Facemask

The Facemask project, a branch of the OneTrees project in conjunction with Biotech Hobbyist Magazine, is aimed at creating a public, networked visual representation of urban air quality. Air quality is often represented statistically or with arbitrary symbols - a column of numbers tells us the concentration of particulates in our city on a particular day; a weatherperson tells us that today is a red or purple ozone alert day. Information relayed abstractly is difficult to assimilate, question or respond to. But how can air quality be visualized in a concrete manner? While air may be invisible, indicators of urban air quality are everywhere: a miasmatic cloud that obscures your city’s skyline, a particularly brilliant sunset, a white t-shirt turned gray after just a day of wear…

If you have ever worn a disposable facemask for a few days, you may have noticed that the mask eventually became discolored. The goal of this project is to use the discoloration of facemasks as an informal sign of relative air quality by creating a statistically accurate color gradation from white to black, each shade representing the concentration of particulates suspended in the air …

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