Heat Ready Youth: From Global Boiling to Heat Resilience

About this event

Heat Ready Youth: From Global Boiling to Heat Resilience From Feeling Heat to Taking Action Heat Ready Youth is an interactive learning experience by Heat Ready Thailand that invites children, young people, and the public to explore extreme heat, an increasingly critical urban risk under climate change. Combining Experiential Learning, Climate Education, and Citizen Science, the program transforms invisible heat into something participants can feel, see, measure, understand, and act upon. At the heart of the experience is “Hot House 2100: Experience the Future Heat,” an immersive simulation of a hotter future. Participants explore how extreme heat affects the human body, health, and everyday life, while learning about Thermal Inequality, which highlights how heat exposure, vulnerability, and the capacity to cope with heat can differ across people, places, and communities. Participants become Heat Detectives, using scientific tools to measure Heat Index and Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) and thermal cameras to reveal invisible heat patterns across materials, buildings, and urban spaces. They investigate what makes places hotter and how design, shade, vegetation, water, and materials can help create cooler environments. The experience takes participants from feeling heat and making invisible heat visible to understanding heat risks and taking action, empowering young Climate Citizens to use science, evidence, and creativity to help shape cooler, safer, more equitable, and climate-resilient communities and cities.