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

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.

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.