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The issue of sustainability is at the top of the political and societalagenda, being considered of extreme importance and urgency. Human individualaction impacts the environment both locally (e.g., local air/water quality,noise disturbance) and globally (e.g., climate change, resource use). Urbanenvironments represent a crucial example, with an increasing realization thatthe most effective way of producing a change is involving the citizensthemselves in monitoring campaigns (a citizen science bottom-up approach). Thisis possible by developing novel technologies and IT infrastructures enablinglarge citizen participation. Here, in the wider framework of one of the firstsuch projects, we show results from an international competition where citizenswere involved in mobile air pollution monitoring using low cost sensingdevices, combined with a web-based game to monitor perceived levels ofpollution. Measures of shift in perceptions over the course of the campaign areprovided, together with insights into participatory patterns emerging from thisstudy. Interesting effects related to inertia and to direct involvement inmeasurement activities rather than indirect information exposure are alsohighlighted, indicating that direct involvement can enhance learning andenvironmental awareness. In the future, this could result in better adoption ofpolicies towards decreasing pollution.

Participatory Patterns in an International Air Quality Monitoring Initiative