AirSense

Purifying Cities, Activating Communities.

A project by Aaliyah Mohammed, Areeba Shahid, Kaya Tueni, Rand Kachlan, and Shamma Al Shamsi, realized as part of the Transversal Studio conducted at DIDI in the Spring 2023, co-taught by Joanne Hayek and Mirko Daneluzzo, with the support of the DIDI Future City Lab.

Selected to be exhibited at Ars Electronica Festival 2023

Crowd-mapping Dubai’s air quality

Citizens become sensors of air pollution as they move around the city with ‘Airsense’, a small pin that communicates through colored light. The pin is connected to a gamified app that provides real-time mapping of the air quality of the city while prompting citizens to act on it.

Activating public spaces while cleaning the air

At a communal level, the project proposes to implement a series of autonomous ‘Particle Cruisers’: mobile outdoor furniture elements made of mycelium that have the capacity to clean the air. They carry a variety of air-filtering plants that absorb toxic gases. Their outer layer consists of a photo-catalytic paint collecting the PM2.5 and PM10 particles when exposed to the sun.

Read more about Airsense here