Student Ideas Competition: Environmental Health Equity
In 2020, the Pittsburgh Platform, in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, launched an Ideas Competition for students within in the fields of architecture and urban planning to submit proposals on how to ensure environmental health equity. Students were asked to form interdisciplinary teams together with students within economics, social science, and environmental and public health, or other relevant fields to strengthen their concepts. This call for ideas aimed to push the envelope on how to establish environmental health equity and bring environmental health into the center of the debate on city planning.
Award Winners
The Jury
Rahel Belatchew Founder and Chief Architect Belatchew
Meta Berghauser Pont Associate Professor, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Urban Design and Planning, Spatial Morphology Research Group at Chalmers University, Sweden
Erica Cochran Hameen Assistant Professor CMU, USA
Åsa Gren Researcher at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
Justin Garrett Moore AICP, NOMA, Transdisciplinary designer and urbanist, New York, USA
Rebecca Kiernan Principal Resilience Planner City of Pittsburgh, Department of City Planning
Esther Obonyo Global Building Network Director at Penn State University
Organization
The Pittsburgh Platform
Partners
The Heinz Endowments
Chalmers University
Carnegie Mellon University
Collaborators
Pennsylvania State University
Estonian Academy of arts
