LUCSUS seminar: "Too hot, too cold: dwelling in discomfort as a question of thermal justice"

Too hot, too cold

Dwelling in discomfort as a question of thermal justice

Speaker: Alice Guilbert, doctoral researcher and assistant at the Institute of Environmental Sciences

In Switzerland, temperatures keep rising—mostly in cities—while energy systems are under increasing pressure; facing this dual challenge, new patterns of vulnerability and inequality emerge in accessing thermal comfort. This thesis aims to identify the roots of these disparities by examining the unequal distribution of climate extremes and the impacts of the energy crisis on everyday living conditions. Focusing on Geneva, the research unpacks thermal injustices to understand the dynamics and processes that produce inequalities in dwelling comfortably when facing uncomfortable temperatures.