All Things Urban

A collaboration between UNStudio and ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory This lab talk is the first in the Towards a Healthy City series. In collaboration with UNStudio, the complexity of this topic is investigated with a panel of interdisciplinary expertise, knowledge, and insights. The kick-off event #1 The Urban Approach, examines the built environment as a holistic factor for health production and optimisation. The lab talk aims to take into account implications and challenges of connecting communities, spaces, policies and technology to improve the living conditions and health of citizens and the city. New angles of collaboration for a future development of healthy cities combines approaches to generate collective (thinking) systems. Developers, city planners, architects, and industry need to create new partnerships, and identify what constitutes the 'appropriate effort' they should contribute to support healthy cities. Designers also need to ask themselves how their designs can incentivize healthier lifestyles. At the same time, it will be important to investigate the ethics of collecting data on user behaviour, and the use of IOT when designing and monitoring these healthy, human-centric environments. Without using the word 'holistic' or imagining what 'healthy' cities look like, can we design for how cities can make one feel? What they may do for you? What are the outcomes healthy spaces produce, rather than the aesthetic that they reflect? Ultimately, we are interested in exploring research into the production of healthy cities, possiblities of new design and business models, fundamentally re-ordering the priorities of design. Welcome /// - Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory - Dana Behrman, Senior Urban Designer and Head of Urban Unit, UNStudio, Amsterdam Introduction /// - Miriam Mlecek, Programme Manager, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory Lecture #1 - Lenneke Vaandrager, Associate Professor Health and Society, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen Lecture #2 - Tim Townshend, Professor of Urban Design for Health, Newcastle University Lecture #3 - Jos Boys, Senior Lecturer in Environments for Learning, Bartlett Real Estate Institute, University College London Lecture #4 - Andreas Malich, Developer, Head of International Campus Berlin Branch, Berlin Podium Discussion /// The event will be in English. Please register at [email protected] Admission is free. We look forward to welcoming you!

Founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio specialises in creating ground-breaking architecture and design at all scales, from bridges to public buildings, offices, residences, exhibitions, products and urban masterplans. The name UNStudio stands for United Network Studio and refers to the collaborative nature of the practice. Throughout 30 years of international project experience, UNStudio has expanded its capabilities through collaboration with an extended network of international consultants, partners and advisors. This network, combined with our centrally located offices in Amsterdam, Shanghai and Hong Kong, enables us to work efficiently anywhere in the world. With over 120 completed projects in Asia, Europe and North America, the studio continues to expand its global presence with recent commissions in the United Arab Emirates, China, South Korea, Italy, Germany and the United States, among other countries.