Dear all, feel free to forward this information to interested colleagues. It links public and mental health with issues of the environment – from the home to the city.
Conference: Health - The Design, Planning and Politics of How and Where We Live
Place: University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Dates: 25-26 January 2018
For people unable to travel to Bristol, pre-recorded film and skype presentations are available. You will still be able to submit a written paper for publication in the journal series and associated books.
Abstract Submission (Round 1): 01 June 2017 Nb. This allows delegates needing an early decision
Abstract Submission (Round 2): 30 October 2017
http://architecturemps.com/bristol-2018/
Health: The Design, Planning and Politics of How and Where We Live
This major international conference brings together health professionals, architects, urban designers, human geographers, planners, policy makers and more. It continues work over the past three years on public health and housing with previous events and speakers including John Ashton, President of the Faculty of Public Health, the Public Health Film Society, UK.
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Organisers:
The event is part of a series being organised by an international consortium of organisations and publishers including: The Public Health Film Society, various WHO collaborating centres, the University of Derby, La Universidad de Sevilla, University of Cyprus, Swinburne University Australia, London South Bank University Liverpool and John Moores University, UCL Press and Libri Publishing. It is coordinated by the UK non-profit research organisation AMPS as part of its engagement with the UN Habitat University Initiative.
This particular event is organised by the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Themes:
This event is part of a global series of conferences and publications that critique multiple health and built environment issues:
Public health, The healthy city, Health and housing, The politics, economics and production of housing, The ecology of the house, Homelessness and more.
Publications:
There will be a conference proceedings publication with its own ISSN. Delegates will also be considered for inclusion in three books series with UCL Press, Vernon Press and Libri Publishing respectively. A Special Issue of the journal Architecture_MPS is also available.
Keynotes:
Speakers this series of events organised by AMPS and its university partners include: John Ashton, President of the Faculty of Public Health, the Public Health Film Society, Herman Hertzberger, Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medalist, 2012; Assemble, Turner Prize Winners, 2015; Stephen Hodder, CBE, President, RIBA, 2013-15 and other organisations such as the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The city of Bristol
Enveloped in the hills of South West England and just across the Bristol channel from the capital of Wales, Cardiff, and 15 minutes from the historic city of Bath with the most important Roman heritage in the UK. Bristol is also one of the UK’s most significant cities of the Industrial Revolution.
One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, identified in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities, and named as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014, Bristol also won the EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015. It is ranked as Britain's most-sustainable city. It is also at the centre of the UK’s art, music and cultural scenes.
http://architecturemps.com/bristol-2018/
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