Colombo Urban Lab

What can a family’s food plate reveal about polycrisis, time poverty, urban infrastructures and city planning?

Iromi’s keynote address at UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia delved into the work of the Colombo Urban Lab in influencing city making and policy planning, through the experiences of the working class and informal sector in Sri Lanka’s capital city.

The workshop was hosted by The Urban Center in Addis Ababa in partnership with Wagon2Africa (a consortium led by the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy), with this year’s edition centering the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in African cities , a theme that resonates deeply with CUL’s own work at the intersections of infrastructure, nutrition, energy and the lives of working class and informal sector communities in