EMPOWERING CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO TRACK AND TOGETHER PREVENT MARINE POLLUTION
The Testing Our Waters project offers a multi-pronged, design centered approach to reducing the accumulation of plastics in local waterways and international oceans through active community engagement and policy change. We will be designing Do It Yourself (DIY) trawls for citizen scientists to make and use in their nearby marine environments. Pollution collected in the trawls will be documented via a smartphone application and uploaded to a website platform. Results will build an online engaged community, regularly notify environmental stewards of the problem and propose policy changes.
In collaboration with:
Grant funding provided by:
The New School - Tishman Environment and Design Center
Testing Our Waters is a project of Anthropocene.Design NGO.