Rohitha Remala's thesis, Choosing to Stay: Helping Communities Combat Climate Migration, explores various design interventions catered to helping communities stay and rebuild their communities rather than having them migrate—by assisting them in reassessing the values in their native places.
Her thesis focuses on how climate-induced slow violence (a term coined by Rob Nixon in 2011) acts as a psychosocial element of human well-being and focuses on deriving interventions for individuals, families, and communities, thereby providing a solution for a systemic issue through a system of designs.