Melting Metropolis is a environmental history project exploring how Londoners, New Yorkers and Parisians have thought and felt about heat and its impact on their health. With a focus on sensory, community, and cultural experiences, the project investigates how city dwellers have experienced heat and sought to mitigate its impact on their health and well-being. It has the aim of moving beyond the widespread focus on “climate resilience” to uncover the multiple responses to urban heat and health during an era of climate breakdown. 

As the project’s Research Artist, Bryony is developing new participatory practices and artworks that explore embodied experiences and expressions of urban heat - past and present. Her work draws on historical, ethnographic and community research as well as her wild drawing practice, reimagined as ‘drawing heat’.

This is a 6 year Wellcome-funded project based at the History department at the University of Liverpool. As part of the project Bryony is currently working at Queens College CUNY in New York.

More updates coming soon.