Applications Part 2: Co-designing community health and wellbeing

As the green building movement matures, we recognize our work is within existing communities, and we have a better understanding of how to work together to advance both occupant and public health. This session will explore how buildings shape community health through their design, construction, and operation, focusing on tangible applications.

Through a series of case studies, experienced practitioners will share innovative approaches to achieving a strong, two-way relationship between a development and its surrounding environment: Whereby community input and regional data on climate, health, and population conditions inform design priorities; and a development generates ongoing social, economic, and public health value for the community it is based in.

Opportunities, challenges, and practical strategies for stakeholders ranging from investors and developers to architects, facilities operators, and community groups, will be discussed.

Attendees will leave with frameworks for action, an understanding of the value of co-design with community members, and inspiration for shaping their practices to turn buildings into agents of community health improvement.