This episode, we take on a thought experiment — The air outside is getting so polluted that people in Indian cities start living inside clean air domes. What would these clean air domes look like? Where would we build them? And who gets to live inside these domes?
Experts we spoke to for the episode:
Dr. Rohit Negi, an associate professor at Ambedkar University, Delhi.
Dr. Pallavi Pant, Air quality scientists based in Boston.
Mr. Jai Dhar Gupta, clean air activist and entrepreneur.
Mr. Rajat Sodhi, architect and founder of the Bubbles Project.
People who helped make this episode:
Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta.
Theme music, sound design and editing by Abhijit Shylanath.
Draft edits by Abhishek Madan.
Shivalika and Abhijit voiced the characters in the fictional ad.
Parni Ray co-wrote the fiction piece and helped with the research.
Parvathy Nair supported the production process.
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Transcript | References | Sound Credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQfv7RE6gFgathHMJOtqW2poxu7ndvN7iEQad6G-DtcsjnpDsCPUyWPwPtR02JGsmCzVV4iIH1pIuyu/pub
Disclaimer:
The names, characters, and incidents portrayed in the fictional story of S2E5 of Imagined Tomorrow are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.