Air is Kin

The mission of the project is to move towards the abolition of “Right to Pollute” policies and to facilitate healing pathways for communities impacted by air pollution. This project and study are meant to create a starting point for the abolition of the right to pollute policies, which are having a continual devastating effect on both planetary and human health.

With support funding from Impact on Urban Health we are running an 18 month project bringing together a team of academics, scientists, and policy experts. This group will collaborate with people experiencing the worst injustices of air pollution.

Centric Lab will run a series of workshops to co-create a symptom tracker and to collect information about people’s symptoms of ill-health. People local to Lambeth & Southwark, London, and other select areas in the UK are involved in the project and will lead decisions on how to use the resulting data and insights.

We will be using this information to create health reparations for communities affected by air pollution. This can be recommendations for specialised health care, as well as advocating for clean air alongside GP as part of healthcare.

This builds on our work of Right to Know, which enables people to discover how their health is affected by where they live.

We will be updating this page in the near future following the early phases of the project.

Impact on Urban Health have written about the project here.

Project Start: January 2024

Contact: araceli@thecentriclab.com