Our value driven cooperation AiREAS was rewarded the first price in the category "partners" in the European region for the VINCI Innovation Awards. Co-founder Marco van Lochem was in Frankfurt to receive the honours and price.
Breda is the third town in the Netherlands to use the AiREAS air quality measurement equipment and second town (after Eindhoven) to work in the multidisciplinary cocreation format.
Today the backpack project started in Eindhoven, a joint exercise between TNO, IRAS and AiREAS. People measure their exposure to air pollution during their daily lifestyle and routines.
Visualizing the invisible in air quality and pollution has a cultural effect
An evening session on persuasive technologies at STIR Academy proved to be highly inspiration for AiREAS initiatives and partnerships that use technology to persuade policy makers and citizens to develop their own "healthy city" eco system.
The global issues of air quality and pollution are become more visible through social media and open data development. They form increasingly a source for inspiration and new value driven propositions at universities and Hackathons.
Intercultural communication experiment in Eindhoven and social cohesion around health and air quality
The proof of principle for health check, e-Health lifestyle research in relation to the local air quality and innovative drive, has started in Eindhoven with a testgroup of 30 people. Here is an impression.
The impressive document of Ms Chai Ling about air polution is showing how people can break through in awareness and take responsibility above politics and economics.
An interesting natural process showed us the need to understand climat and human interaction through the creation of a sensorial ecosystem in the city. In Eindhoven we do this producing instant feedback to the population.