Fit City 7: Promoting Physical Activity through Design
21.05.2012 - 21.05.2012
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012, USA
The AIA New York Chapter, in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, will host the seventh annual public conference to examine how design of the built environment can create opportunities for increasing physical activity and access to healthier food and beverages. This conference will bring together architects, planners, designers, landscape architects, developers, and public health professionals to discuss how design, policy, and practice decisions can address the key health epidemics of our time: obesity and related chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, some cancers and asthma.
Conference participants will hear how the strategies included in the Active Design Guidelines (www.nyc.gov/adg), released in January 2010, are being implemented at New York City agencies, in the private sector, and in communities across the world.
Program Schedule:
8:00am-8:30am: Registration
8:30am-8:45am: Welcome
Joseph J. Aliotta, AIA, President, AIA New York Chapter
Karen Lee, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Built Environment Director, Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene
8:45am-10:30am: Mayor?s Obesity Task Force Panel:
Creating a Healthier, More Fit New York City
Moderator: Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director, AIA New York Chapter
Opening: Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda I. Gibbs
Commissioner Thomas Farley, MD, MPH, Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene
Commissioner David Burney, FAIA, Dept of Design + Construction
Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Dept of Transportation
Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Dept of Parks & Recreation
Commissioner Edna Wells Handy, Dept of Citywide Administrative Services
Deputy Commissioner Robert Piccolo, Mayor?s Office for People with Disabilities
Alex Washburn, AIA, Chief Urban Designer, Dept of City Planning
Ira Gluckman, RA, AIA, Queens Borough Commissioner, Dept of Buildings
E. Bruce Barrett, AIA, Vice President, A&E, School Construction Authority
10:30am-10:45am: Physical Activity Break
Monifa Roberts and Lillian Dunn, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
10:45am-12:00pm: Fit World: Encouraging Active Design Across the Globe
Moderator: Jane E. Brody, Personal Health Columnist, The New York Times
Angela Brady, FRIAI, RIBA, ARB, FRSA, President, Royal Institute of British Architects
Kathryn Firth, MAUD, Chief of Design, London Legacy Development Corporation
Billie Giles-Corti, Director, McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne
Peter McCue, Manager, Premier's Council for Active Living NSW (Sydney, Australia)
12:00pm-1:00pm: Break for lunch
1:00pm-2:15pm: Fit Nation: Designing Healthy Communities, Streets, and Buildings in the United States
Moderator: Joanna Frank, Active Design Director, Dept of Design + Construction
Alison Cohen, President, Alta Bicycle Share
Andrea Platt Dwyer, Executive Director, Seattle Tilth and Regional Food Policy Council Member
Bernard Zyscovich, FAIA, President and Managing Partner, Zyscovich Architects
2:15pm-3:15pm: Building on the Active Design Guidelines: Implementation Highlights and New Resources
Karen Lee, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Built Environment Director, Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene
Skye Duncan, MsAUD, Associate Urban Designer, Dept of City Planning
Gayle Nicoll, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Design, OCAD University
3:15pm-4:30pm: Active Design Breakout Groups Exercise
4:30pm-5:00pm: Closing
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May 2012
