The Urban Heat Stories workshops in the framework of the Citizen Science Award 2024 by the Austrian Agency of Education and Internationalisation concluded this week. Three different schools, making around 100 pupils participated as co-researchers in the workshop series.

Together with the research team of TU Wien Bibliothek and future.lab they gathered valuable data on the social aspects of urban heat. In semi-structured interviews the co-researchers discussed the impact that the urban heat islands effect has on their daily activities. 

As part of the workshops heat walks were carried out to measure the actual temperatures and air quality together with the environmental NGO luftdaten.at. After a first presentation of preliminary results in the Data Visualisation Space (Davis) at the TU Wien Bibliothek the results are now being prepared for publication. 

Further information: https://youngscience.at/de/awards-und-guetesiegel/citizen-science-award 

16. Fotograf Anzhelika Ikonnikova

© Anzhelika Ikonnikova