Towards a Healthy City

Introduction

This interdisciplinary lab talk series looks at the built environment as a whole as factor for health production and optimisation. The project aims to find out how to enable a healthier living environment, while taking into account implications and challenges of connecting communities, spaces, policies and technology to improve the living conditions and health of the cities’ citizens. Much as the discourse around construction, engineering, the urban fabric and the building envelope is focused on a scientifically quantifiable notion of performance, the parameters by which we tend to measure health are limited by such a ‘rational’ approach. Thus, multidisciplinary strategies are used in this series to negotiate what is needed for human comfort and health.

Events

• #1 The Urban Approach 20 September 2019
• #2 The Building Scale 28 February 2020

Partners:
UN studio