Berlin Hohenzollerndamm
Description
Data collection of recordings of natural and human life along West Berlin's Hohenzollerndamm. Obtained from 1) Fieldwork data collection through a DIY portable sensing device (environmental data and visual data), and 2) Publicly available data sources (Cycling routes from OpenStreetMaps, Geolocated trees from Berlin's Tree Register [Baumkataster], NextBike rental bike fleet data, individual geolocated sightings of flora and fauna from open-source, online iNaturalist database). (1) Includes readings for atmospheric molecular hydrogen (H2) concentrations (expressed in ppb – particles per billion), atmospheric ethanol concentration (expressed in ppb – particles per billion), temperature (expressed in C). Parsed through a digital cartography workflow, the data reveals the emergence of a “fourth nature”—a non-designed, unmanaged urban wilderness—within Hohenzollerndamm's infrastructural landscape. It enables a fine-grained analysis of Hohenzollerndamm’s central verges as multispecies “contact zones,” where human and nonhuman agents intersect through overlapping flows of mobility, habitation, and data production.
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Institutions
- The University of Edinburgh