[ISEA2013] Paper: Benedict Anderson & Nancy Diniz – Breathe: wearing your air

Abstract

Keywords: Real time data visualization, wearable environmental sensing devices, personal pollution monitor, civic engagement.

Breathe – the air we wear proposes wearable and mobile technologies for reading and rendering in real time the air we breathe. The project proposes the ‘actioning’ for better air quality through individuals’ capacity to record air pollution. The project initiates a walk-able protest by taking air quality directly to the individual and through critical mass counter the massive problems facing our urban atmospheres. In particular, the article focuses on the pollution problems facing China today.

  • Benedict Anderson, Faculty of Architecture Design and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  • Nancy Diniz, Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

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