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A Healthy Tomorrow: Active Design Strategies for Buildings, Open Spaces and Neighborhoods

4:30 - 5:30 pm
Location: Lynnwood Convention Center - Room 2BC
Speakers: Marieke Lacasse, ASLA, LEED BD+C; Alicia Daniels Uhlig, NCARB, LEED Fellow

Description:

Tomorrow’s health starts with Active Design today. Active Design is an evidence-based approach to design that aims to transform the fabric of our communities to promote health. It involves designing buildings, streets, and neighborhoods to provide increased opportunities for daily physical activity and access to healthy foods. This session will address specific implementation concerns for creating more sustainable communities and neighborhoods using Active Design. The presentation will:

  • provide a brief overview of the Active Design Guidelines;
  • offer detailed case studies demonstrating effective implementation of Active Design strategies;
  • provide suggestions to close the gap between design and measured performance by discussing a post-occupancy evaluation; and
  • encourage participants to identify new ways to integrate the concepts of Active Design into projects, programs, and policies at their own organizations.

The session will explore the implementation of Active Design in our neighborhoods and communities. Panelists will highlight award winning project case study examples, showcase a post-occupancy evaluation and point to resources and tools for participants to utilize in their practice. HSW-Yes

Learning Objectives:
  • Become familiar with NYC’s Active Design Guidelines and utilize specific urban design and building design strategies to promote health through physical activity while reducing environmental impacts
  • Describe Active Design’s synergistic relationship with universal and sustainable design
  • Recognize successfully implemented Active Design strategies in a range of planning, building, and open space projects
  • Utilize the principles of Active Design to promote the health of users through physical activity while reducing environmental impacts
Speaker Bios:

Marieke Lacasse, ASLA, LEED BD+C
Principal, Senior Landscape Architect, GGLO
Marieke Lacasse has over 18 years of design experience and is passionate about creating social outdoor spaces that reflect the unique character and interests of their community. She’s accustomed to large integrated design teams with heavily involved community participants. The resulting spaces garner awards for their playfulness, highly sustainable features, promotion of health and active living, and long-term site stewardship.

Alicia Daniels Uhlig, NCARB, LEED Fellow
Principal, Director of Sustainability, GGLO
Alicia Daniels Uhlig is an architect with over 15 years of sustainable design experience. As Principal and Director of Sustainability at GGLO, she is the firm’s driving force for integrated sustainable design projects. Prior to joining GGLO, Alicia’s sustainability focus led her to work in Italy and practice architecture in the USVI and with Van der Ryn Architects in California.