Title: Open and community science projects Subtitle: Colaborative design of a Free air quality Monitor
Open science means to openly and colaboratively produce scientific knowledge, leaving freely available not only the work instruments but also the intermediate and final results obtained during this process. This way of doing science changes the scientific knowledge production because it is more efficient, democratic and has the potential to better meet social demands. The case we are going to take as a practice to learn to do open science starts with the idea that air pollution is an invisible thread that affects the health of 80% of the population in urban centers like Buenos Aires. In 2016, the WHO classified Buenos Aires as one of the cities that exceed the limit of 10 μg/m3 for particulate material less than 2.5 microns, highly harmful to human health. Despite that, public information about air quality in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area is non-existent. Private measurements are expensive and inaccessible, and data is difficult to read. Our goal is to reflect and learn about the methodology that will lead us to build a device to measure the quality of the air (PM2.5 and PM10), based on the MACA Project. We do this together with teachers of José León Suárez, community leaders and all those interested in collaborating with the generation of free educational materials so that the experience can be reproduced. We think that people have to know which are the available tools that can help them make visible and find solutions to their everyday problems. By combining low cost sensors available in the market with the ethics and philosophy of free software, we want to show how free tools can be built that are useful for people.
** Name of building and/or headquarters: ** Casa UNSAM of Technical Secondary School. New EST-UNSAM building. Parish Hall Inmaculada. Community Garden "La Colmenita". Community Center "Crecer de a poco". ** Classroom (name): ** ** Floor (if applicable): ** ** Address (street and number, or intersection of two streets): ** ** City: ** José León Suarez.
Date (mention day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.)) (Day and month) (eg Wednesday, October 5) Title (up to 50 characters) Subtitle (if applicable, up to 55 characters) Content (up to 3 rows in Arial 11)
Title: ¿What is open and community science?. Subtitle: Project and Knowledge mapping. Contents: Community Science Origins. Different approaches to science. The ETER project in the Reconquista area. The hacker ethic. Responsible: Julieta A
Title: About Free machines, open data and collaborative humans. Subtitle: Introduction to Free Culture and its experiences in the world. Contents: Free monitors, hardware and software basics. Open Source and Free Software in the neighborhoods of the planet: utilities and opportunities. The app to prevent floods EST-UNSAM. Responsible: Vladimir
Title: The struggles to release knowledge. Subtitle: Data, information, communication, rights and power. Contents: Methods to search, analyze, present and use the available data. The case of Aaron Swartz. Community experiences: the Reconquista Table. Responsible: Dani
Title: Games and applications to learn how to implement Open and Community Science. Subtitle: Learning by playing and doing science. Contents: Introduction to the theories and practices of the game. The ludic and the learning. The design of a game seen from inside. Responsible: Panda / Julieta Y.
Title: Measuring our environment is also taking care of it. Subtitle: Analog and digital methods available to all. Contents: Monitors, sensors and spreadsheets. Experiences and international networks. The experience of UNSAM Sustentable. Cooperatives of waste pickers in the Reconquista area. The Vagrant Republic: iconoclasts. The Aerocene project. Responsible: To be defined
Title: Hackable manual for open science projects. Subtitle: Practical workshop for the design of a didactic material. Contents: Responsible: To be defined
(Complete Name and Surname, Position (student, teacher, director, coordinator, member, etc.), Career (if applicable), Institution)
- Organizer 1 (Name and Surname, Position, Career, Institution): Daniel Daza Prado, PhD student Social and Cultural Anthropology IDAES-UNSAM.
- Organizer 2 (Name and Surname, Position, Career, Institution): Julieta Arancio
- Organizer 3 (Name and Surname, Position, Career, Institution): David
- Organizer 4 (Name and Surname, Position, Career, Institution): Patricia
All encounters will take place in the Reconquista area.