Bharath Haridas

Bharath Haridas is a Strategic Design Fellow at Transitions Research. His work focuses on applying strategic design, human-centred methods, and systems thinking to bridge research, policy, and societal action within sustainability transitions. Drawing on over a decade of experience in innovation consulting, service design, and cross-sector collaboration (including climate, agriculture, and health). he develops research tools, communication strategies and experiential learning experiences. At Transitions Research, Bharath contributes his expertise to designing behavioural interventions for the People’s Urban Living Lab (PULL) and crafting learning journeys for the Monsoon Academy. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Design from the California College of the Arts.

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Low-Carbon Living : Reimagining India’s Built Environment
This blog explores how India can transition to low-carbon buildings by integrating locally sourced materials, low carbon construction techniques, policy reforms, and community-led initiatives to create sustainable, climate-resilient built spaces.
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Talk health, not climate for low-carbon lifestyles
This piece highlights the importance of centering health as the motivator for low-carbon lifestyles.
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No Woman Left Behind: Shedding Light On Gender Equity in India’s Low-Carbon Transition
Despite near universal access to electricity, gendered inequities in electricity usage hinder India’s progress on sustainable development goals. As energy policy focuses on renewable energy, socio-cultural shifts must also be prioritised to improve women’s agency over electricity use.
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Beyond Global Visions: Local Imaginaries for Indian Cities
Instead of envisioning “world-class” futures for India’s cities, we need a new imagination for equitable, climate resilient and low carbon urbanisation.
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Building a Net Zero Society
Our recent Talking About Transitions Dialogue, Building a Net Zero Society, unpacked the importance of social transformations to achieve a low carbon transitions in Indian cities. How can we leverage behaviour change, equitable urban planning and innovative planning approaches to create an equitable net zero future?
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Power and Politics: Reframing Urban Nature-based Solutions from the Bottom-Up
Nature in South Asian cities is highly contested: cities must incorporate community visions, indigenous knowledge and local uses of nature in cities to achieve climate and development goals.
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Behaviour change and climate action
Policymakers must recognise behavior change as an important tool to inform climate policies and communication, and enable individual climate action.
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Too hot to deliver
Platform companies, governments, and regulatory bodies must work together to effectively address heat stress for vulnerable communities like delivery workers in Indian cities.
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The City as a Laboratory - Urban Living Labs for Resilience Planning
Why are Urban Living Labs emerging as an approach to enable climate action? This blog highlights insights and knowledge that emerged from our dialogue on Urban Living Labs in 2022.
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Climate Adaptation in Resilient Cities: Explorations in South Asia
Transitions Research and Forum for the Future organised a workshop at the Global Gobeshona Conference in March 2022 to explore how scenarios of different climate adaptation strategies could transpire.