[Preprint] Co-design inclusive relations between Humans and environments adopting a citizen science approach

The recurrency of extreme climate phenomena worldwide has made increasingly evident the correlation between human activities and climate change. COVID-19 pandemic is just one of the last “wake-up” alert for urgently rethink behaviours that have been forced to change during lockdown providing further evidences of human impacts on the environment (i.e. pollution reduction, re-naturalization, re-wilding, etc.). Enabling people's capacity to observe phenomena and reflecting upon the impacts of individual and collective behaviours on natural resources, requires efforts to make scientific knowledge accessible to all. The adoption of user-friendly tools - i.e. working on the public understanding of science and data - could contribute to overcoming the intention-action gap that limits people's capacity to positively impact on the local contexts in everyday life. The Municipality of Bologna is paving the way for a climate responsive society: the Impronta Verde project is a territorial strategy designed to contextualise future projects on urban open space (green spaces, public spaces, soft mobility infrastructures, etc.) within a systemic vision that, with the primary objective of implementing sustainability in the metropolitan urban environment, aims to reconstruct a continuity of the territory's blue and green networks, while improving the liveability, accessibility and beauty of the city. The Horizon 2020 project RESET aims at enhancing the adoption of environmental intelligence - i.e. coupling monitoring and modelling - to co-design green investments for enhancing urban adaptation to climate change. Within this framework, the Bologna case study adopts an open process based on collaborative data collection and data visualisation, allowing citizens to play an active role in monitoring, understanding and processing information with regard to urban heat phenomenon, and the effectiveness of urban green areas in reducing their impacts on the community wellbeing. Citizen science local initiatives will be activated by a peer-to-peer process, in which citizens will be involved in collaborative data collection and will improve their data literacy through a communication process based on data visualisation.