Public health
Highlights
Weaving Wellbeing into Neighbourhoods
Rethinking Cities presents a Weaving Wellbeing Walkshops. The Walkshop (mobile workshop) involve a 90 minute walkabout with prompts to engage participants in discussion and observation, followed by an hour long debriefing session with local experts during which shared learning is encouraged. You’ll explore how an existing neighbourhood can be refurbished to promote residents’ wellbeing and
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Safest Way talking walking
Shane O’Mara talking walking
Walking with Çelebi
This sound walk, created by Geert Vermeire, Enrique Tomás, and Stefaan Van Biesen, is inspired by Evliya Çelebi’s 17th-century travels across the Balkans and blends historical geography with contemporary soundscapes recorded on location. Presented as part of the a Balkan Tale exhibition and produced by the Goethe Institut between 2013 and 2016, it combines poetic compositions and field recordings to evoke both the documentary and imaginative aspects of Çelebi's journeys.
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Soles of Black Women: Walking Art as a Means to Reverse Engineer the Strong Black Woman Phenomena
Dr. Chris Omni's doctoral research on Black Joy in Green Spaces is now presented as a walking art performance that encourages Black women to prioritize rest. This piece is filmed in a way that poetically invites audiences to walk in the shoes of BW.
Articles elsewhere
Investigating commercial influences on the transport system: An interview with Dr Caroline Shaw
Dr Caroline Shaw is an Associate Professor, public health medicine specialist, and epidemiologist at the Otakou Whakaihu Waka, Poneke | University of Otago Wellington. She and her colleagues recently published the paper Commercial Influences on He...
Walking It Off: Coping with Holiday Stress During the Pandemic
When I began this series, “Pandemic Posts from a City on Pause,” in March of 2020, I could see the first young greens of spring from my window. New Yorkers were told to stay home then and away from others. As someone who enjoys walking in the city, I k...
The Long Days of This New York Spring
The guys downstairs closed their diner, broke down the newsstand, and tossed the pieces to the curb. The barbershop closed last week, or maybe two weeks ago, commemorated with an Irish wake of beers. The bagel shop tried to stay open but gave up. There...
