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AWARENESS & BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

An anti-idling campaign toolkit by TfL, targeting fleet operators.

#casestudy #awarenessraising #behaviourchange #campaign #toolkit #idling

CONVENIENCE

You can have lunch, buy a bicycle and accessories, chill out at the reading area or terrace, and also park your bicycle and have a shower before going to work.

#cycling #cyclinginfrastructure #private business

ENCOURAGE AND ENGAGE

Buy an apartment in this Brazil complex and get a free $1000 bike

COMMUNITY

Pedibus- Cycling Bus

#cycling #groupaction #social

SELF-PRESERVATION

Researchers have discovered that a plant compound most commonly found in broccoli actually helps the body naturally expel carcinogens and other toxins that are in heavily polluted air.

#mitigation #research #understandingairpollution #health

CONTEXT: Previous air quality studies

“What is a particulate matter? It sounds like something out of Dr Who!”

#understandingairpollution #publicperceptions #research

IDEAS: Future Artefact Video style-

Video exploring the future of electronic payments. It is subtle and uses conversation to explore concepts of the future of identity and interacting with money.

COMMUNITY & CONTEXT

Community air quality monitoring

#groupaction #understandingairpollution #participatorysensing #publicawareness #monitoringaq

CONTEXT: About the business model for sensors in cities

Sensors and cities: Finding a business model to justify the use of sensors

#monitoringaq #sensing #sensors #smartcities

CONTEXT: Air pollution in history

Air Pollution Advice 1947

#publicperceptions #historicalcontext

CONVENIENCE

Mo-bility

Started with human centred approach and came up with a service -Scheme that rewards journeys by public transport and bike

#sustainabletransport #cycling #groupaction

MITIGATION & SELF-PRESERVATION

Project: Liquid laundry additive turns clothes into air purifiers

Category: Easy solutions to reducing air pollution

Great ideas: Building solutions into everyday activities. Push this button/ buy this product to reduce air pollution

Barriers: Needs to be considered in relation to bigger lifestyle changes. It would be risky in making people feel complacent and that they are 'doing their bit' for air quality without seeing the bigger picture or considering action they could take to prevent instead of just cure.

Will likely only have an impact if everyone uses product, so could be segueway into communal action.

#mitigation #groupaction #product

AWARENESS

Carbon Diet- Ilmastodieetit Reality TV show- Finland

Four families working to reduce their carbon emissions over a year. The families go on a climate diet facing different challenges and setbacks. They change their lifestyles and everyday choices, and the program also teaches people how to make changes.

-Awareness and Behaviour Change

#publicawareness #publicperceptions #behaviourchange #tvshow

AWARENESS

Max Factor launches contest to find China’s most beautiful women wearing pollution masks

#publicawareness #publicperceptions #adcampaign #china #artefact

CONTEXT: Air pollution in history

Project: Smoking adverts

Category: The previously socially acceptable. Will we look back on how we live now and wonder at how we thought our existence is acceptable?

The Idea: Smoking, encouraging smoking and even the effects of second hand smoke were all acceptable normal practices. Will we look back in a few years and be astonished at how we e.g. drove cars or had barbecues and bonfires?

#publicperceptions #historicalcontext #artefact #adcampaign

UNDERSTAND

Lung in a box- Experiments to understand effects of air pollution on lungs, and create a portable sensor that shows pollution levels in relation to lung stress

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