Disease outbreaks in building environments. A multidisciplinary approach to preparedness and response
Seminar organized by FULL - Future Urban Legacy Lab
The seminar ‘Disease Outbreaks: A multidisciplinary approach to preparedness and response’ aims at presenting part the work carried out by an interdisciplinary research group, which is collaborating with the World Health Organization, and focusing on engineering and design for the Global South.
During the seminar, the role of the built environment in the context of preparedness and response will be discussed, stretching the importance of its resiliency to emerging diseases. This will be done by presenting a number of both design projects and theoretical approaches that can contribute to the creation of an healthier built environment within the context of a changing world where climatic, health and humanitarian crisis are increasing.
Programme
14.30 – 15.00 Introduction
The collaboration between Politecnico di Torino and World Health Organization
15.00 – 15.45
Speaker: Michele di Di Marco (World Health Organization)
TECHNE’: a multidisciplinary approach to preparedness and response
15.45 – 16.30
Speaker: Anna Silenzi (World Health Organization)
Designing multi diseases treatment centres
16.30 – 16.45
Break
16.45 – 17.30
Speaker: Marianna Nigra (FULL – DIST – Politecnico di Torino)
INITIATE2: Designing an Infection Diseases Treatment Module
17.30 – 18.15
Speaker: Marco Simonetti (FUIL – DENERG – Politecnico di Torino)
Building resiliency to airborne pandemics and its environmental cost
18.15 – 18.30
Conclusion
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