Invitation to the Citizen Science Forum "Making Sense of Citizen Sensing" on air quality and quality of life in cities15.05.2025 | 11:00 - 16:00 | Centre for Technology and Society, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104, 10553 Berlin
How can citizens actively shape the quality of air and life in their city? What role does citizen science play when it comes to reducing traffic pollution, sharpening environmental perception and collecting and analysing environmental data in a meaningful way and using it to help shape Urban Planning? The "Making Sense of Citizen Sensing" forum invites you to reflect on the opportunities and challenges of citizen science projects in measuring quality of life. In a varied programme of keynote speeches, a data karaoke and working groups, we will engage in practical discussions with various stakeholders.
Research and learning at the interface of environment, society and technology
The department researches and teaches on the multiple interactions of technological and social development and their impact on the environment, as well as the influence of a changing environment on society.
Our projects are inter- and transdisciplinary: We integrate scientific knowledge from different disciplines as well as experiential knowledge from the lifeworlds and practical fields of various social actors.
In doing so, we generate three forms of knowledge:
- System knowledge - on the genesis and character of complex socio-ecological problems.
- Target knowledge - on the socially desirable as well as intrageneratinally and intergenerationally equitable development goals
- Transformation knowledge - on the approaches to solutions and transformation paths towards sustainability.
We are open to requests for project work, bachelor's and master's theses as well as PhD topics from students and young researchers!