Meet the team
Each newsletter will feature profiles of collaborators from our sixteen partner organisations .
Andy King , Bristol Associate Professor of Knowledge Exchange , specialising in games technologies and innovation .
Where in Europe do you live ?
project , the challenge of air quality in our cities has really been made clear to me .
What do you think needs to change in your city ?
I work in Bristol and car share with 3 others to commute to work . I used to live in Bristol and transport is a big issue , from the safety of cyclists , availability of public transport in and out of the city , as well as pollution levels caused by traffic management . I hope Bristol will become the cleanest city in the UK , and the most forward thinking in terms of transport !
What is your role in ClairCity and what interests you in the project ?
I will help mapping urban energy activities and air pollution sources in each city . I like the interdisciplinarity of the project : we touch upon social science , air pollution modelling , computer science , geography and energy planning .
What do you think needs to change in your city ?
Copenhagen is very active in the sustainability arena and aspires to become CO 2 neutral by 2025 . I hope that the entire transport in Copenhagen will move to bikes and electric / hydrogen buses and cars , so that noise and air pollution will be problems of the past .
I live in Radstock , a village around 25km from Bristol .
What is your current job , and what has been your career journey ?
For the last 10 years I have been working in Games Technology and Creative Technologies at the University of the West of England in Bristol , UK ( UWE Bristol ). Before that , I was a game designer and composer .
What is your role in ClairCity and what interests you in the project ?
I am lead designer on our ClairCity game . I am excited to build a game that is more than behaviour change or awareness raising . Ours will be driven by real issues that citizens and cities are facing . I ’ ve worked as a designer on large games for big companies such as Sony , but none have provided the level of challenge that this game design has . Since we started the
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Sara Ben Amer , Copenhagen PhD student in Systems Analysis .
Where in Europe do you live ?
I live in Copenhagen area , Denmark . Originally , I come from Poznan , Poland .
What is your current job , and what has been your career journey ?
I work at the Technical University of Denmark . Currently , I am a PhD student focusing on modelling and analysis of urban energy systems and sustainable cities .
ClairCity partners are based across ten European countries .
Our staff include game designers , sociologists , scientists , data analysts , policy specialists , communications experts , engineers , app developers , economists , geographers , civil servants and mathematicians .
By combining our efforts , we aim to address some of the multi-disciplinary problems that cities face .