Navigating Sustainability 2025: We made a Blue Zone - Come visit, stay for lunch

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03 We made a Blue Zone - Come visit, stay for lunch

Discover how urban planning and design can build a resilient community, encourage healthy living and fight loneliness

Blue Zones are where people live happy, healthy lives to 100 and beyond. What’s the secret? Partly it’s strong social connections and now lonelygenics is the science that studies how urban planning and the built environment can unlock massive benefits. Whether at work or home.

There’s more: the experts say we can provide contact with nature or social spaces, but it’s another thing to encourage people to use those resources.

Construction productivity is appalling. We know. But the Productivity Commission report in February said it was not only the worst of any industry, it's gone backwards. There's also a housing crisis, and now a lot of hope riding on new methods of construction (MMC) or pre-fab to solve both these problems. Alongside this is the urgent need for circularity and the electrification of buildings.

Speakers

Xiao Qi Feng is a Professor of Urban Health and Environment at UNSW. Faculty of Medicine and Health and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health, Australia. As a top-ranked researcher in cities and health with over $21 million in grants and over 200 publications, Professor Feng leads research programs informing urban planning strategies that improve cities and health sustainably and equitably for millions of people. She is the Founding Co-Director of the Population Wellbeing and Environment Research Lab (PowerLab). As the Chair of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in her faculty and the Chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology’s Capacity Building and Education Committee, Professor Feng is leading initiatives to support career advancement opportunities, representativeness, and fairness in higher education and research within Australia and worldwide.

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