Conference
'Educating for Healthy Settlements'
Friday March 26, 2010 - London.
This successful conference was organised to showcase good practice and bring together educators and others interested in
exploring and developing built environment education to help deliver more health aware planners,architects, urban designers,landscape and transport professionals. The event was chaired by Professor Peter Roberts, chair of the Homes and Communities Agency Academy and Professor Roderick Lawrence of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva.
Conference Statement
The conference organisers and delegates agreed on the following conference statement directed at policy-makers, educators and the institutions and professional organisations whose members plan, design and develop our urban environments, including their transport and resource infrastructures and to those institutions whose remit is to support public health and reduce health inequality.
We believe that the creation of healthy communities is a central aspect of sustainable built environments. To achieve this, we strongly recommend:
- ensuring all built environment professionals finish basic training with an understanding of the impact of their professional activities on health, including health equity
- ensuring training for all health professionals includes a consideration of the impact of the built environment on health, including health equity
- establishing a health-related cross- professional development programme for healthy urban environments
- bringing the evidence base from research and practice into the realm of educators and policy- makers in an accessible and relevant form
Speakers' Presentations
To download pdf versions of the speakers' presentations, click on the links below (links open a new window):
- Susan Francis, Special advisor for Health, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
- Professor Roderick Lawrence, Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva
- Professor Catharine Ward Thompson, Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art and University of Edinburgh
Workshops led by members of the EN4HS Core Team encouraged delegates to explore the following issues:
- Obesogenic Environments: Teaching the message in the face of complexity and using 'the health map' Jane Fearon (Sheffield Hallam University), Andy Jones (University of East Anglia) and Marcus Grant (University of the West of England, WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments)
- Living places and social and mental well being, Sue Kidd (University of Liverpool) and Pat Brown (Kingston University)
- Using case study housing developments to teach about health and wellbeing and the built environment, Professor Elizabeth Burton (University of Warwick) and Professor Taner Oc (Emeritus, University of Nottingham)
Outcomes
Further information on the conference outcomes and next steps will be available shortly.
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Call +44 (0) 117 32 83190 or e-mail en4hs@uwe.ac.uk.
This event was supported by additional funding from the Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE).
