ACTION LAB

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (DE)

Online

Paticipatory Science against Pollution

Pollution is one of the most critical contemporary environmental challenges. To tackle it, everyone must be involved. The ACTION Lab offers a chance to engage with cutting-edge citizen science projects that are not only addressing pollution, but also working within the ACTION project to make citizen science participatory, inclusive and citizen-led. Join us to explore light pollution, noise pollution, air pollution and hands-on mitigation of bioplastic pollution.

The project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 824603.

Timetable

Program

Bioplastics and the New Materiality of Waste
Idil Akdos (NO)

How do we dispose of new materials safely? The CitiComPlastic team investigate how bioplastic waste can be safely transformed into compost. Join them to discuss how new materiality interfaces with environmental issues, and how we need to change our practices, structures, policies and perspectives to address this.

Schools and the Science of Air Pollution
Sonja Grossberndt (NO)

Together with teachers and students, the team from NILU shows us how to make low cost air quality sensors, and how to best use them to investigate air quality.

What is Noise? Interdisciplinary Discussion
Marc Aguilar and Víctor Jiménez (ES)

The team behind Noise Maps invite international experts in noise and sound to discuss our attitudes to noise, its effects and affect, and our agency in shaping soundscapes in this panel discussion with time for audience questions.

Sonic Heritage of Inner City Barcelona
Marc Aguilar and Víctor Jiménez (ES)

Bit Lab Cultural Cooperative work on Noise Maps with residents of Raval to gather audio recordings using audio moths placed around the city, and learn how to best investigate urban noise.

Loss of the Night
Helga Kuechly, Chris Kyba (DE)

The Loss of the Night team explains how light pollution affects our view of the night sky, and how our experience can be transformed into data. The presentation will kick-off a 24-hour global observation, where teams around the globe will tune in to show us what the night sky is like in their location, with the help of the Loss of the Night app.

Tired Moths and Quiet Stars
Sibylle Schroer (DE)

The ‘Crime Scene’ Streetlight project works with citizens and schools to research the effect of the design of street lamps on flying insect populations. Join the team at Brandenburg maker-hub Verstehbahnhof, where local teenagers will be gathering data about pollution; before touring the four Tatort Streetlight locations and learning how to identify flying insects.

Street Spectra – Join the Streetlights Hunting!
Lucía García (ES)

Turn your smartphone into a scientific instrument using a cheap diffraction grating. The Street Spectra citizen science project lets you get surprising pictures of the colourful spectra produced by the streetlamps in your neighborhood.

ACTION Project
European Union
IGB Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei