Climate Bubbles: Games to Monitor Urban Climate

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Feb 2011 United Kingdom English Publisher:MIT Press - JournalsJournal:Leonardo, volume 44, pages 64-65 (issn: 0024-094X, eissn: 1530-9282,

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Authors: Hemment, Drew; Buontempo, Carlo; Dennen, Alfie;

doi: 10.1162/leon_a_00097

Climate Bubbles: Games to Monitor Urban Climate

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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.

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United Kingdom

Related Organizations

Lancaster University
United Kingdom
Met Office
United Kingdom
University of Dundee
United Kingdom

Keywords

330, Mass Participation, Climate, Locative Media, FutureEverything

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