This instalment highlights our upcoming events: the Summer Solstice Festival at Saatchi Gallery, where you can see a live performance of ‘Stand of the Sun’; the launch event for Dr Chloé Duteil’s graphic novel, ‘Summer in Paris’; and the oral history interviews featured at London’s Climate Story Bank.

Our April instalment focuses on two new blog posts from Melting Metropolis team members; one detailing a summer archive project with partners in New York, and the other focusing on community engagement work in Somers Town, London.

This month, we shine a spotlight on the progress the Melting Metropolis team have made with policy engagement work. Also, a fantastic oral history community event organised by our partners in New York, plus a blog focusing on reflections from Queens College undergraduate research interns.

We kick off 2026 - and the fourth year of the Melting Metropolis project - with the announcement of a new publication, an upcoming oral history event in New York, and a blog post discussing ‘Climate Resilience’.

In our final newsletter of 2025, we have a research update from Dr Jon Winder, information about our new directive with Mass Observation, and details of STCA’s community-led climate activities (where this ‘Bring Back Shutters’ poster was created!).

We start this month with a spotlight on the research of our Geography Postdoc, Dr Rosie Knowles. Also, details of some fantastic community-based work from our colleagues in New York, a creative writing workshop for the team, and a new Storyteller on board.

Read about the Melting Metropolis team’s important work during Climate Week NYC, a trip to Paris to gather reference material, and a warm welcome to our new co-investigator on the project.

The first instalment of our monthly newsletter! A roundup of everyone’s hard work over the hot summer, including Bryony Ella’s Stand of the Sun performance, a welcome to our community storytellers, and the Melting Metropolis team’s contribution to the ESEH conference.