Join us for a new conversation series on environmental health equity (the equal right for everyone to be able to live in a healthy environment) through the lens of architecture and urban design. This 3-part series - May 23, June 7, and June 20 - will provide insights and discuss the power of architecture and urban design to improve environmental health. Architects and designers from Pittsburgh and Stockholm, Sweden will discuss and compare experiences from their cities.
The Pittsburgh International Conversations, hosted by AIA Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Platform, will feature hour-long discussions and presentations between architects and urban designers. Speakers will introduce themselves and their work in a shortened PechaKucha-style presentation, followed by an open conversation among the participants. Learn more and register here. One AIA LU per session, free.
May 23
Session 1: Health Equity: Architecture and the Value of Design
In the first in the series of conversations, we take a deeper look into environmental health equity and the value of architecture and design. The conversation focuses on what role architectureand urban design have in achieving environmental health and well-being, the responsibility of architects and urban planners to address and ensure environmental health, which “tools” and possibilities are available, and how to communicate and argue the value of design in achieving environmental health.
Participants:
PIttsburgh:
- Jeff Murray, Cannon Design
- Amanda Markovic, GBBN
Stockholm:
- Fredrik Hansson, Creative Director and Partner Okidoki Arkitekter
- Anna Sunnerö, founder Sunnerö Architects
Moderator:
- Michelle Fanzo, Executive Director, AIA Pittsburgh
June 7
Session 2: Health Equity: Public Space and the Built Environment
In this conversation our guests will focus on how architecture, urban design and landscape architecture can improve public health and well-being, designing spaces that shape experience. This conversation highlights specific design solutions that create a healthy living environment and promote ahealthy lifestyle and will discuss valuable lessons learned between Pittsburgh and Stockholm.
PIttsburgh:
- Brent Houck, AIA, PWWG
- Nina Chase, Merritt Chase
Stockholm:
- Linda Pettersson, Urbio Landscape Architects
- Johanna Elgström, Landskapsarkitekt LAR/MSA
Moderator:
- Sander Schuur, Int’l. Assoc. AIA, Founder & CPO at HOMR
June 20
Session 3: Health Equity: Community Engagement and the Power of Education
This conversation addresses the possibility of improving well-being through empowering communities and individuals to impact their own life–the freedom to make your own decisions. The conversation will focus specifically on education as a tool to establish general understanding of architecture and urban design to strengthen overall understanding and how to lead to community engagement and participation.
Participants:
Pittsburgh:
- Erica Cochran Hameen, Associate AIA, Carnegie Mellon University
- Robert Tuñón, AIA, Rothschild Doyno Collaborative
Stockholm:
- Rebecca Rubin, Sveafastigheter | Nyproduktion hyresbostäder
- Carolina Wikström, http://www.europan.se/
Moderator:
- Alec Rieger, NextGen Pittsburgh