Climate Bubbles: Games to Monitor Urban Climate

Drew Hemment; Carlo Buontempo; Alfie Dennen

doi:10.1162/LEON_a_00097

Climate Bubbles: Games to Monitor Urban Climate

Drew Hemment, Carlo Buontempo, Alfie Dennen

Edinburgh College of Art

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Abstract

Climate Bubbles was a playful, participatory mass observation project on local climate. Bubble blowing games were devised to enable people across the city of Manchester to test air flow circulation and, by sharing the results online, enabled the Met Office to create a snapshot of the effect the Urban Heat Island has on wind.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	64-65
Number of pages	2
Journal	Leonardo
Volume	44
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00097
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2011

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Mass Participation, Locative Media, Climate, FutureEverything

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