The innovative concept of the Urban Health Pathway. Online lecture (7 December 2023)
We will talk about innovative urban space design together with older people. Its originators are Natalia Bursiewicz and Anna Szewczenko. The project is called Urban Health Path and involves seniors getting to know their neighbourhood and being physically active in public spaces. It is a form of ‘urban therapy’ in which architectural elements such as […]
Blue-green cities. Meeting with Jan Mencwel (6 December 2023)
Paraphrasing a well-known quote, we can exclaim in Bialystok “Make the Biała River great again!”. It’s just a bit of a joke, because there’s a lot of truth in it about how much we don’t pay attention in our cities to rivers – sometimes small, but extremely important for both urban ecosystems and residents. So […]
Designing a healthy city in practice – Barcelona. Online meeting with Aleksandra Zemke (5 December 2023)
Everyone has probably heard of Barcelona. And did you know that a democratic-urbanist revolution is underway in this city? Changes in the city towards a healthy and accessible space have been underway for several years. They accelerated especially when the progressive mayor Ada Colau and the local political civic movement Barcelona en Comú took power […]
Science café: Is a healthy city possible? Citizen Science Week (4 December 2023)
We start our conversations about the city at Citizen Science Week by meeting two specialists in the field. Both practitioners and theoreticians who, with their knowledge and experience, can show the broad and international context of how cities are designed and changed today to create healthy spaces. How are medical science, neuroscience and social science […]
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