Yellow Dust was designed by C+arquitectos / In The Air (Nerea Calvillo, Raul Nieves, Pep Tornabell, Yee Thong Chai, Marina Fernandez, Emma Garnett), a way to monitor the air that surrounds us in a different way than how the scientists and technicians of the administrations. Instead of staying hidden, having just the objective of taking accurate data, Yellow Dust opens the monitoring process in several ways showing the particulate measuring devices, while allowing you to feel the quality of the air through the contact of the cloud with the body.
Description of project by C+ arquitectos, NEREA CALVILLO
A three-dimensional water vapor canopy; Yellow Dust is a sensing and sensuous infrastructure that monitors, makes visible and partially remediates particulate matter in the air through variable clouds of yellow mist.
Composed by Do It Yourself sensors and using off-the shelf construction systems, it aims to contribute to collective forms of making air pollution visible.
In contrast to scientific and policy making versions of air monitoring, where the devices remain invisible and sensing only about the data, Yellow Dust engages with the toxicity of the city by opening up the monitoring process in various ways: revealing the monitoring technology and its measurements, communicating the quality of air pollution not through screens or numbers, but through a sensuous experience with the data, and conditioning the environment by humidifying and cooling. It also provides the information to replicate the project in other contexts, as an open source urban infrastructure.
