Open Fields Lunch: Healthy Habitats 2024 - Healthy Habitats in a broken planet / HRC

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Event details

Date 05.11.2024
Hour 12:1513:30
Speaker Dr Dengkai CHI Future Cities Laboratory ETH Centre Singapore; Srishti Srivatsava Principal Architect, Srishti Sustainability Studio, PhD Statial Informatics Lab, IIITH Hyderabad India;  Dr. Guiseppe Galbiati, Mendrisio, USI    
Location Online
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language French, English
5 November 2024, Tuesday, 12:00 to 13:15
Location: Room BP 3127

Zoom: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64276421320

Sandwiches will be supplied 

Offering opportunities for interdisciplinary discussions around urbanization, the Open Fields Lunches aim to foster new collaborations within the EPFL scientific community.
Each meeting will be moderated by a member of the HRC or its affiliated laboratories, and will consist of a presentation by an international expert in the field, followed by presentations by two EPFL researchers interested in sharing and discussing their research. The seminar will conclude with a debate open to all the lunch participants.

Healthy Habitats in a broken planet: how to Design with care and for whom?

 Defining what health habitats entail is challenging as there are multiple variables to address in moving towards healthier spaces. The spatial dimensions certainly contribute, especially if supported by programmatic interventions. Designing Healthy Habitats requires both engaging spaces through multiple scales over time and mapping risk factors at all socio-ecological levels.

This leads to the question: healthy habitats, for whom? Under the planetary pressure of Transitioning, designing with care is paramount. How to design Healthy Habitats while sharing the responsibility for caring for our world. The series/lunch focuses on exploring what healthy habits entail and the contribution of design practices in fostering healthy habitats.

Speakers and Topics

12:00 - 12:05

2 min Opening - Ben Gitai
3 min Introduction - Shyam sunder Sirimalla

12:05 - 12:20 
Urban trees and human health: beyond mere quantity
Dr Dengkai CHI,
Future Cities Laboratory Singapore-ETH Centre

12:20 - 12:35
Balanced retrofit for healthy cities
Dr. Guiseppe Galbiati
,
post doc fellow, UCLouvain / Accademia di Architettura, USI
 
12:35 - 12:50
Leveraging AI in Urban Planning to Mitigate Human-Induced Microclimate Change for Healthier Habitats
Srishti Srivatsava
,
Principal Architect, Srishti Sustainability Studio,
PhD Statial Informatics Lab, IIITH Hyderabad India


12:50 - 13:15 Q/A discussion





How to participate
If you are interested in presenting your research during one of the three lunches, submit your contribution by sending a short abstract and title (max. 200 words) to [email protected] by 16 April 2024.
Presentations should be no longer than 12-15 minutes.
 

Practical information

  • General public
  • Free

Organizer

  • Habitat Research Center; Ben Gitai, Shyam sunder Sirimalla

Tags

Architecture Urbanism Habitat Research Center Healthy Habitats

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