Sharing the
wealth
enriched environments
promote psycho social health of communities
July 16th
2021
h. 14 > 17 CET
welcome by Benno Albrecht, Universitą Iuav di Venezia
panelists
Harriet Harris | Dean,
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, NY
Kate Jeffery |
Neuroscientist, UCL London
Sarah Robinson |
Architect and Philosopher
Colin Ellard |
Neuroscientist, University of Waterloo CA
Gianfranco Franz | Sustainability Theorist, University of Ferrara
Davide Ruzzon | Architect, NAAD Universitą Iuav di Venezia
Jagan Shah | Resident
Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute, Mumbai
organized by the postgraduate
specialisation programme in neuroscience applied to architectural design
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I should start with
saying 'Maggie and Ronald, bye-bye.' But we need a premise. Researchers of the
neuro-psychological field are definitively demonstrating how enriched urban and
architectural environments promote people's physical, psychological and social
health, as these factors are all profoundly intertwined.
Cities are the key
factors to sustain conditions able to free communities from as invisible as
untouchable gravity forces. Nevertheless, persons have to fight those negative
hidden loads all day. Urban surroundings would be places to live together,
thanks to healthy contexts, if they could be enriched urban spaces, through
services used as a catalyst for social interaction and architectural forms as
triggers of emotional engagement.
Coming back to the
opening, we need to rethink the profile of the public institutions' actions.
Urban design and Welfare State overlapping have fed a long debate. Using the
wealth of privates, architectural and urban design have to be engaged to share
with citizens this wealth through a foundational fiscal deal. After the pandemic, we need to rejoin threads
too long separated, like ecology, urban design, economy, human rights, and
human sciences.