As part of the Pedestrian Space ‘Global URBAN HEAT Media Lab’ and network in development, we are recording our conversations with incoming collaborators around the world, as well as students pursuing academic internships related to the project. As part of that, we met with Alondra, an urban development practitioner who just completed my Master’s in Urban Climate and Sustainability (Erasmus+ MUrCS) this month.
Alondra has four years of experience designing streets and public spaces across Indian cities, with a lot of stakeholder-facing work with local councils and communities. Through her master’s, she learned a lot about urban heat and climate adaptation in cities, which is the focus of her work. She will be based in Kochi, India, from December 2026, and is keen to explore the lived heat-adaptation strategies of informal outdoor workers (fish market vendors, ferry operators, street vendors) in this coastal, water-linked city, with the goal of developing something transferable to informal-sector and community learning in other contexts too.
More about the ‘Global URBAN HEAT Media Lab’ here: