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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds
    1. Toolkit 1. Citizen Sense Toolkit
  8. 1. Instrumental Citizens: How to Retool Action
    1. Toolkit 2. Frackbox Toolkit
  9. 2. Speculative Citizens: How to Evidence Harm
    1. Toolkit 3. Dustbox Toolkit
  10. 3. Data Citizens: How to Reinvent Rights
    1. Toolkit 4. Phyto-Sensor Toolkit
  11. 4. Multiple Citizens: How to Cultivate Relations
    1. Toolkit 5. AirKit Toolkit
  12. Conclusion. Sensing Citizens: How to Collectivize Experience
  13. Plates
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About the Author

Toolkit 5

AirKit Toolkit

AirKit Logbook documenting instructions for how to make and calibrate a Dustbox 2.0.

Model of Dustbox 2.0 components, including particulate matter sensor, USB power, and printed circuit board.

The AirKit toolkit creates a citizen-sensing infrastructure for monitoring air pollution. It consists of a logbook, a second-generation Dustbox, an Airsift platform, and a tool for writing data stories. More information is available at https://citizensense.net/projects/#airkit. Illustration above by Sarah Garcin, illustration below by Andrea Rinaldi; courtesy of Citizen Sense. This toolkit can be found in a more extensive form online at https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/citizens-of-worlds/resource/airkit-logbook.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 313347, “Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice: Assessing Participatory Engagements with Environments through Sensor Technologies.”

Portions of chapter 2 are adapted from “Citizen Sensing, Air Pollution, and Fracking: From ‘Caring about Your Air’ to Speculative Practices of Evidencing Harm,” Sociological Review monograph series 65, no. 2 (2017): 179–92; doi: 10.1177/0081176917710421, originally published by SAGE. Portions of chapter 3 are adapted from “Data Citizens: How to Reinvent Rights,” in Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights, edited by Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, and Evelyn Ruppert (Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology, 2019), 248–66. Portions of chapter 4 are adapted from “Sensing Lichens: From Ecological Microcosms to Environmental Subjects,” Third Text 32, no. 2 (2018): 350–67; doi: 10.1080/09528822.2018.1483884. Portions of chapter 4 are adapted from “Phyto-Sensor Toolkit: Cultivating the Swamps of Urban Air,” in Swamps and the New Imagination, edited by Nomeda Urbonas, Gediminas Urbonas, and Kristupas Sabolius (London: Sternberg Press, 2022).

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