Living Continuity, the first instalment of SAT Research, is an invitation to begin a collective, multiscalar and contextualized inquiry on the challenges and potentialities of working towards socially and ecologically just neighbourhoods. It is motivated by observations on two key emerging issues: homogenised urban zones and dormitory towns that are expanding the city's footprint at an exponential rate and the erosion of social cohesion, inclusion and lived continuity.

Session III focuses on how macro-forces and neoliberal urbanism have increased the risk of community expulsion and resulted in varying forms of community exclusion. Bhoomika Ghaghada presents her research on the downtown neighbourhood of Karama and how its landscape, demographic composition, and cultural identity have been transformed through redevelopment since 2015, leading to cultural expulsion. Developed during her MA in Media Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in 2019, her thesis centres the embedded South Asian community of Karama as it undergoes erasure.

Bhoomika Ghaghada is a writer and independent researcher, born and raised in the UAE. She writes about gender, urban spaces, and media, focusing on structural inequalities and their everyday manifestations. Her writing has appeared in Jadaliyya, Postscript Magazine, and Unootha Mag. She is the Co-Founder of Gulf Creative Collective, a non-profit initiative helping creatives in the UAE re-evaluate notions of value, advocate for themselves in the workplace, and find refuge, care and community.