This interview, organised by the DIATI department of the Polytechnic University of Turin, is linked to the project SCoolAir project, presented ‘in the field’ at Cecchi Point during the course ‘Immaginare il Futuro‘ (Imagining the Future).
Air pollution was the first environmental phenomenon to emerge as a public issue to be addressed politically and legislatively as early as the middle of the last century. It therefore plays a key role in the complex relationship between anthropogenic transformations of the environment, the environment itself, and our awareness of our role as humans.
Even today, different interests converge and clash around air pollution and, in particular, around the issue of air quality, giving rise to complex political dynamics that directly involve citizens, as well as technological devices, scientific practices and institutions.
Air pollution is therefore an area in which to observe and experiment with ways of monitoring, managing and transforming our environment and our daily practices that may have broader relevance than the issues raised by climate change. This is also because air pollution has complex relationships with the dynamics of climate change and, in particular, global warming.
