here - we hope to see you there.
