Photo credit: Space and Place Architects Ltd / Exeter City Council
16th July : 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Free webinar
Creating healthy, active places depends on more than good policy or individual projects. It requires people, teams and organisations to work differently across systems, professional roles, cultures and practices. This is the hard and soft work of ‘joining the dots’: building relationships; understanding how decisions connect; identifying points of influence; and creating the conditions for health and activity to be embedded across place-shaping work.
This webinar will explore how systems approaches can support healthier, more active places, with practical learning from two case studies.
Amber Nyoni, Essex County Council and Sem Lee, OURI Labs, will share work on developing the Greater Essex Planning and Health Protocol, using a systems workshop to strengthen collaboration between planning and health. The approach helped participants build a more holistic understanding of cross-departmental initiatives and shape the principles and values guiding future joint working.
James Bogue, Exeter City Council, will present work through the Council’s Sport England Place Partnership expansion programme, exploring how a focus on active environments can support healthier, more active places. The case study will consider how work in Exeter is bringing together organisational practice and community voice with planning, green and blue infrastructure, sports and leisure facilities, sustainability and active travel, to make physical activity easier, more accessible and more embedded in everyday life.
The session will be useful for anyone interested in how systems thinking can help move from shared ambition to more joined-up action on healthy, active places.
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