VIDEO 2024
ARCHITECTURE MATTERS
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
Session 2: Health Equity: Public Space and the Built Environment
In this conversation our guests discussed 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 reflects on valuable lessons learned between Pittsburgh and Stockholm.
Participants:
Pittsburgh:
Brent Houck, PWWG
Nina Chase, Merrit Chase
Stockholm:
Linda Pettersson, Urbio
Johanna Elgström, Helsingborg
Moderator:
Sander Schuur, founder The Pittsburgh Platform and sthlmnyc
Session 3: Health Equity: Community Engagement and the Power of Education
This conversation addressed the possibility of improving well-being through empowering communities and individuals to impact their own life, being the freedom to make your own decisions. The conversation placed 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, CMU School of Architecture, Associate AIA
Robert Tuñón, Rothschild Doyno Collaborative
Stockholm:
Rebecca Rubin, Architect & Sustainability Director at Sveafastigheter
Carolina Wikström, Architect Asante
Moderator:
Alec Rieger, NextGen Pittsburgh