Urban Evaporative Cooling and the Ecological Semiotics of Heat and Pollution in Athens

In all near-term future scenarios, the city of Athens is facing existential environmental threats from heat and pollution. The “eco-mental system” called Athena is changing. Urban Evaporative Cooling and the Ecological Semiotics of Heat and Pollution in Athens explores the potential for zero energy, water-based downdraft evaporative cooling installations as experimental urban air conditioning.