Project Guidebook by IMUCP 2025–26 student team, along with community partner YUVA and supported by UTIF, advances an Inclusive City Climate Action Planning framework, enabling collaboration between city governments, civil society, and urban poor communities to translate global climate priorities into equitable, locally grounded Climate Action Plans responsive to vulnerable populations
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Digital Guidebook on the SWaCH Model of Pune’s Waste Pickers
A digital guidebook on the SWaCH Model of Pune’s Waste Pickers developed by a team of senior undergraduate students from U of T and Ashoka University under IMUCP Program
Read moreTeaching Future-Makers: Outcomes of an International Design Workshop for Critical Action Educators
A peer-reviewed paper published at ICLS 2024, produced under Research Catalyst Grantee Dr. Jim Slotta’s Critical Action Learning Lab (CALL): Facilitating Students’ Critical Action on Urban Problems, supported by UTIF’s Research Catalyst Grants 2024-2025. The study documents outcomes of an international design workshop where 39 educators across 14 countries developed curricula addressing pressing socio-environmental issues
Read moreMaking Space for Critical Action: Re-visioning Computational Thinking
A peer-reviewed paper published at CSCL 2024, produced under Research Catalyst Grantee Dr. Jim Slotta’s Critical Action Learning Lab (CALL): Facilitating Students’ Critical Action on Urban Problems, supported by UTIF’s Research Catalyst Grant 2024-2025. The study reports on the co-design of a culturally relevant school makerspace in Bengaluru, India, integrating computational thinking with critical action pedagogy.
Read moreDiversifying Understanding of Participatory Action Research for Critical Learning Curricula in Indian Classrooms
A peer-reviewed paper published at ICLS 2025, produced under Research Catalyst Grantee Dr. Jim Slotta’s Critical Action Learning Lab (CALL): Facilitating Students’ Critical Action on Urban Problems, supported by UTIF’s Research Catalyst Grant 2024-25. The study examines a Participatory Action Research curriculum co-designed by teachers at a K-12 school in Bengaluru, India, addressing plastic waste through community-engaged learning
Read moreMaking the Sacred: Craft, Ritual, and Computational Imaginaries in Postcolonial HCI
A peer-reviewed paper published at CHI 2026, produced under Dr. Nusrat Jahan Mim’s project Urban Heritage and Social Sustainability: Empowering Kolkata’s Idol-Makers through Generative Artificial Intelligence, supported by UTIF’s Research Catalyst Grant 2025-2026. Drawing on a four-month ethnography in Kumartuli, Kolkata, the study examines how idol-maker communities bring sacred forms into being through devotional craft, challenging secular assumptions in Human-Computer Interaction research
Read moreAddressing Gendered Inequities in Nutritional Access in Indigenous Tribes in Palghar, India through Design Justice
Project Guidebook by IMUCP 2025–26 student team, along with community partner Raah Foundation and supported by UTIF, addresses gendered inequities in nutritional access among Indigenous communities in Palghar through a design justice approach. Through policy analysis and gender-sensitive training, it strengthens accountability, translates lived experiences into actionable insights, and advances Indigenous women’s agency in nutrition, health, and decision-making systems.
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