In May–June 2026, CitiObs and the Distributed Design Platform invited artists, designers, makers and collectives to explore environmental monitoring and citizen science through creative practice. The call received 213 proposals and led to five commissions, alongside a selection for the platform’s online exhibition.
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Gerardo Cruz & Luisa Tovar Méndez
NERVADURA
A project in development using sensor-equipped, moving objects to explore local environmental conditions in Valencia, with plans for community-built devices and an audiovisual response to the collected data.
LI Jiwen
Moss Walk
An open-source digital project exploring mosses and urban microclimates. It proposes community walks and mapping to build a shared digital artwork from observations of moss in the city.
Shalini Natarajan
The Air We Remember
A proposed textile archive combining cotton cloth exposed to Bengaluru’s air with residents’ audio reflections. The collected textiles would form a patchwork installation linking material traces of pollution with personal experiences.
Olivanta Mwenda
Making Air Visible
A proposal for low-cost air-quality sensing, community mapping and green-barrier prototypes in Mukuru, Nairobi, involving local youth groups and community organisations.
Gabriella Kiss
Breathing Routes
An art project in development combining walking, sensory observations, air-quality measurements and collective embroidery to create a shared textile map of urban air.
María Paz Miranda González
Salineros del Nilahue
A proposed collaboration with salt workers, combining environmental observations, historical records and collective textile art to document local knowledge and socioenvironmental change.
Oscar Ryan Ouma
Environmental Memory Maps
A community-led project in Busia, Kenya, combining storytelling, photography and participatory mapping to document environmental change around Lake Victoria through local memories and present-day observations.
Anoushka Pednekar & Amrutha Sai Kannan
The Handbook of Hope
A proposed project with Mumbai’s fishing communities, combining traditional songs and performance with community-led environmental observations to document changing coastal conditions and local knowledge.
Climate Babes
Air Chimes
A participatory project in Castelnuovo di Porto, Italy, using wind-chime-inspired installations to gather residents’ and commuters’ memories, reflections and sensory experiences of local air quality.
Jea Kyong Sim
Breathing Paper
A project using wearable hanji paper garments as material records of air pollution, bringing together changes in the paper’s appearance, participants’ photographic diaries and local air-quality data.
Noufa Shabeer
Breaking the Loop
A walk-through installation using architecture, sound and movement to explore environmental change, taking visitors through three stages centred on home, disruption and renewal.
Hanju Seo
HOMI
A sensing project using a low-cost LiDAR device to record farming movements in 3D. It explores how agricultural workers can document their contribution and retain ownership of those records.
Victoria Pham
Soil Song – Issue 01: Wilding
A planned digital journal bringing together art, environmental research and storytelling. Its first issue, Wilding, explores ecological futures and the relationship between urban life, communities and the natural world.
Dusts Institute
Dusts Catcher Kit
A low-cost, open-source kit for collecting and examining airborne dust. Designed for workshops, schools and public events, it invites people to investigate their surroundings through shared observation.
Andrea Farah Gaeta
Barrios en Resistencia
A collaborative mapping platform documenting neighbourhood businesses, local stories and community life in the Canary Islands through participatory walks, oral histories and audiovisual storytelling.
