HEALTH TUESDAY - THE HEALTHY LIVING ENVIRONMENT
In order to create a healthier living space together, one in which people who move within it are the starting point, the most important stakeholders – municipality, province, healthcare institutions, General Practitioners, designers, urban developers, psychologists and other experts – need to be able to work together effectively. How do you reveal people’s wishes and needs and how do you ensure their interests remain at the centre of a complex process? With RUIMTEVOLK, Perfect Place and the Municipality of Utrecht we took a look at the healthy living environment.
The environment in which you live, work and relax has a big influence on your welfare. Which factors make a space comfortable, positive, active and sociable? And can we create a positive influence on our health through the design of our living space and even prevent problems like loneliness, stress and obesity?
Speakers
Sjors de Vries and RUIMTEVOLK create perspectives and spatial strategies for societal challenges, which have designing sustainable and inclusive cities and regions at their core. Bringing stakeholders together, to bring forth the rights points of action and agendas.
Johan Westerbeek and Perfect Place support organisations on the basis of regional data and through analytical tools to determine the liveability of a certain area for certain target groups. Is a neighbourhood suitable to develop further to facilitate elderly people that need to live independently for longer, for example?
Monique Simons is senior researcher digital (game) technology for a healthy urban life at the Municipality of Utrecht and Utrecht University. For her research programme Gamifying Urban Health she looks for ways in which the city can become a living space with healthy temptations.
Program
1 pm – Doors open & coffee and tea
1.30 pm – Welcome by U CREATE and Monique Simons (Municipality of Utrecht)
1.40 pm – Strategies for more health and happiness in the neighborhood by Sjors de Vries (RUIMTEVOLK)
Air, noise, nature and water: all factors that can influence our health. In which ways can we positively influence people through a regionally-oriented approach? The inspiring opening is executed by RUIMTEVOLK with an overview of instruments and strategies.
2.10 pm – The influence of good design on people and behaviour
What can we take from science around public spaces or hospitals?
2.30 pm – Coffee and tea
2.45 pm – Big Data as the source of the appeal of locations for certain target groups, by Johan Westerbeek (Perfect Place) What is the influence of the living space on people’s health? Which demands and wishes do certain groups have in order to make their living situations as pleasant as possible? Think about things the distance to certain facilities in the area. He will illustrate the added value of data about the surroundings and potentially from new data sources.
3 pm – Design sessions
Theme 1: Working from an existing neighborhood towards a new layout. How can we do that? For example by playing into the elderly in the neighborhood. How can we create a healthy living space?
Theme 2: If we could start on a blank canvas, what would the ideal living space look like? Which target groups are you looking to serve and what kind of facilities, activities, nature and water is needed to support their well-being?
4.30 pm – Interview: What is needed to conceive concept for a healthy living environment in practice?
All speakers will engage in a discussion on the basis of what they have come up with in the design sessions to set 5 do’s and 5 don’ts to be able to engage with stakeholders about spatial development, with a healthy user of that space at the centre of these talks.
4.45 pm – Drinks
Sign Up
All U Create Health Tuesdays are free, but we do ask that you sign up via Eventbrite.