Monsoon Assemblages is an interdisciplinary enquiry into relations between changing monsoon climates and rapid urban growth in four of South Asia’s largest cities: Chennai, Delhi, Dhaka and Yangon. The project is undertaken at a time when volatile monsoon climates converge with normative city planning and unplanned urban growth to produce fragile futures for urban survival. The aim of the project is to produce knowledge of and design strategies for these urban environments, conceptualised as more-than-human, monsoonal ecologies that operate across multiple scales and through media that are indivisibly natural, social, political and technological.
Monsoon Assemblages is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Grant No. 679873