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Swiss Center for Design and Health

Cities of Longevity

How design, urbanism and technology can create ecosystems of care? The event will explore how we can design ecosystems of care through a socioecological, technological, and spatial lens.

Ecosystems of Care

In today's fast-paced world, the concept of health and longevity has expanded far beyond the traditional healthcare system, which mostly treats the symptoms of our natural aging process, e.g., through medicine and drugs. But longevity is a lifelong process and our health changes as we age, requiring different models of prevention and care at different stages of our lives. Furthermore, an aging population requires long-term strategies to address the needs of a generation that will dynamically assume roles that may differ between care-seekers and care providers.
By integrating a socio-ecological, technological and spatial perspective through the means of design, architecture, urban planning and innovative technologies, we aim to demonstrate the potential of a holistic approach to care to transform the way we think about care for a growing elderly society.
The event will bring together experts from these diverse backgrounds, including architects, researchers and other professionals. Through engaging discussions and practical examples, participants will have the opportunity to explore how design, architecture, urbanism and new technologies can be used to address health-related challenges in the context of longevity and urbanisation and create what we define ecosystems of care.

Speakers

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    Bio

    Dr. Jan Eckert

    Deputy Director, Swiss Center for Design and Health

    Dr. Jan Eckert is Head of the Living Lab and Deputy Director of the Swiss Center for Design and Health, where he designs pathways for healthy individuals, communities and the planet. Eckert has held various positions in the field of design. His expertise reaches from interior architecture towards design science and education with a specific focus on systems thinking and evidence-based design.

    Dr Jan Eckert is Head of the Living Lab and deputy director of the Swiss Center for Design and Health , where he designs pathways for healthy individuals, communities and the planet.

    Jan has held various positions in the field of design. He was the Head of the Design Unit at the University of Gothenburg, Full Professor and Head of the Master’s Programmes in Design at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Senior Researcher at Lucerne’s Competence Center for Typology & Planning in Architecture, Senior Strategy Consultant at Mint Architecture in Zürich, and worked as an Interior Architect in both Switzerland and Germany.

    He has a PhD in Design Sciences from IUAV University of Venice and an international Master’s Degree in Interior Architectural Design from the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, the Edinburgh College of Art, and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. Before that, he studied Interior Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

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    Bio

    Dr. Miniou Azfali

    Head of Research, Swiss Center for Design and Health

    Dr. Minou Afzali is the SCDH Head of Research. Prior to that, she was Deputy Head of the Institute of Design Research and Professor of Social Design at Bern Academy of Applied Sciences. Minou was also the coordinator of an interdisciplinary research group at the Bern University of Applied Sciences including experts from the fields of design, architecture, nursing, medical informatics and economics. Minou holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bern where she wrote her dissertation on the role of design in culture-specific nursing homes in Switzerland.

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    Mariko Sugita

    Urban Designer, Independent Researcher

    Mariko is an independent editor, journalist and researcher on architecture and urbanism. She graduated 4CITIES Euromaster in Urban Studies, which brought her to 4 cities in various places in Europe (Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen and Madrid). After the graduation, she has been trying to cultivate a trajectory that completes connections between journalism and the field of architecture and urban design. After a few years of working as an urban project director at Loftwork.inc in Tokyo, she became independent. She owns her own website Traveling Circus of Urbanism, and manages a cultural space Bridge To in Kyoto where she hosts an “urbanist in residence” program. She has also been organizing various workshops and educational programs and working as a curator. She is passionate about exploring and documenting stories of cities and people who make them, in a different part of the world.

Program

  • 6:00pm – Welcome
  • 6:10pm – Introduction
  • 6:20pm – Keynote: «Urbanism of Care» (Jan Eckert)
  • 6:40pm – Panel Discussion: «Design and Innovation Challenges in the context of urbanisation and longevity»
  • 7:15pm – Q&A Session
  • 7:30pm – Networking Reception
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Event start time

  • Boston and New York

    4:00AM

  • Brazil

    6:00AM

  • China

    5:00PM

  • India

    2:30PM

  • Japan

    6:00PM

  • San Francisco

    1:00AM

  • Switzerland

    10:00AM

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    Fiammetta Pennisi

    Head of Art-Science
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