The next speakers in the ‘Thinkers and Doers’ series is Gayle Souter-Brown (UK/New Zealand) presenting “Great expectations: the post COVID role of design in health promotion – reflections from practice and research”.

This lecture is scheduled to happen on Wednesday 22 July 2020 at 8am NZ time (or 21 July  – 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York, 9pm London).

Register for the lecture on Zoom 👉 https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIodumurT8tG9Iv0hpvP3woapNWCpJlrQs8

Abstract

This lecture will look at the post-COVID, in a recession economy, where designers will be expected to add value to communities and environments in new ways. Health promotion, to ensure the public immune system is as strong as is possible, can be achieved through design. Design can be a powerful tool in shaping behaviour change. The devil, as always, is in the detail.

Bio

Gayle Souter-Brown is a Health + Wellbeing consultant, sustainably connecting young and old back to nature. She uses collective storytelling and community involvement in the design process to boost community health & workplace wellbeing. She founded Greenstone Design UK in 2006 and expanded to New Zealand in 2012. Her practice takes a collaborative, co-design approach. Urban ecology, mental health, occupational therapy and education professionals come under the same umbrella. Author of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-being (Routledge Press, 2014), she was invited to be an inaugural member of the IFLA Advisory Circle in 2017. Gayle is known locally and internationally for making the complex seem simple. Her research and global practice aid projects at a variety of scales in housing, leisure, education, health and business. Together they create bespoke solutions to environmental, health, economic and social challenges.

About

‘Thinkers and Doers’ aims at bringing together practitioners, scholars, students and the wider community of landscape architecture and affiliated built environment disciplines to share ideas and to hear the latest innovations in the field. This online series brings together nationally and internationally renowned experts through an initiative between the NZILA Wellington Branch and the Landscape Architecture Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

NZILA members: Event Attendance – NZILA CPD 0.5 pts/hr

NZILA Category 3b Public Lecture: 0.5 pts/hr up to two hours per lecture