Common Sense, mobile air quality sensing

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

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

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

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."

Designed by Diffus, Tine M. Jensen, Forster Rohner, Alexandra Instituto, and The Danish Design School.

LABO_IN THE AIR

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.

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

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.