In the air

European City Ranking, Best practices for clean air

2011-09-20T02:59:00.000-07:00

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), integrated by non gubernamental asociations, publishes their ranking with the cleanest cities. Roma is the most polluted one, and Madrid is one of the last. Berlin is in the top of the cleanest cities.

You can check the ranking and look for more information of each city here.

Reference sent by: Raquel Osa.
Image: sootfreecities.

ANTI POLLUTION CONCRETE

2011-09-20T02:52:00.000-07:00

Some Scientists from Belgium are studing a new way to reduce air pollution. It is a concrete covered by a chemical with titanium oxide and It is illuminated by ultraviolet lights.

They are testing it in a tunnel with traffic, if It works they will use this method in others tunnels in Bruselas.

You can read more at Ecología Verde.

WORLDMAPPER

2011-06-09T05:07:00.000-07:00

Some awesome maps from WORLMAPPER:

Emissions of Sulphur Dioxide:

And Nitrogen Oxides:

New Rules for Bicycles in Madrid

2011-03-09T03:45:00.000-08:00

Traffic Department will amend the Rules for bikes circulation in the city this year.
They want to give priority to bicicles against cars on the streets which are limited to 30 Kmph. Cyclists will be authorized to drive along on sidewalks with more than three meters wide, but in any case, respecting one metro from the facades of buildings to allow a clear passage for pedestrians.

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba clarifies that there should be a bike lane to differentiate the areas for pedestrian and for bicycles.

You can read more at El Pais , Madridiario, El Mundo.

Image: Gorka Lejarcegi, El País.

Visionary of the Science

2011-03-01T00:12:00.000-08:00

The ERC finances the most advanced projects of scientific research (266), and 13 of them are spanish.

The projects are varied, but they all rely on the ability to control matter (alive or inert), and in the fact that now it´s possible to manage and interpret huge amounts of data of almost everything.

The project of Jordi Bascompte (CSIC) in the Biological Station of Doñana researches how to simulate and predict the way that the nature would be affected by a massive disturbance as the climate change.

Congratulations to all of them!

You can read more at El Pais newspaper.

Study: Air Pollution Is the "Major Culprit" of Heart Attacks

2011-02-28T00:23:00.000-08:00

As we can read at GOOD Magazine:

"Think air pollution might give you asthma, at worst? It's a little more serious than that, according to new research in the journal The Lancet:

Air pollution triggers more heart attacks than using cocaine and poses as high a risk of sparking a heart attack as alcohol, coffee and physical exertion, scientists said on Thursday.
Sex, anger, marijuana use and chest or respiratory infections and can also trigger heart attacks to different extents, the researchers said, but air pollution, particularly in heavy traffic, is the major culprit..."

Report by Andrew Price, web editor.

You can read more here.

Reference sent by Uriel Fogué, Agencia de Arquitectura.

Image (cc) by Flickr user steven.buss, Smog over LA.

Flashmob in Madrid

2011-02-16T00:57:00.001-08:00

Last saturday It was the 1st Flashmob against pollution in the center of Madrid!!!

You can read more at El Pais.

Images: Marina Fernández Ramos.

El ROTO, finally

2011-02-12T11:23:00.000-08:00

We´ve been waiting, but he has finally done it:

"We realize that the air exists when we can´t breathe"

High pollution in Madrid and Barcelona

2011-02-09T00:21:00.000-08:00

More news about the actual pollution situation in the cities at the national press:

El País: "The rain will clean the air, the politician wont"
El País: "Gallardón: We have the cleanest air of the last ten years"
El País: High pollution in Madrid and Barcelona
El Mundo: The plan for restrict the trafic that Gallardón never executed.
El Mundo: video: "The most polluted square".
El Mundo: video: opinion of the citizen.
El Mundo: "PSOE: the pollution affects all the community"
El Mundo: discussion.
El Mundo: "Ways to reduce pollution"

Image: El País.

Warning of high pollution in Madrid

2011-02-08T00:15:00.000-08:00

Last night there were pannels at M-30 street asking the drivers to use public transport. There are high levels of pollutants in the city. The situation will stay like this for some more days becouse there is no rain or wind.

You can read more at El Mundo or El País newspapers.

Image: El Mundo.

Reference sent by Eva Moraga.

More cities will be investigated

2011-02-07T00:27:00.000-08:00

The Environment Fiscal of Madrid, Antonio Vercher, will investigate the data pollution in other cities of Spain like Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia o Bilbao.

"Ecologistas en Acción" declares that at least 8 more cities changed the location of their pollution detectors: Burgos, Córdoba, Granada, León, Ponferrada, Valencia, Valladolid y Zaragoza.

Click here for more information (El Pais newspaper).

The President of the Community of Madrid defends the Mayor

2011-02-07T00:15:00.000-08:00

The President of the Community of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre defends the Mayor Gallardón. She says that the EU doesn´t ask to locate the pollution detectors in the most contaminated areas.

You can read more here (El País newspaper).

And click here for more information about the pollution in Madrid during the last days.

Image: El País.

Reference sent by Lucía Fernández.

Statements of the Environment Minister

2011-02-02T04:02:00.000-08:00

The Environment Minister declares that the air quality in Madrid is very bad and urges the Council to "take urgent actions", like rearranging the traffic, avoiding it in some areas and improving public transport.

Statements of the Environment Local Responsable

2011-02-02T03:19:00.000-08:00

Ana Botella, the responsable of the Environment department of the Local Gobernment declares that the Air Pollution of Madrid is not dangerous for the health of the citizens.

She also says that the government is blamable for promoting the use of diesel cars.

You can read more at El Mundo , Público, ABC, El País.

Image: El Mundo.

The Environment Fiscal ask for responsabilities

2011-02-02T02:32:00.000-08:00

The Environment Fiscal of Madrid, Antonio Vercher, asks Madrid Local Gobernment for an identification of the responsable people who ordered the change of the location of the pollution detectors in the city.

As we explained in other posts, some pollution detectors were moved to green areas (in order to get better data), so the air of the most polluted areas is not being mesured.

Vercher has ordered the collection of air pollution data in these points and they´ve noticed that It hasn´t been reduced.

Madrid is not respecting The EU limits for Air Pollution and there is not a real local strategy to reduce them.

You can read this new at El Pais newspaper.

Image: El Pais.

Statements of the Environment Fiscal

2011-02-02T01:03:00.000-08:00

The Environment Fiscal of Madrid declares that the change of the location of the pollution detectors of Madrid demonstrates that the Local Government is ignoring an important problem of air pollution.

You can read more at El Pais newspaper. Also an old report of El Mundo.

Image: El País.

Bruselas stops the CO2 market

2011-02-02T01:00:00.000-08:00

The 20th of january Bruselas stopped the market of CO2 emission rights (at least until the 26th of january) becouse there´ve been some informatic thievery.

You can read more at the El Pais newspaper.

Image: El País.

Air Quality Report 2010

2011-01-26T03:03:00.000-08:00

Ecologistas en Acción present their anual report about the Air Quality of Madrid: the limits of pollution are not being respected, and the Local Estrategy of the Comunity of Madrid 2006-2010 is not working. They´re going to denunciate the Local Gobernment to the Courts.

You can see the report here.

Madrid is not able to reduce Air pollution

2011-01-20T02:00:00.000-08:00

Another report of El País, confirmed: Madrid is not respecting the limits for Air pollution of the EU, Ana Botella ask for more time.

We can see this information in other national newspapers and blogs. Also at plataformaSINC.

Ecologist ask for taking actions.

Air pollution limits not respected in Madrid

2011-01-19T00:25:00.000-08:00

The Pais Newspaper publishes a new report about the air pollution in Madrid. The reporter Elena G. Sevillano continues tracing the situation of pollution in the city: The EU levels aren´t being respected.

Ana Botella (Environment Department of the Local Government) wants to ask the EU for more time, and says that their limits are too much strict.

Ecologistas en Acción is going to denunciate the local Government.

Reference sent by Jara Rocha.

2011-01-10T11:05:00.000-08:00

El Pais newspaper has published two more reports about the air pollution in madrid:

>"La UE debe ser más ambiciosa contra la contaminación": an interview to JULIO DÍAZ, researched of the Health Institute Carlos III. He has studied the relationship between PM2,5 particles (most of them come from diesel engines) and mortality. He consideres that the EU should have to ask for more restricted limits.
The reporter Elena G. Sevillano reminds that the pollution detectors of the most contaminated areas has been removed: The air of the most polluted areas is not being measuring.

>"Gallardón elude la responsabilidad sobre los niveles de contaminación": Gallardón, the Mayor of Madrid, doesn´t assume responsabilities about the high levels of pollution in the city.

Doors of Perception

2010-12-02T01:24:00.000-08:00

John Thackara, the director of Doors of Perception, has written a report that describes the In The Air project.

This text also appears at the fabulous site of the DESIGN OBSERVER group. We mentioned this web in our Post about the article of Javier Arbona "Dangers In The Air".

We can also find at Design Observer another interesting posts like CO2 Cubes in Copenhagen.

Reference sent by Asier Pérez, Funky Projects.

Photovoltaic panels in Madrid

2010-11-30T00:29:00.000-08:00

The Spanish Company IM2 in colaboration with the German Krannich opens the bigest area for photovoltaic panels in Madrid.

This will avoid the emission of 430 T of CO2 and will save 91.459 l of petroleo every year.

We can read more in Ecología Verde.

AFECTADONUDOSUR

2010-11-24T04:41:00.000-08:00

AV Nudo Sur is an Association of people living in the south west of Madrid. From their WEB they give information about the situation of the district, and the air quality of the area.

Some important roads that give acces to the center of the city are located in this place, and there´s a lot of traffic during the rush hours. With the In The Air application we can see how the pollution increases during this hours, and how this situation happens almost every day.

"Dangers in the Air"

2010-11-18T08:16:00.000-08:00

Bompas & Parr: Alcoholic Architecture, 2009. [Photograph: Bompas & Parr. All images courtesy of Air: Alphabet City No. 15]

Javier Arbona, a PhD candidate in geography at UC Berkeley with a background in architecture and urbanism, has written the article "Dangers in the Air: Aerosol Architecture and Invisible Landscapes" for the next issue of Alphabet City: Air.

A shorter version of the text has been published at Places / Design Observer.

The text describes how the air has been a working material for some recent artistic and architectural projects, unfolding some of it´s perceptive and theoretical implications.

In the Air is one of the references.

Congratulations Javier.

I LOVE BICIS

2010-11-16T13:24:00.000-08:00

I LOVE BICIS, a blog from the El Pais newspaper, encourages people to use the bici.

We love them too!

In The Air at the Smart Future Minds Ehibition

2010-11-15T03:42:00.000-08:00

In The Air has been selected for the Smart Future Minds exhibition!

This award shows our cities future from diferents points of views, and It´s been showed at the Smart Urban Stage in Berlín, Roma, Londres and Madrid (from 20th of october to 11th of november).

MADRID EN BICI

2010-11-15T03:05:00.000-08:00

We want to go cycling in Madrid!!

Here we have some platforms that claim the use of bicicles in Madrid and ask the Council for the correct conditions of rails and trafic in the city, and more security for the cyclists:

*Picture of cyclists in Madrid during the Bicicrítca.

Madrid reduces pollution changing the way of measure it

2010-11-15T00:50:00.000-08:00

The national newspaper El País has published an extended report about the situation of the air pollution in Madrid and the changes of the location of the measuring station. It also explains the "real" ways that cities like Barcelona, París, Roma, Londres y Berlin reduce their pollution.

Madrid reduces the pollution arround 26% only in one year. The way to do it? Changing the location of the measuring stations: moving some of them to green areas and deleting others that were in the places with higher levels of pollution.

Information sent by Iván López Munuera, Uriel Fogué and Pep Tornabell.

Here you can see and old post .

Pollution Maps

2010-11-11T09:05:00.000-08:00

Maps produced by the In The Air aplication:

Maps of particles PM10 in Madrid.

Maps of particles PM10, the high density of population areas and the low density of population areas in Madrid.

Maps of particles PM10, the most expensive and cheapest areas in Madrid.

WARNING OF HIGH NO2 LEVELS IN MADRID

2010-11-04T08:14:00.000-07:00

On October 21 there were high levels of NO2 pollution in some stations of the center of Madrid (Ramon y Cajal, Cuatro Caminos, Escuelas Aguirre and Méndez Álvaro) for several hours . The council recommended the use of public transport. If the warning limits were exceeded, the traffic in the city could be stopped.

Here's the information in various media:

EFEVERDE

ESPORMADRID (22 10 10)

ESPORMADRID (18 10 10)

MADRIDIARIO

MUNIMADRID

ECOLOGISTAS EN ACCIÓN

AFECTADOSNUDOSUR

AFECTADOSNUDOSUR (28 10 10)

*Picture published in Madridiario.

In the air referenced at Pécs

2010-09-25T01:03:00.000-07:00

Our friends Attila Bujdoso and Melinda Sipos from Kitchen Budapest told us that Martjin de Waal showed as reference project at 'After the cultural city' conference, in
Pécs.

Martjin had written a very interesting comparition between In the air and San Francisco Map at The mobile city after our virtual meeting at Electrosmog.

Common Sense, mobile air quality sensing

2010-08-27T15:13:00.000-07:00

Common Sense is developing several prototypes of mobile air quality sensing devices, which would enable citizens to produce their own data. "We hope our project will illustrate ways in which everyday citizens can use sensing technologies to conduct citizen science and participate in the political process". Even if the project does a great effort in the design of the products, we belive that the participatory process should be designed as well in order to be able to produce certain effects.

The Common Sense team is a large multidisciplinary group around Berkley University, Nokia and University of Michigan.

City Sense: an open, urban scale sensor network testbed

2010-08-27T14:51:00.000-07:00

The project City Sense is already 3 years old, but it is certanly one of the largest examples of a sensing distributed network. A key point of the project is their understanding of their interconnected system as an infrastructure that other projects can use independently of their air quality measurments.

It has been developed by Harvard University and BBN Technologies.

New aplication to check the air quality

2010-07-08T00:28:00.000-07:00

The Environmental Softwarw and Modelling Group of the Politecnic University of Madrid (GMSMA) developes an aplication that allows to check the air quality. This work belongs to the project “España Virtual”, leaded by Deimos Space. Indra Espacio, the National Center of Geographic Information (IGN/CNIG), Grid Systems, Geovirtual, some Universities and research centers are also involved.

Clik here to visualice the article published in "Tendencias Informáticas".

Reference sent by Alfonso Sánchez.

CLIMATE DRESS

2010-06-02T02:42:00.001-07:00

This dress incorporates a detector of CO2: when the concentration is higher the LEDs lit up more.

"The Climate Dress is made of conductive embroidery, over hundred of tiny LED lights inserted into the embroidey, a CO2 sensor and an Arduino Lilypad microprocessor. The LEDs visualize the level of CO2 in the nearby surroundings and are powered trough the embroidery! For The Climate Dress we used soft conductive thread that has a similar consistence to the kind of thread used for traditional and industrial embroidery production. This way it is possible to make embroidery that become more than an esthetical element in clothing and interior textiles."

LABO_IN THE AIR

2010-06-01T00:38:00.000-07:00

New exhibition at the LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijón with In The Air and some more research projects on new urban strategies: Habitar.

"Habitar is a walk through new emerging scenarios in the city. It is a catalogue of ideas and images from artists, design and architecture studios, and hybrid research centres. Together they come up with a series of potential tools, solutions and languages to negotiate everyday life in the new urban situation".

We present some In The Air news: an interactive projection, maps that show the pollution linked with the urban structure, some 3D stereolithographies that allows to understand the events and the day-working of the city in relation with the levels of pollution. We pretend to explode and develope the analytical skills, communication and experience of the application.

Thu, May 27 , 2010-Mon, November 8 , 2010

CURATOR: José Luis de Vicente

CONCEPTUAL ADVISOR: Fabien Girardin.

ARTISTS: Timo Arnall, Julian Bleecker, Ángel Borrego - Office for Strategic Spaces, Nerea Calvillo, Citilab-Cornellà, Pedro Miguel Cruz, Dan Hill, IaaC - Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña, kawamura-ganjavian + Maki Portilla Kawamura + Tanadori Yamaguchi, Aaron Koblin, Philippe Rahm architectes, Marina Rocarols, Enrique Soriano, Pep Tornabell, Theodore Molloy, Semiconductor, SENSEable City Lab, Mark Shepard

More information here.

Clik here to visualice the article published at Plataforma SINC, Servicio de Información y Noticias científicas.

The Office of Environment ask for an explanation about the new location of the stations.

2010-05-31T02:56:00.000-07:00

The Office of Environment requests the Madrid City Council for an explanation about the new location of the monitoring stations of air pollutants in the city.

The Office of Environment thinks that instead of solving the causes of high pollution levels, the City Council is eliminating some of the monitoring stations, which does not mean that the problem has been resolved but lead to think that has been hidden.

Click here for more information: article published in the local newspaper ADN.

Reference sent by Raquel Osa Fernández.

at Processing.org

2010-05-10T01:16:00.000-07:00

In the air was published at Processing´s Exhibition page. Thanks to Casey Reas for the invitation!
And thanks to the coders and to Toxi for some of his lines.

NUEVO SISTEMA INFORMÁTICO

2010-04-05T04:35:00.000-07:00

Se desarrolla un nuevo sistema informático para controlar y prevenir la contaminación atmosférica. Ha sido realizado en la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid como parte de la tesis doctoral del alumno Juan Luis Pérez Camaño, dirigida por el profesor Roberto San José, director del Grupo de Modelos y Software para el Medio Ambiente (GMSMA) de la Facultad.

Publicación de la noticia en la plataforma SINC:

"Un sistema informático que permite de forma robusta y eficiente el control y la previsión de la contaminación atmosférica, ha sido desarrollado en la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (FIUPM), según informa esta Facultad en un comunicado.
El sistema informático tiene capacidad para realizar predicciones de calidad del aire en tiempo real y para analizar el impacto de las diversas fuentes emisoras, tanto estáticas como dinámicas, en modo operacional, por lo que da respuesta al interés de las autoridades ambientales por reducir los problemas de calidad del aire.
La calidad del aire en un territorio determinado viene dada por la distribución geográfica de las fuentes de emisión, las cantidades de contaminantes emitidas, los procesos físico-químicos que se producen en la atmósfera y la climatología y la orografía, que condicionan los procesos de dispersión y transporte.
El sistema desarrollado en la FIUPM integra modelos complejos de modelización atmosférica, perfectamente adaptados a la complejidad y no linealidad de los procesos que tienen lugar en una atmósfera, que es totalmente dinámica."

Referencia enviada por Nerea García Garmendia.

SPATRAM

2010-03-19T07:33:00.001-07:00

Figure: SPATRAM (Spectrometer for Atmospheric TRAcers Monitoring) installed since April 2004 at the University of Evora , Portugal.

Since 1999, DTA is involved in the development of new remote-sensing equipment, in particular Uv-Vis Spectrometers (Figure), devoted to the monitoring of atmospheric compounds (specifically, gaseous compounds as Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Ozone (O3) in the Stratosphere and in “passive mode” (meaning that the source of radiation is the Sun). The spectrometers used in “Active Mode” (the source of radiation is artificial – i.e. Halogen Lamps) can also perform measurements of tropospheric pollutants as BTX, Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) and again NO2 and O3.

Reference sent by André Albuquerque.

RatTales

2010-03-15T09:29:00.001-07:00

RateTales is an installation with a large ﬂoor projection and camera tracking system, creating a space for interaction among people and a computer-generated swarm of rats. Every rat as well as each visitor has a tail made of letters displaying various quotes about rats. The rats will ﬂee from visitors but attack them from behind. With his rat-tail the individual joins a race, he may perceive as a disgust and a threat.

It is a project of TheGreenEyl

Reference sent by Irma Földényi.

Cambridge Mobile Urban Sensing

2009-12-24T09:23:00.000-08:00

CamMobSens is a project of Cambridge University, where they mount sensors on pedestrians and cyclists to monitor pollution and send back the information to a website as soon as it is gathered. In the figure above taken from their web page, pollution levels are proxied by the height of the plots.

Más información aquí.

Reference sent by Susanna Tesconi.

Visualizar 09: Public data, data in public

2009-12-24T09:05:00.001-08:00

In the air has been selected as invited project to Visualizar 09 at Medialab-Prado, workshop directed by Jose Luis de Vicente, with Ben Cerveny from Stamen, Aaron Koblin and Manuel Lima as tutors and with the support of Bestiario.

We have developed the application in two aspects:

-we have added a timeline, which allows to navigate through the data by hour, day and month.
-we have studied the archived data to find patterns of behaviour of the components, relating them to the activities of the city. We have added tags which pop up through time, allowing the user to read the stories behind the data.

We have developed as well an application for the digital facade, which consists on a changing heatmap with the location of all stations.

Collaborators of Visualizar 09: Paolo Battino y Velentina Basotti (informational architecture), Raquel Osa, Martina Fernández Ramos y Guillermo San Miguel (contents), Martín Nadal (code development), and Francisco Martín (technical assistant).

biological agents in the air

2009-11-03T06:52:00.000-08:00

Other agents, other means, other scopes...Scarry, isn´t it?

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Sensor Detects Invisible Agents.

Research on a new sensing device able to simultaneously identify more than 3,000 biological materials shows great promise, says one of its developers, Ravi Saraf of Virginia Tech's chemical engineering department. Saraf, who holds 27 U.S. patents, hopes such a device will have multiple military and industrial applications, especially as concerns continue over the threat of terrorist attacks.

A key advantage of this new sensor is its ability to detect a specific biological agent even if its trace amount is only one part per billion in a sample volume of air or water.

The new detector or biochip under development has an optical based system. Its designers have increased the sensitivity of what the chip can "see" or sense, consequently improving its response...

Measuring and visualizing indoor air quality

2009-10-25T05:16:00.000-07:00

inAir (living-environments.net) is a personal tool for sensing and visualizing indoor air quality to improve awareness and understanding of indoor air quality. inAir provides historical and real-time visualizations of indoor air quality by measuring tiny hazardous airborne particles as small as 0.5 microns in size.

It is a project of Sunyoung Kim & Eric Paulos, at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon.

Info sent by Santiago Ortiz.

Piensa Madrid 2

2009-10-09T06:00:00.000-07:00

Yesteday we had the chance to present the project in Piensa Madrid 2, a seminar curated by Ariadna Cantís and Andrés Jaque in its second edition. It was interesting to identify the different points of view from the platforms we shared the table with: Ludotek and Traficantes de Sueños.

Urban Screens and Public Space Seminar

2009-10-09T05:47:00.000-07:00

(Image: led action screen. Langarita-Navarro.com)

We presented the Diffuse facade at the Urban Screens and Public Space Seminar.

A great article which contextualizes our facade has been written by Gregg Smith, a Toronto-based designer and researcher interested in media and technology, and collaborator of In the air.

Back to nature

2009-10-09T05:38:00.000-07:00

Back to nature was curated by Green Geometries Laboratory (GGlab). It took place in Valencia ( Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Valencia) and In the air was selected as one of the projects which deal with the capacity of computing design to relate/replicate/realte to nature.

Ecopam @ PICNIC

2009-10-09T05:30:00.000-07:00

Waag Society, FING, FutureEverything and Amsterdam Innovation Motor hosted a one-day EcoMap Lab at PICNIC, curated by Frank Kersin. We will built a shared understanding on how to map the environment (eg. energy, waste & mobility), aggregate the data and visualize it to promote behavioral change and reduce CO2 footprints. Based on international examples we developed prototypes for getting, aggregating & visualizing environmental data in effective, useable and unexpected ways.
Participated as speakers: Daniel Kaplan, FING, Usman Haque, Pachube, Drew Hemment, FutureEverything, René Post, Geluidsnet, Shane Mitchell, and us.

9ª Bienal de Vídeo y Artes Mediales

2009-10-09T05:18:00.000-07:00

In the air was selected by Valentina Montero for the Bienal´s international curatorship. We did as well a workshop to build Santiago de Chile in the air. We will lounch the aplication soon.
In the workshop participated Chirstian Oyarzun, Ricardo Vega, Fran and others (please, write because the list was stolen!)

I Citizen Cartography International Meeting

2009-10-09T05:03:00.000-07:00

It took place in Gijón in July, and was an incredible meeting organized and curated by Pablo de Soto of Hackitectura. It consisted on presentations and open workshop sessions. Check out the web to view the list of participants, and its great review of Beatriz Belmonte in elprincipiodeincertidumbre.

In the air in Continuum Electronica

2009-10-02T10:01:00.000-07:00

Continuum Electronica´s exhibition was curated by Valentina Montero and organized by MECAD. It took place from 04/04/2009 to 10/04/2009 at L'Estruch

Glob@s in the air

2009-07-24T01:34:00.000-07:00

Susanna Tesconi, collaborator of In the air, has developed in Medialab-Prado´s Interactivos 09? the project Glob@s (http://servidor.medialab-prado.es/blogs/globos/)

Glob@s is an educational experiment in which children are invited to use a DIY air monitoring device to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution.

Children are able to see pollutant levels in their current locations. The information is supplied by an interface easy to use that choose symbolic forms of pollutants and through animations represent their consequences on the environment.

The potential for work in teaching this content goes beyond the issues related to pollutants, addressing historical, geographical, demographic, economic, among others issues.
Glob@s can be a starting point for interactive, real-time and integrated through the web platform for reflection and analysis of how our actions and behavior interfere so directly in the air we breathe.