Research teams convene in Nairobi for second annual workshop
Researchers from India, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and South Africa gathered in Nairobi to share emerging field material — health histories, spatial data, and storylines from 21 settlements across nine cities — and work through methods for advocacy across scales.
Research teams convene in Nairobi for second annual workshop
Researchers from India, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and South Africa gathered in Nairobi from 19–23 May 2025 for the If Cities Could Speak project's second annual workshop. Over five days, teams shared emerging findings from the field — health histories, spatial data, and storylines from 21 settlements across nine cities — and worked through methods for advocacy with stakeholders at local, national, and international scales.
Building on the team's first in-person meeting in Bangalore in 2024, the Nairobi convening marked a significant moment in the project's development: country teams presented field material together in one room, surfacing both the particularities of each site and the cross-country patterns beginning to emerge. Discussions ranged from how residents articulate climate and health risk in their own registers, to how geospatial data can be made legible to the communities it represents.
