LAtitude | Urban Design: Health Focused Planning and Design for People and Liveability

New Date Below!

LATITUDE | Urban Design: Health Focused Planning and Design for People and Liveability

Tuesday 9 September 2:30pm - 4:30pm AEST

This workshop explores the importance of health in planning and design, highlighting key health imperatives, research, and policies. It provides resources to deepen participants' understanding of health-focused design. The session is ideal for landscape architects and built environment professionals, particularly those new to health-based design or seeking a refresher. Attendees will gain insights into best practices and policies to enhance the health and liveability of urban spaces, suburbs, and green areas.

Workshop Objectives:
- Provide participants with an explanation of why health is important in the planning and design professions.
- Outline the health imperatives associated with good planning and design based on current health statistics.
- Examine current health research and policy that relate to the built environment professions with commentary on success or otherwise.
- Explain to participants the many resources available to enable them to strengthen their understanding of the depth and breadth of knowledge in health and liveability design guidance.

Learning Outcomes:
- Encourage further and ongoing learning through the provision of good precedent health policy and research for practitioners to refer to and use in their place of work.
- Showcase constructed projects for participants to reference as benchmarks of healthy planning and design in their place of work.
- Encourage more consideration of health as a planning and design driver in policy and project delivery.
- Provide participants with practical tools for them to use to assist with better health focussed design processes and outcomes.

Audience:
Recommended for those new to applying health related research and tools to planning and design along with those looking for a refresher in this field to hear about current/new research.
Recommended generally for landscape architects and built environment professionals involved in policy / guideline creation and in the design and delivery of our city, suburbs, and green spaces.

Delivery:

This latest LATITUDE workshop will run from 2:30pm-4:30pm AEDT online on Zoom. Places are limited so be sure to register your spot before we sell out.

Registration

Type	Details	Price
Member	AILA Member Price	$230
Non-member	Non-member price. Become a member.	$340

Workshop Presenter:

HEATH EDWARDS

Heath is a passionate advocate for the design and planning professions in South Australia.
Heath is active with both the Planning Institute and Institute of Landscape Architects, serving as State Co-President for AILA in 2014-2015 and serving on Awards juries for both Institutes over many years. In 2016 Heath was awarded as a Fellow of AILA for his services to the profession.
With a career that spans public sector and private practice, Heath has been fortunate enough to work on an extremely broad range of projects.
Heath is sought after for his planning and design expertise for design review panels, guest critics for the University of Adelaide, and has been on several Council Assessment Panels including the City of Adelaide, West Torrens and City of Victor Harbor.
Finally, Heath is Chair of the SA Active Living Coalition, a not-for-profit organisation that advocates for places that encourage all people to be more active every day.