Educating for Healthy Settlements
Obesity
Friday 26th March 2010
The project conference will be held in central London to discuss how to bring health issues into the education of the built environment professions and to help develop new practice. We have devised an exciting programme with some great contributors speaking, chairing and running workshops. We are very pleased to have secured the following keynote speakers:
- Professor Roderick Lawrence, University of Geneva, who will be discussing how interdisciplinary approaches offer a new and holistic approach to the multiple factors which influence and connect health and the built environment
- Susan Francis, Special advisor for Health, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
- Professor Catharine Ward Thompson, Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art and University of Edinburgh who brings an open space perspective into the debate Chair for the morning session will be Professor Peter Roberts, chair of the Homes and Communities Agency Academy and Professor Hugh Barton of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy at UWE will be chairing the afternoon.
After introductory talks in the morning, there will be short profession-specific responses followed by open debate. Afternoon workshops will be run by members of the core project group who all have expertise in specific areas of health and the built environment and how that is being translated into teaching. Each workshop will take teaching examples and develop them with participants into new approaches and models that can be taken away and used to further teaching practice in integrating health into built environment understanding.
There are a limited number of early bird tickets available at £35 to cover refreshments and venue for the day, full fee is £45, visit http://www.bne.uwe.ac.uk/who/enhs/confmar2010.asp to secure your place.
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