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50 ways to regeneratively reimagine our High Streets. A co-creating workshop. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Sara, R., Rice, L., & Doron, H. (2022, November). 50 ways to regeneratively reimagine our High Streets. A co-creating workshop. Presented at Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference 'Building Ground for Climate Collectivism', Pratt Institute, New York, US

This co-authoring workshop provides a collectivist space for participants who have been involved in radical rethinking of High Streets/Main streets internationally to work together and contribute to the future and imagined role of these spaces. Tradi... Read More about 50 ways to regeneratively reimagine our High Streets. A co-creating workshop..

Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L., & Drane, M. (2021, October). Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review. Presented at 5th Healthy City Design 2021 International Congress, Virtual

This themed paper develops the findings of Indicators of Healthy Architecture—a Systematic Literature Review (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00469-z) including consideration of implications for built environment practitioners and how this informs... Read More about Indicators of healthy architecture: Lessons for practice from a systematic literature review.

UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children (2021)
Presentation / Conference
lemaignan, S., newbutt, N., Rice, L., daly, J., & charisi, V. (2021, September). UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children. Paper presented at IROS: The Roles of Robotics in Achieving the UN's Social Development Goals, Prague

For a period of three weeks in June 2021, we embedded a social robot (Softbank Pepper) in a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school, with a focus on supporting the well-being of autistic children. Our methodology to design and embed the robot among th... Read More about UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children.

Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2021, February). Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities. Presented at Economics Webinar Series, Malaysia

The presentation examines the economic implications of the relationship between the design of cities and urban areas and the resultant health outcomes for the human population. There is now good evidence linking the design of urban areas to differing... Read More about Building the business case for Healthy Cities; Counting the cost of diseasogenic cities.

Designing healthy and sustainable cities: Public health and architecture for wellbeing (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2021, February). Designing healthy and sustainable cities: Public health and architecture for wellbeing. Presented at Resilient and Liveable City Planning Conference, India

In light of the climate crisis and emerging health challenges, there is an urgent need to address these issues in an integrated approach. The presentation highlights how the design (and retrofit) of the built environment can help to improve both huma... Read More about Designing healthy and sustainable cities: Public health and architecture for wellbeing.

Da–Sein Dwellings: An exploration into the meaningful aspects of home and its relationship to human needs (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Dahlia, T., Sara, R., & Rice, L. (2020, November). Da–Sein Dwellings: An exploration into the meaningful aspects of home and its relationship to human needs. Presented at Architectural Humanities Research Association ‘Housing and the City', University of Nottingham, UK

The act of dwelling is a primal creation of meaningful place and something that every human strives to achieve (Seamon and Mugerauer, 1985), and as such the home ''is very charged with meaning because it is closely involved with the most intimate asp... Read More about Da–Sein Dwellings: An exploration into the meaningful aspects of home and its relationship to human needs.

The role of data analytics in coproducing healthy cities (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2019, July). The role of data analytics in coproducing healthy cities. Paper presented at Urban analytics at the interface between environment, human health and behaviour, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Creating ‘Healthy Cities’ is one of the grand challenges facing society in the 21st Century part of which requires imaginative, interdisciplinary research practices. The research explores the emerging relationship between innovative data analytic tec... Read More about The role of data analytics in coproducing healthy cities.

Codesigning a low-carbon roadmap for healthy architecture (2019)
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Rice, L. (2019, June). Codesigning a low-carbon roadmap for healthy architecture. Paper presented at Transitioning to Energy Efficient and Carbon Neutral Buildings - Developing a Roadmap for Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Over the last two decades, there has been considerable progress in developing solutions (mostly technological) for the design and construction of sustainable, low-carbon architecture and built environment. More recently, there has been success (albei... Read More about Codesigning a low-carbon roadmap for healthy architecture.

Codesigning blue infrastructure and water resources for healthier built environments (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2019, April). Codesigning blue infrastructure and water resources for healthier built environments. Paper presented at Water Resources: management and sustainability in Jordan from pre-history to the future, Amman, Jordan

Urban water management plays an important role as part of delivering healthy built and natural environments. With over half of the world population using poor or inappropriate sanitation, cities and buildings are a significant cause of contamination... Read More about Codesigning blue infrastructure and water resources for healthier built environments.

Typologies of knowledge for healthy streets: The need for an interdisciplinary paradigm for public health and design practice (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Drane, M., & Carmichael, L. (2018, October). Typologies of knowledge for healthy streets: The need for an interdisciplinary paradigm for public health and design practice. Paper presented at City Street 3, Beirut, Lebanon

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a global health challenge and physical environment factors play a material role in NCDs. The residential street is a building block of the physical environment and has been identified a place to integrate health... Read More about Typologies of knowledge for healthy streets: The need for an interdisciplinary paradigm for public health and design practice.

Healthy architecture: A conceptual framework for the integration of public health into the architectural profession (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, October). Healthy architecture: A conceptual framework for the integration of public health into the architectural profession. Paper presented at World Health Organisation International Healthy Cities Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland

The WHO Healthy City strategy places focus on the role the built environment plays as a determinant of health. There is a well-established need for intersectoral work, collaboration and research in order to improve the health of urban populations. Al... Read More about Healthy architecture: A conceptual framework for the integration of public health into the architectural profession.

Improving place-based health: Innovative use of digital technologies to measure health & wellbeing on University Campus environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, September). Improving place-based health: Innovative use of digital technologies to measure health & wellbeing on University Campus environments. Presented at Advancing work, health and well-being in rural and urban Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia

This research examines the relationship between University campuses and mental wellbeing. The environmental setting of a campus plays a significant role in determining the mental health and wellbeing outcomes of individuals. The peak time for the eme... Read More about Improving place-based health: Innovative use of digital technologies to measure health & wellbeing on University Campus environments.

The healthy university: The integration of public health into University campus developments to improve wellbeing (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, September). The healthy university: The integration of public health into University campus developments to improve wellbeing. Paper presented at City Health International Conference, Odessa, Ukraine

Improving health and wellbeing is seen as one of the key challenges of our time. The challenges cannot be resolved solely through local government or national health services; instead it requires much greater integration from all sectors of the econo... Read More about The healthy university: The integration of public health into University campus developments to improve wellbeing.

Designing health equity in disaster affected urban areas: From hard engineering to holistic engineering (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, August). Designing health equity in disaster affected urban areas: From hard engineering to holistic engineering. Presented at Building Resilience in Flood Disaster Management in Northern Peru, Peru

Making cities more resilient to disasters, such as floods, is a fundamental aspect of maintaining a healthy urban population. Approaches to flood disaster management can also contribute to broader improvements to public health if implemented correctl... Read More about Designing health equity in disaster affected urban areas: From hard engineering to holistic engineering.

Improving social and environmental resilience through the development of healthier urban and rural environments (2018)
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Rice, L. (2018, July). Improving social and environmental resilience through the development of healthier urban and rural environments. Poster presented at Social Ecological Resilience to River Floods and Coastal Disasters, Brazil

The research focuses on how to make urban and rural settlements greener, healthier and more resilient. The increase in the global population combined with massive urbanisation is increasing need for risk resilience from disasters, particularly in coa... Read More about Improving social and environmental resilience through the development of healthier urban and rural environments.

Co-designing the healthy city; approaches for integrating new technologies and collaborative working (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, July). Co-designing the healthy city; approaches for integrating new technologies and collaborative working. Paper presented at Data Analytics for Future Cities Research, Danang, Vietnam

The research focuses on healthy cities, particularly how to make urban environments healthier, more sustainable and more liveable. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals have replaced their Millennium Development Goals with much more of a focus on he... Read More about Co-designing the healthy city; approaches for integrating new technologies and collaborative working.

The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, June). The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities. Presented at The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities., Xian, China

The research examines innovative approaches to designing new urban areas and retrofitting existing cities to enable healthier outcomes. The design and layout of the built environment is a significant determinant of human health. Simultaneously, achie... Read More about The Healthy City as a system of urban regeneration for improving economic, social & environmental inequalities.

Healthy architectural ecology: Designing and constructing healthier built environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, March). Healthy architectural ecology: Designing and constructing healthier built environments. Paper presented at S.Arch: 6th International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design, Havana, Cuba

The built environment is the location where the majority of the world’s population resides. Urban residents spend over 90% of their time indoors. Yet the design of the built environment is also linked to unhealthy lifestyles. How we design cities and... Read More about Healthy architectural ecology: Designing and constructing healthier built environments.

Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rice, L. (2018, January). Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities. Presented at Localising Strategies for Making Cities Resilient to Disasters Workshop, Philippines

In 2015, the UN adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR 2015-2030) with the goal of reducing disaster risks and the consequent loss of life and livelihoods. As part of this goal, the UNISDR produced the framework ‘Ten Essenti... Read More about Developing a framework for integrating disaster resilience and healthy cities.