The project DivAirCity is researching the local air pollution and testing solutions for it in Aarhus.
By Hanna Urfjell Pedersen and Bente van Diepen
Aarhus municipality has worked together with the Technological Institute and Aarhus university on this project.
“We are operating in two parallel tracks. We are introducing a new paradigm of doing air quality measurements,” says the project manager, Søren Jørgensen.
The first track is a type of measuring pollution where they strap on equipment to citizens that live their lives in different ways. This shows them how the people living their lives are exposing them to air pollution.
“We are trying to raise awareness among different target groups with our data on how they can avoid or reduce their intake of air pollution.”
The other track is a wall of plants that they will set up close to a trafficked road. On the not trafficked side of the wall, they will measure how the plants clean the polluted air.
