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TITLE

Pools of Privilege

ABOUT

As climate change continues to drive ever-higher daily temperatures and exacerbates heat stress on communities, the availability of respite on days with high to extreme heat is becoming an ever more critical resource. Not only public swimming pools offer cooling, but also private pools for those who can afford it. But how does this unequal accessibility affect social justice within Berlin?

WITH

Fabian, Marc & Sophie

IN

2024

Thes Dataset

Basis of this project is a dataset from ...

In addition public data from the Berliner Bäder Betriebe and ... was used to enrich the dataset. Through this we were able to set the distribution of cooling into relation with social factors such as education, employmnet and income.

Areal Imagery of Berlin

DATA VISUALIZATION

With three types of map-based visualisations we were able to show the differnet factors and set them into perspective.

Datavisualization of Public Swimming Pools
Datavisualization of the Social Disatvatage Distribution in Berlin

POOL DETECTION

Kivo is an approach of a conversational banking app, enabeling the user to shortcut workflows and analyse spendings to their individual needs.

Pool Distribution in Steglitz-Zehlendorf

Amir Hamedpour (Agricultural University of Iceland) was able to automate the analysis of the dataset and provided the distribution of pools in Berlin.

Color Palette

After the completion of this project the Tagesspiegel took up this project and analysis of areal imagery and created an article examining the connection between access to cooling, for example through swimming pools, and inequality.

Read the artcile here

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