12 youth people aged 16-18 were the first citizens involved in the “Cròniques de la Calor” (Heat Chronicle) Citizen Social Science project. Their participation was articulated through the Fundació Comtal, a civil society organization that accompany children and young people in their social, educational and emotional growth in a specific Barcelona neighborhood. During the summer, they guarantee access of the kids and youth to leisure during the summer holidays, offering an inclusive, healthy and fun space outside the school year.
In this frame, we organized two workshops that were held at the Fundació Comtal premises, with the youth participating to the July summer camp. The sessions were designed so that the youth could shape the research according to their lived experiences in the neighborhood. This included a collective mapping process to investigate the most relevant public spaces for them and the heat sensation they were experiencing when visiting them. The youth also realized a walking journey where they measured the temperatures with low-cost sensors. After a first exploration of the results, they will be collectively interpreted and discussed in during the September month.