Description
As extreme heat moves deeper into daily life across Southeast Asia, communities are testing ways to protect the places people cannot simply leave.
In Indonesia, women farmers and residents turn unused land into food gardens that may cool their surroundings. In Bangkok, schoolchildren enter a hot-house simulation while volunteers map homes at greatest risk.
In Kuala Lumpur and Melaka, residents of low-cost flats work with researchers and city partners to measure indoor heat, create cooling spaces and test heat-reflective paint. In Hanoi, a heritage shophouse and a modern five-storey home reveal how shade and airflow can reduce reliance on air-conditioning.
Together, these experiments ask what it takes to turn local knowledge into everyday protection before the next hot day arrives.
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00:00 Introduction
00:41 An Indonesian garden fighting urban heat
03:29 Can urban farms really cool cities?
08:55 How Jakarta turns unused land into farms
11:48 How Bangkok teaches children about heat danger
14:44 When homes become dangerously hot
17:09 Mapping the homes most at risk
19:46 Designing cooler communities with residents
22:20 Why Malaysian public housing traps heat overnight
27:06 Turning a lobby into a cooling centre
29:03 Measuring heat inside homes in Malacca
32:15 Can reflective paint cool buildings?
34:38 Why Hanoi homes stay hot after dark
36:27 Ancient designs that keep homes cool
38:14 Inside Vietnam’s modern house that breathes
41:39 How passive cooling works
42:59 Can passive cooling spread across Hanoi?
44:34 Four countries, four ways to beat heat
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About the show:
Across Asia, communities and experts test ways to protect homes and neighbourhoods from rising heat, without leaving the vulnerable behind.
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