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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to Building Bridges to the Future: Synergies Between Art and Technology in Communicating Urban Evolution Under Climate Change
ClearPreface
This book preface introduces a collection on data visualization at the intersection of art, design, and technology. The publication is focused on information design and is not related to microplastic research.
Nexus of AI, Climatology, and Urbanism for Smart Cities
This book examines the intersection of artificial intelligence, climatology, and urban planning for smart city development, exploring how data-driven technologies can address climate change challenges including microplastics, air pollution, and urban migration. It covers topics including smart governance, green transportation, and water management for engineers, policymakers, and environmental scientists.
Visual Science Communication: The next generation scientific poster
Researchers developed a next-generation interactive scientific poster format that combines traditional academic poster elements with digital interactivity, aiming to improve how scientific findings are communicated to both professional and public audiences.
Increasing urban health awareness using an interactive approach: evidence from a school-based study
Researchers conducted a school-based study to evaluate an interactive approach for increasing urban health awareness among students, with a focus on the health consequences of climate change and urbanization. The study found evidence that participatory school interventions can improve health literacy and adaptive capacity among urban youth, supporting WHO recommendations for health-promoting schools.
The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity at the Intersection of Groundwater Management and Visualization Research
Researchers conducted a design study developing an interactive visualization prototype for temporal and spatial hydrogeological data, created in close collaboration with hydrogeological researchers to support model calibration and industry communication. Key findings from the iterative design process showed that enabling scientists to visualize their own data dramatically increased engagement among initially skeptical users, and rapid prototyping tools proved essential for unlocking the practical value of visual analytics in groundwater management.
Revealing the Invisible: Marine Plastic Waste and its Effects in Science-Inspired Visual Art
This paper explores how science-inspired visual art can make invisible marine plastic pollution perceptible to the public by translating scientific data into aesthetic experiences. The authors argue that artistic visualizations close the perceived distance between everyday life and ocean plastic harm, fostering stronger public engagement with pollution issues.
Public perceptions of climate change and health – A cross-sectional survey study
Researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey to assess public perceptions of the links between climate change and human health, examining awareness of how rising temperatures, extreme weather, air pollution, and environmental degradation affect morbidity and mortality. The study found variable levels of public understanding across demographic groups, with implications for health communication and climate policy engagement.
Exploring Animation & VFX Techniques: A Comprehensive Study in Shaping Sustainability Development in Various Sectors
This study reviews how animation and visual effects technologies are being used to communicate and advance sustainability goals across education, healthcare, urban planning, and industrial design, arguing that these tools can serve as powerful instruments for promoting environmental awareness.
Vanishing Point Unseen : an art/science collaboration and exhibition on the impact of microplastics in our oceans
This paper describes Vanishing Point, an art-science collaboration and exhibition raising public awareness of ocean plastic pollution and its ecological and social impacts. The project illustrates how scientific findings about microplastics can be communicated to broader audiences through visual art and storytelling.
Reconnecting with nature: developing urban spaces in the age of climate change
This reflective essay examined how patterns of urbanization have disconnected humans from nature, arguing that cities must incorporate green spaces and nature-based design to improve resilience and wellbeing in the context of accelerating climate change.
Co-Creation Art to Catalyse Competencies for a Sustainability Transition
This paper examines how co-creation art practices can help develop sustainability competencies that go beyond technical-financial problem-solving, fostering the creative thinking needed for transformative environmental action. Building public competency for systems thinking about environmental issues like plastic pollution is part of the educational foundation for broader societal change.
Exploring interoperability of computational models and digital twins
Researchers explored the interoperability of computational models and digital twins as tools for supporting environmental decision-making in areas including mobility, housing, and climate adaptation. The study assessed how different computational models can be integrated within digital twin frameworks to improve the accuracy and utility of virtual environmental representations.
Co‐Creatively Producing Knowledge With Other‐Than‐Human Organisms in a (Bio)Technology‐Controlled Artistic Environment
Analysis of five bio art projects involving human and non-human organism co-creation found that bio art can shift researchers and audiences from anthropocentric to ecocentric worldviews by following the behaviors of bio-organisms and making invisible connections between nature and technology visible.
Facilitating Experience through Fabrication and Blue Biophilic Design
This thesis explores design approaches inspired by the natural world to communicate the urgency of ocean pollution and climate change to the public. Effective communication of environmental problems like microplastic contamination is essential for building the public awareness needed to drive behavioral and policy change.
Transdisciplinary research: if it's so important, why aren't we all doing it?
This Dutch paper advocates for transdisciplinary research as an essential approach for tackling complex environmental challenges, describing practical steps for collaboration between academic and applied researchers.
Methods of Solving Complex Problems in Science
This methodology paper discusses approaches to solving complex problems in science and technology, using tourism architecture as a case study. The general research frameworks discussed are applicable to the multidisciplinary challenges of understanding and managing microplastic pollution.
Transdisciplinary, Co-Designed and Adaptive Management for the Sustainable Development of Rongcheng, a Coastal City in China in the Context of Human Activities and Climate Change
A transdisciplinary adaptive management framework was developed for sustainable coastal city development in Rongcheng, China, integrating ecological, social, and climate change considerations into a co-designed governance approach. The study demonstrates how systems thinking can guide coastal city management to balance economic growth with environmental resilience.
Scientific, societal and pedagogical approaches to tackle the impact of climate change on marine pollution
Researchers combined ocean elevation data, climate models, and computer simulations to show that climate change could alter the concentration and flow of marine pollution across European seas, identifying rivers near cities, coastal population growth, shipping lanes, and industrial fishing as the main sources of ocean contamination.
Evolution and innovation: Contemporary trends in graphic design
Despite its title referencing innovation and contemporary trends, this paper studies graphic design practices and the skills required for designers working in a digital, user-centric environment — not microplastic pollution. It examines design trends and methodologies and is not relevant to microplastics or human health.
The Urban River Syndrome: Achieving Sustainability Against a Backdrop of Accelerating Change
This review examines the Urban River Syndrome -- the cumulative degradation of rivers from millennia of human activity -- and explores frameworks for achieving sustainability in urban river management against a backdrop of accelerating environmental change.
Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene
This book examines how posthuman conservation frameworks can be visualised and applied in the context of the Anthropocene, exploring the intersection of human activity, ecological change, and conservation philosophy.
Eco-Art and Reeling in Anthropogenic Adversity
This paper explores how eco-art practices can raise awareness of anthropogenic pollution, including microplastics, by engaging communities through creative and visual approaches. The authors argue that artistic interventions can complement scientific communication in addressing environmental adversity.
Full Issue, Volume 3
Researchers developed a virtual reality framework to engage people living in coastal cities with flood hazard awareness, addressing the tendency to underestimate climate-change-driven increases in coastal flood frequency and magnitude through immersive visual storytelling.
Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork
This study explores how upcycling discarded plastics into artwork can serve as a tool for environmental education about plastic pollution. Researchers describe an art installation collaboration that brought together the art world and environmental advocacy to raise public awareness. The study suggests that creative approaches to reusing plastic waste can effectively engage communities in understanding the scale and consequences of plastic pollution.