Building Health: Planning and designing for health and happiness, a one-day Conference that took place on Friday 22 January 2010 at UWE, Bristol.
Keynote presentations, other paper and photographs from the conference are now available to view online at the Architecture Centre's website. Today there is growing recognition of the impact that the built environment has on public health. Planning and design can play a pivotal role in tackling today’s urgent challenges such as sedentary lifestyles, obesity and health inequality. Housing growth and regeneration provide opportunities to ‘build in’ health from the start and to improve existing environments. This sell-out conference brought together professionals, academics and policy-makers to share inspirational stories of success and identify how we can work together more effectively.
Speakers included:
* Wulf Daseking, Director of City Planning, Freiburg, Germany
* Irena Bauman, Bauman Lyons Architects, author of How to be a Happy Architect
* Mike Kelly, Director, Centre for Public Health Excellence, NICE
* Sarah Gaventa, Director, CABE Space
* Richard Cass, Cass Associates and CABE Commissioner
* Chair: Judy Orme, Director of the Centre for Public Health Research, University of the West of England
