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Paper short abstract:

How can we act collectively on climate issues? We combine a self-reflection experience, collective relevant scientific results and civic actions in a research in the wild located at the city of Barcelona.

Paper long abstract:

"The benefits and burdens associated with climate change and its resolution must be fairly allocated." From: Mary Robinson-Climate Justice Foundation.

When trying to understand ourselves, we should also ask how we behave collectively. OpenSystems research group have developed many experimental setups out of the lab as a research in the wild where matters of fact are deeply interwined with matters of concern. We therefore study human traits in public and in a participatory way but at the same time we implement civic actions as part of the same experimental action. We went out to different sites of Barcelona with a pop-up citizen science experiment. The challenge was to better know how can we act collectively on climate issues. A social dilemma was situated in a playground environment. We there asked citizens about their habits for carbon footprints. We also observed how citizens balanced their self-interest and the benefit of a collective global warming action. In this way, we first offer a self-reflection experience to participants related to climate action. And we secondly generate relevant scientific results: poorest players in the game were the most generous, and those that were 3 times richer contributed 1/3 less to the climate action. There is afterwards a reforestation action with the participants. The experiment was made in colllaboration with a designer's collective: Domestic Data Streamers. We are currently working with the artist Natalie Jeremijenko to take particular actions with in the neighborhood of Raval from Barcelona. We will also present this ongoing research. https://vimeo.com/155801654