Project title
Building in soundscape resilience via flood resilience to create healthier residential environments
Project abstract
Jivantika is an architect, urban planner, and researcher passionate about shaping healthier, more climate-responsive cities. Her work sits at the intersection of sustainable urban water management, heritage conservation, water sensitive planning, community development and human experience. She has experience in South Asia in complex historic city centres, informal settlements, coastal regions, and rapidly growing metropolitan areas.
Funded by the ESRC–Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences, her interdisciplinary research bridges environmental psychology and spatial design to generate practical, locally grounded solutions for resilient and inclusive urban futures. Her PhD project explores how Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) can do more than manage flood risk — investigating how their soundscapes and green design can actively enhance wellbeing in residential neighbourhoods. She has designed and built the immersive Virtual Reality (VR) urban environments to test how people perceive and respond to different landscape and design interventions before they are implemented in the real world.