This project aims to address the invisibility of urban air pollution and its unequal impacts by helping New Haven students interpret local air quality data through creative practice.
Building on the Resounding Nature platform, which engages young people in turning real environmental data into music, we will develop an “Air Quality” edition of the app using the city’s PurpleAir sensor network. PurpleAir sensors are widely used, low-cost monitors that measure fine particulate matter (the microscopic pollution from traffic, industry, and wildfire smoke) in near real time.
Working with after-school programs Music Haven and LEAP, students will use sonification (data-to-sound mapping) to translate these readings into musical compositions and performances, building environmental and civic literacy through publicly available data.
