Hi and thank you for visiting my page! I am a final year Environmental design student, and I am volunteering to work and do my research in San Jose, Costa Rica.

The country is known for its ecological practices, biodiversity and rain-forest conservation. However, conflict in neighboring countries resulted in more than 23 000 refugees to move to Costa Rica. They now live in informal settlements, much of them within San Jose, and in poor living conditions.

I am crowdfunding for environmental measuring equipment and software which would be used on site to provide data, which has never been documented before - the level of air pollution and type of pollution within the neighborhoods as well as the city. This initial research would give me understanding on how to mitigate this by introducing design strategies and guidelines that the community can follow - i.e. introduce ventilation, new types of materials or even new urban morphology.

I also believe in data democratization, and I hope this research would be able to challenge further any governmental attempt to ignore or marginalize communities.

This is not for profit, it is part of my degree and I will be working for free, however I do not have access to equipment or software needed.

Thank you!