New Nature - Artist Talk with Nerea Calvillo | Data and technology

With her data visualization project for Barcelona In the Air, artist and architect Nerea Calvillo, created a platform for individual and collective awareness about air quality in the city to enable its inhabitants to take conscious decisions about how to navigate through the city.

Rewatch the whole artist talk with interdisciplinary architect, designer and researcher Nerea Calvillo and environmental researcher Nick Shapiro here:

About Nerea Calvillo
Nerea Calvillo investigates the material, technological, political and social dimensions of environmental pollution. This has led her to analyze notions of toxicity, digital infrastructures of environmental monitoring, DIY and collaborative forms of production, smart cities, and feminist approaches to sensing the environment, among others. She is the founder of the collaborative visualization project In the Air and the architecture office C+arquitectos. Her current work, including Yellow Dust, is on toxic politics, pollen and queer urban political ecologies. Nerea is an associate professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She is working on a book manuscript on Aeropolis.