Nuestro Aire
Nuestro Aire is a design developed with community justice group El Puente, leveraging ATTRACT’s H-CUBE compact ThZ sensor technology to create an affordable, distributable tool for community air quality monitoring. Nuestro Aire “blows the whistle” on invisible air pollution detected in saliva, translating particulate detection into comprehensive data and open-sourced monitoring to support youth-led reform.
OVERVIEW
Developed with IdeaSquare, the Innovation Space at CERN (The European Center for Nuclear Research) as a joint project with EU’s ATTRACT and the UN’s Solution Space focused on translating deep tech into citizen science tools addressing Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing.
Design research team comprised of Mary Lempres, Charlotte Böhning, Ridima Jain, and Helio Takai.
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