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Exploring the Indoor Environmental Quality on sleep quality when suffering from dementia

The benefits of having a high indoor environmental quality (IEQ) for a healthy life and optimal performance are well known. In addition, research has been executed on the effects of indoor environmental parameters such as (day)light, sound/ acoustics, temperature, and air quality on people living with dementia.

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Positive effects of indoor environmental conditions on students and their performance in higher education classrooms: A between-groups experiment

This study explores if multiple alterations of the classrooms' indoor environmental conditions, which lead to environmental conditions meeting quality class A of Dutch guidelines, result in a positive effect on students' perceptions and performance. A field study, with a between-group experimental design, was conducted during the academic course in 2020–2021. First, the reverberation time (RT) was lowered in the intervention condition to 0.4 s (control condition 0.6 s). Next, the horizontal illuminance (HI) level was raised in the intervention condition to 750 lx (control condition 500 lx). Finally, the indoor air quality (IAQ) in both conditions was improved by increasing the ventilation rate, resulting in a reduction of carbon dioxide concentrations, as a proxy for IAQ, from ~1100 to <800 ppm. During seven campaigns, students' perceptions of indoor environmental quality, health, emotional status, cognitive performance, and quality of learning were measured at the end of each lecture using questionnaires. Furthermore, students' objective cognitive responses were measured with psychometric tests of neurobehavioural functions. Students' short-term academic performance was evaluated with a content-related test. From 201 students, 527 responses were collected. The results showed that the reduction of the RT positively influenced students' perceived cognitive performance. A reduced RT in combination with raised HI improved students' perceptions of the lighting environment, internal responses, and quality of learning. However, this experimental condition negatively influenced students' ability to solve problems, while students' content-related test scores were not influenced. This shows that although quality class A conditions for RT and HI improved students' perceptions, it did not influence their short-term academic performance. Furthermore, the benefits of reduced RT in combination with raised HI were not observed in improved IAQ conditions. Whether the sequential order of the experimental conditions is relevant in inducing these effects and/or whether improving two parameters is already beneficial, is unknown.

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Positive effects of indoor environmental conditions on students and their performance in higher education classrooms: A between-groups experiment

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Dementia Enlightened?!

Light therapy for older persons with dementia is often administered with light boxes, even though indoor ambient light may more comfortably support the diverse lighting needs of this population. Our objective is to investigate the influence of indoor daylight and lighting on the health of older adults with dementia living in long-term care facilities. A systematic literature search was performed within PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science and Scopus databases. The included articles (n=37) were published from 1991 to 2020. These articles researched the influence of existing and changed indoor light conditions on health and resulted in seven categories of health outcomes. Although no conclusive evidence was found to support the ability of indoor light to decrease challenging behaviors or improve circadian rhythms, findings of two studies indicate that exposure to (very) cool light of moderate intensity diminished agitation. Promising effects of indoor light were to reduce depressive symptoms and facilitate spatial orientation. Furthermore, there were indications that indoor light improved one’s quality of life. Despite interventions with dynamic lighting having yielded little evidence of its efficacy, its potential has been insufficiently researched among this study population. This review provides a clear and comprehensive description of the impact of diverse indoor light conditions on the health of older adults with dementia living in long-term care facilities. Variation was seen in terms of research methods, (the description of) light conditions, and participants’ characteristics (types and severity of dementia), thus confounding the reliability of the findings. The authors recommend further research to corroborate the beneficial effects of indoor light on depression and to clarify its role in supporting everyday activities of this population. An implication for practice in long-term care facilities is raising the awareness of the increased lighting needs of aged residents. Original article at: https://doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S297865

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Examining in-class activities to facilitate academic achievement in higher education

There is an increasing interest in how to create an effective and comfortable indoor environment for lecturers and students in higher education. To achieve evidence-based improvements in the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of higher education learning environments, this research aimed to gain new knowledge for creating optimal indoor environmental conditions that best facilitate in-class activities, i.e. teaching and learning, and foster academic achievement. The academic performance of lecturers and students is subdivided into short-term academic performance, for example, during a lecture and long-term academic performance, during an academic course or year, for example. First, a systematic literature review was conducted to reveal the effect of indoor environmental quality in classrooms in higher education on the quality of teaching, the quality of learning, and students’ academic achievement. With the information gathered on the applied methods during the literature review, a systematic approach was developed and validated to capture the effect of the IEQ on the main outcomes. This approach enables research that aims to examine the effect of all four IEQ parameters, indoor air quality, thermal conditions, lighting conditions, and acoustic conditions on students’ perceptions, responses, and short-term academic performance in the context of higher education classrooms. Next, a field experiment was conducted, applying the validated systematic approach, to explore the effect of multiple indoor environmental parameters on students and their short-term academic performance in higher education. Finally, a qualitative case study gathered lecturers’ and students’ perceptions related to the IEQ. Furthermore, how these users interact with the environment to maintain an acceptable IEQ was studied. During the systematic literature review, multiple scientific databases were searched to identify relevant scientific evidence. After the screening process, 21 publications were included. The collected evidence showed that IEQ can contribute positively to students’ academic achievement. However, it can also affect the performance of students negatively, even if the IEQ meets current standards for classrooms’ IEQ conditions. Not one optimal IEQ was identified after studying the evidence. Indoor environmental conditions in which students perform at their best differ and are task depended, indicating that classrooms should facilitate multiple indoor environmental conditions. Furthermore, the evidence provides practical information for improving the design of experimental studies, helps researchers in identifying relevant parameters, and lists methods to examine the influence of the IEQ on users. The measurement methods deduced from the included studies of the literature review, were used for the development of a systematic approach measuring classroom IEQ and students’ perceived IEQ, internal responses, and short-term academic performance. This approach allowed studying the effect of multiple IEQ parameters simultaneously and was tested in a pilot study during a regular academic course. The perceptions, internal responses, and short-term academic performance of participating students were measured. The results show associations between natural variations of the IEQ and students’ perceptions. These perceptions were associated with their physiological and cognitive responses. Furthermore, students’ perceived cognitive responses were associated with their short-term academic performance. These observed associations confirm the construct validity of the composed systematic approach. S Summary 9 This systematic approach was then applied in a field experiment, to explore the effect of multiple indoor environmental parameters on students and their short-term academic performance in higher education. A field study, with a between-groups experimental design, was conducted during a regular academic course in 2020-2021 to analyze the effect of different acoustic, lighting, and indoor air quality (IAQ) conditions. First, the reverberation time was manipulated to 0.4 s in the intervention condition (control condition 0.6 s). Second, the horizontal illuminance level was raised from 500 to 750 lx in the intervention condition (control condition 500 lx). These conditions correspond with quality class A (intervention condition) and B (control condition), specified in Dutch IEQ guidelines for school buildings (2015). Third, the IAQ, which was ~1100 ppm carbon dioxide (CO2), as a proxy for IAQ, was improved to CO2 concentrations under 800 ppm, meeting quality class A in both conditions. Students’ perceptions were measured during seven campaigns with a questionnaire; their actual cognitive and shortterm academic performances were evaluated with validated tests and an academic test, composed by the lecturer, as a subject-matter-expert on the taught topic, covered subjects discussed during the lecture. From 201 students 527 responses were collected and analyzed. A reduced RT in combination with raised HI improved students’ perceptions of the lighting environment, internal responses, and quality of learning. However, this experimental condition negatively influenced students’ ability to solve problems, while students' content-related test scores were not influenced. This shows that although quality class A conditions for RT and HI improved students’ perceptions, it did not influence their short-term academic performance. Furthermore, the benefits of reduced RT in combination with raised HI were not observed in improved IAQ conditions. Whether the sequential order of the experimental conditions is relevant in inducing these effects and/or whether improving two parameters is already beneficial, is unknown Finally, a qualitative case study explored lecturers’ and students’ perceptions of the IEQ of classrooms, which are suitable to give tutorials with a maximum capacity of about 30 students. Furthermore, how lecturers and students interact with this indoor environment to maintain an acceptable IEQ was examined. Eleven lecturers of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (UAS), located in the northern part of the Netherlands, and twenty-four of its students participated in three focus group discussions. The findings show that lecturers and students experience poor thermal, lighting, acoustic, and IAQ conditions which may influence teaching and learning performance. Furthermore, maintaining acceptable thermal and IAQ conditions was difficult for lecturers as opening windows or doors caused noise disturbances. In uncomfortable conditions, lecturers may decide to pause earlier or shorten a lecture. When students experienced discomfort, it may affect their ability to concentrate, their emotional status, and their quality of learning. Acceptable air and thermal conditions in classrooms will mitigate the need to open windows and doors. This allows lecturers to keep doors and windows closed, combining better classroom conditions with neither noise disturbances nor related distractions. Designers and engineers should take these end users’ perceptions into account, often monitored by facility management (FM), during the renovation or construction of university buildings to achieve optimal IEQ conditions in higher education classrooms. Summary 10 The results of these four studies indicate that there is not a one-size fits all indoor environmental quality to facilitate optimal in-class activities. Classrooms’ thermal environment should be effectively controlled with the option of a local (manual) intervention. Classrooms’ lighting conditions should also be adjustable, both in light color and light intensity. This enables lecturers to adjust the indoor environment to facilitate in-class activities optimally. Lecturers must be informed by the building operator, for example, professionals of the Facility Department, how to change classrooms’ IEQ settings. And this may differ per classroom because each building, in which the classroom is located, is operated differently apart from the classroom location in the building, exposure to the environment, and its use. The knowledge that has come available from this study, shows that optimal indoor environmental conditions can positively influence lecturers’ and students’ comfort, health, emotional balance, and performance. These outcomes have the capacity to contribute to an improved school climate and thus academic achievement.

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Against GPS: VIO-WareDrones

Drones have been verified as the camera of 2024 due to the enormous exponential growth in terms of the relevant technologies and applications such as smart agriculture, transportation, inspection, logistics, surveillance and interaction. Therefore, the commercial solutions to deploy drones in different working places have become a crucial demand for companies. Warehouses are one of the most promising industrial domains to utilize drones to automate different operations such as inventory scanning, goods transportation to the delivery lines, area monitoring on demand and so on. On the other hands, deploying drones (or even mobile robots) in such challenging environment needs to enable accurate state estimation in terms of position and orientation to allow autonomous navigation. This is because GPS signals are not available in warehouses due to the obstruction by the closed-sky areas and the signal deflection by structures. Vision-based positioning systems are the most promising techniques to achieve reliable position estimation in indoor environments. This is because of using low-cost sensors (cameras), the utilization of dense environmental features and the possibilities to operate in indoor/outdoor areas. Therefore, this proposal aims to address a crucial question for industrial applications with our industrial partners to explore limitations and develop solutions towards robust state estimation of drones in challenging environments such as warehouses and greenhouses. The results of this project will be used as the baseline to develop other navigation technologies towards full autonomous deployment of drones such as mapping, localization, docking and maneuvering to safely deploy drones in GPS-denied areas.

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Automotion

In de automotive sector vindt veel onderzoek en ontwikkeling plaats op het gebied van autonome voertuigtechnologie. Dit resulteert in rijke open source software oplossingen voor besturing van robotvoertuigen. HAN heeft met haar Streetdrone voertuig reeds goede praktijkervaring met dergelijke software. Deze oplossingen richten zich op een Operational Design Domain dat uitgaat van de publieke verkeersinfrastructuur met daarbij de weggebruikers rondom het robotvoertuig. In de sectoren agrifood en smart industry is een groeiende behoefte aan automatisering van mobiele machinerie, versterkt door de actuele coronacrisis. Veel functionaliteit van bovengenoemde automotive software is inzetbaar voor mobiele robotica in deze sectoren. De toepassingen zijn enerzijds minder veeleisend - denk aan de meer gestructureerde omgeving, lagere snelheden en minder of geen ‘overige weggebruikers’ – en anderzijds heel specifiek als het gaat over routeplanning en (indoor) lokalisatie. Vanwege dit specifiek karakter is de bestaande software niet direct inzetbaar in deze sectoren. Het MKB in deze sectoren ervaart daarom een grote uitdaging om dergelijke complexe autonome functionaliteit beschikbaar te maken, zonder dat men kan voorbouwen een open, sectorspecifieke softwareoplossing. In Automotion willen de aangesloten partners vanuit bestaande kennis en ervaring tot een eerste integratie en demonstratie komen van een beschikbare automotive open source softwarebibliotheek, aangepast en specifiek ingezet op rijdende robots voor agrifood en smart industry, met focus ‘pickup and delivery’ scenario’s. Hierbij worden de aanpassingen - nieuwe en herschreven ‘boeken’ in de ‘bibliotheek’ - weer in open source gepubliceerd ter versterking van het MKB en het onderwijs. Parallel hieraan willen de partners ontdekken welke praktijkvragen uit dit proces voortvloeien en welke onderliggende kennislacunes in de toekomst moeten worden ingevuld. Via open workshops met uitnodigingen in diverse netwerken worden vele partijen uitgenodigd om gezamenlijk aan de hand van de opgedane ervaringen van gedachten te wisselen over actuele kennisvragen en mogelijke gezamenlijke toekomstige beantwoording daarvan.

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Autonoom navigeren met drones in magazijnen

Voor zowel de jaarcijfers als de leverbetrouwbaarheid is het noodzakelijk om voorraad in een magazijn te tellen. Vaak gebeurt dit periodiek. Een populair fenomeen is Cycle Counting, dit betekent dat alle voorraad (op een gedefinieerd moment) wordt geteld, bijvoorbeeld elke 90 dagen. Het tellen van voorraad wordt handmatig uitgevoerd door medewerkers. De medewerkers worden gestuurd naar een locatie in het magazijn die minder dan 90 dagen geleden is geteld, gevraagd wordt of deze pallet nog op de locatie aanwezig is en wat het aantal stuks is. Het idee is om dit proces te automatiseren met een drone. De drone moet in staat zijn om autonoom in een gangpad te navigeren en opnames te maken van de voorraad. Vervolgens kunnen deze beelden geanalyseerd worden en de juiste locatie aan het juiste palletnummer worden gelinkt. Ook zouden lege locaties herkend kunnen worden om vervolgens te controleren of deze overeenstemmen met data uit het voorraadbeheersysteem. Autonoom navigeren met een drone die buiten vliegt op basis van GPS is een commodity. Een drone autonoom indoor te laten navigeren in een GPS-deprived omgeving is op zich al een uitdaging. Om echter van de toepassing een commercieel succes te maken moet dit een zo goedkoop mogelijke drone zijn waar, behalve de camera, zo min mogelijk extra sensoren aan worden toegevoegd. Het idee achter dit project is om een vooronderzoek uit te voeren naar de mogelijkheden om drones autonoom te laten navigeren in magazijnen. Indien dit mogelijk is kan verder onderzoek plaats vinden hoe met behulp van drones Cycle Counting geautomatiseerd kan worden. De Twirre architectuur biedt een goed uitgangspunt om het autonoom vliegen met drones in een magazijn te ontwikkelen. De projectpartners hebben met dit KIEM project de volgende doelstellingen: • onderzoeken of visuele markers in combinatie met een camera gebruikt kunnen worden om in een magazijn de positie van een drone te bepalen; • indien nodig inventariseren welke extra sensoren gebruikt kunnen worden om in een magazijn de positie van een drone te bepalen; • onderzoeken of door alleen van de camerasensor gebruik te maken in een magazijn obstakels kunnen worden gedetecteerd die ontweken moeten worden; • indien nodig inventariseren welke sensoren gebruikt kunnen worden om in een magazijn obstakels te kunnen detecteren die ontweken moeten worden; • keuzes maken voor positie- en antibots-sensoren, deze integreren in de Twirre architectuur; • een drone met de uitgebreide Twirre architectuur testen in een magazijn, autonoom door de gangen in het magazijn te vliegen, de positienauwkeurigheid te bepalen en de botspreventie te testen; • daarmee de basis leggen voor een vervolgproject gericht op het ontwikkelen van een platform dat op basis van een autonoom vliegende drone Cycle Counting kan uitvoeren.

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CyberTest

Demografische ontwikkeling stellen de zorg voor grote uitdagingen. Het personeelstekort neemt toe en de zorgvraag zal sterk blijven stijgen. Er is groeiende noodzaak voor automatisering die de zorgprofessional ondersteunt, zoals robots voor logistieke taken in ziekenhuizen (vervoer van bedden/medicijnen/lab-samples,…). Die robots moeten vlot en veilig tussen professionals, zieken en bezoekers door kunnen navigeren. Ze moeten begrijpbaar, geaccepteerd en veilig gedrag vertonen terwijl tegelijkertijd de performance (lees: bezorgtijd) daar niet onder mag lijden. Autonome voertuigen en mobiele robots kunnen al goed functioneren in gestructureerde omgevingen zoals autosnelwegen en afgesloten magazijnen. Het wordt uitdagender bij interactie met mensen die onverwacht gedrag kunnen vertonen. Autonome voertuigen hebben bijvoorbeeld moeite met stadscentra waar voetgangers en fietsers grootschalig verkeerregels overtreden. De automotive sector heeft de SOTIF (Safety-Of-The-Intended-Functionality) standaard geadopteerd. SOTIF onderscheidt ‘safe/unsafe’ en ‘known/unknown’ gebruiksscenario’s en promoot een proces van geautomatiseerd virtueel testen, waarbij een groeiende scenariodatabase zich richt op minimalisatie van unknown en/of unsafe scenario’s. Deze benadering stimuleert continue verbetering van performance en veiligheid en zou ook de interactie van mobiele zorgrobots met mensen sterk kunnen verbeteren. De software tools hiervoor zijn echter duur en momenteel sterk automotive georiënteerd. HAN gebruikt in diverse onderzoeksprojecten de open-source CARLA verkeersimulator. CARLA kan voetgangers simuleren, inclusief de nodige voertuig/robotsensoren voor perceptie van deze voetgangers. Daarbij heeft CARLA support voor OpenSCENARIO, een standaard om gebruiksscenario’s te beschrijven, en een interface met ROS (Robot Operating System), dat door Ambee en HAN wordt gebruikt voor ontwikkeling van robotbesturing. Cybertest onderzoekt bruikbaarheid van CARLA voor indoor zorgtoepassingen, middels creatie van een proof-of-concept van een scenariogebaseerde virtuele verificatie&validatie omgeving, gebruikmakend van CARLA en OpenSCENARIO. Het open-source karakter van CARLA biedt flexibiliteit voor aanpassing richting indoor omgevingen, biedt betaalbaarheid voor het MKB en laat zich flexibel inzetten in het onderwijs.

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Epy Drost as a Living Lab

A world where technology is ubiquitous and embedded in our daily lives is becoming increasingly likely. To prepare our students to live and work in such a future, we propose to turn Saxion’s Epy-Drost building into a living lab environment. This will entail setting up and drafting the proper infrastructure and agreements to collect people’s location and building data (e.g. temperature, humidity) in Epy-Drost, and making the data appropriately available to student and research projects within Saxion. With regards to this project’s effect on education, we envision the proposal of several derived student projects which will provide students the opportunity to work with huge amounts of data and state-of-the-art natural interaction interfaces. Through these projects, students will acquire skills and knowledge that are necessary in the current and future labor-market, as well as get experience in working with topics of great importance now and in the near future. This is not only aligned with the Creative Media and Game Technologies (CMGT) study program’s new vision and focus on interactive technology, but also with many other education programs within Saxion. In terms of research, the candidate Postdoc will study if and how the data, together with the building’s infrastructure, can be leveraged to promote healthy behavior through playful strategies. In other words, whether we can persuade people in the building to be more physically active and engage more in social interactions through data-based gamification and building actuation. This fits very well with the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) research group’s agenda in Augmented Interaction, and CMGT’s User Experience line. Overall, this project will help spark and solidify lasting collaboration links between AmI and CMGT, give body to AmI’s new Augmented Interaction line, and increase Saxion’s level of education through the dissemination of knowledge between researchers, teachers and students.

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FlavourFull Beverages

De vraag naar gezonde, frisse dranken stijgt snel. Maar om een breed publiek aan te spreken, moeten deze dranken ook lekker zijn. Het FlavourFull Beverages project speelt in op deze behoefte door zich te richten op kombucha, een gefermenteerde drank op basis van thee die bekend staat om zijn gezondheidsvoordelen. Het doel van het project is om kombucha op een duurzame manier te voorzien van lekkere, verfijnde smaken. Hiervoor zal gebruik gemaakt worden van smaakextracten van Zeeuwse planten en reststromen. Smaakextracten kunnen immers de smaak van kombucha versterken zonder het suikergehalte te verhogen. Met deze KIEM GoChem aanvraag wil HZ University of Applied Sciences samen met Bierbrouwerij Vermeersen en RKI Sustainable Solutions extractieprotocollen ontwikkelen voor het extraheren van vluchtige organische componenten (VOC) uit zwarte bessen pulp en Zeeuwse planten zoals zeevenkel, duindoorn en zeekraal. Er zal gebruik gemaakt worden van microwave assisted extractie (MAE), een innovatieve, groene extractietechniek die met behulp van microgolfbestraling de selectieve extractie van smaakcomponenten met minimaal solventgebruik mogelijk maakt. Er zullen MAE-experimenten uitgevoerd worden om de procesparameters tijd, temperatuur en vermogen te optimaliseren en de smaakcomponentensamenstelling en het smaakprofiel van de extracten zullen geanalyseerd worden. De extracten zullen vervolgens ingezet worden voor de productie van een zwarte bessen kombucha met een intense smaak met diepgang. Zo wordt ervoor gezorgd dat iedereen in Zeeland kan genieten van een lekker drankje dat ook gezond is en de duurzaamheid van de regio ondersteunt. Het project sluit aan bij het GoChem programmadoel om duurzame groei te realiseren in de chemische sector. Doordat dit project focust op groene extractietechniek om duurzame, gezonde en smaakvolle voedingsproducten te ontwikkelen past het binnen het thema Duurzame Chemie, hoofdthema Chemische processen en technologie en sluit het aan bij de 2e pijler van het de Chemistry for life roadmap van ChemistryNL.

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From Message to Movement: Co-Creating a Sustainability Communication Roadmap for Festivals

In recent years, organizations across Europe, and the Netherlands in particular, have increasingly supported efforts to enhance the sustainability of festivals such as the European Climate Pact, launched by the European Commission as part of the European Green Deal, European Festivals Association and Green Deals Circular Festivals in the Netherlands (European Union [EU], 2025). As a result, festivals across Europe are growing their environmental stewardship and serving as prototypes for wider societal transitions towards sustainability (Calvano, 2024; Irimiás et; al., 2024). However, festival organizers and other stakeholders still face challenges in developing effective communication strategies that truly activate more sustainable behaviour among festival goers (Harms et. al., 2023). Generic, one-size-fits-all approaches are often applied, yet they tend to have limited impact. This is also due to the diverse nature of music festivals, ranging from indoor to outdoor settings, single-day events to multi-day experiences, and from urban to rural locations, all of which shape the audience, context, and communication needs in unique ways (Tölkes & Butzmann, 2018; Dodds et. al., 2020). Essentially, festivals are ideal for informing, experiencing and activating sustainable behavioural change through effective communication before, during and after festivals. It is therefore crucial that a more targeted approach is utilized where messages can be tailored to make communication more effective (Temmerman & Veeckman, 2024). To address pressing sustainable and social challenges within the festival sector, NHL Stenden (NHLS) will collaborate with ESNS and Thansk on a design research project. In partnership with a network of festival organizers, industry professionals, and experts, the project will explore effective communication strategies for sustainability. The goal is to develop an actionable, research-informed roadmap that supports music festivals in enhancing their sustainability communication tailored to the sector’s dynamic and diverse nature.

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Hold your breath: Tracking the footprint of an invisible killer - air pollution in the port city of Rotterdam

The reclaiming of street spaces for pedestrians during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as on Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam, appears to have multiple benefits: It allows people to escape the potentially infected indoor air, limits accessibility for cars and reduces emissions. Before ordering their coffee or food, people may want to check one of the many wind and weather apps, such as windy.com: These apps display the air quality at any given time, including, for example, the amount of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a gas responsible for an increasing number of health issues, particularly respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Ships and heavy industry in the nearby Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest seaport, exacerbate air pollution in the region. Not surprisingly, in 2020 Rotterdam was ranked as one of the unhealthiest cities in the Netherlands, according to research on the health of cities conducted by Arcadis. Reducing air pollution is a key target for the Port Authority and the City of Rotterdam. Missing, however, is widespread awareness among citizens about how air pollution links to socio-spatial development, and thus to the future of the port city cluster of Rotterdam. To encourage awareness and counter the problem of "out of sight - out of mind," filmmaker Entrop&DeZwartFIlms together with ONSTV/NostalgieNet, and Rotterdam Veldakademie, are collaborating with historians of the built environment and computer science and public health from TU Delft and Erasmus University working on a spatial data platform to visualize air pollution dynamics and socio-economic datasets in the Rotterdam region. Following discussion of findings with key stakeholders, we will make a pilot TV-documentary. The documentary, discussed first with Rotterdam citizens, will set the stage for more documentaries on European and international cities, focusing on the health effects—positive and negative—of living and working near ports in the past, present, and future.

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