Marc Gordon, Head, Global Risk Analysis and Reporting Unit, GAR Coordinating Lead Author, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Geneva CH
From the planet to the city, the imperative for transdisciplinary, systems-based approaches in global to local efforts to deal with systemic risks

Ibtihal Y. El-Bastawissi, Dean Faculty of Architecture, Beirut Arab University LB
Re-conceptualizing Urban health in developing countries: BAU Urban Lab as a Model for systems approach

Feedback and Discussion

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Module 2: Observing urban systems health / Measuring Factors

Objectives of learning:

– Delineations of cities / systems of cities

– Giving concrete indicators and factors

– Developing critical approach on indicators and factors

Content:

1. Diagnostics and benchmarks: indicators
2. Factors of influence
3. Case studies

Short presentations for discussing the objectives and specifying the content:

Wei-Qiang Chen, Prof. Inst. of Urban Environment, CAS, Xiamen CN
From Growth to Health: China’s Achievements and Challenges in Urbanization

Luis Bettencourt , Inaugural Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, Professor Ecology and Evolution and the College, Associate Faculty, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Measuring human development in cities: neighborhood features and correlates

Stephane Joost, Prof. Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, LASIG, EPFL) and GIRAPH Lab (Geneva University Hospitals, UEP, HUG), Lausanne, CH
High spatiotemporal resolution spatial monitoring of COVID-19 cases in Geneva, Switzerland

Céline Rozenblat. Institute of Geography and Sustainability – University of Lausanne CH
Multiple delineations of cities: How to find the “right” contours for studies and for policies in specific cities?

Dr Simon Hodson, Executive Director of the ISC – CODATA committee
FAIR Data for Healthy Urban Systems

Feedback and Discussion

6:00 PM- 6:30 PM

Synthesis and discussion on the modules 1 and 2: organization / Content / Exercises

with Jeff van de Poël, specialist of MOOCs

Thursday September 3^rd 2020

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Module 3: Conceptual and theoretical frameworks to conceive models of urban systems health

Objectives of learning:

– Define general/specific theoretical frameworks

– Explaining difference between scales and levels for cities

– Defining relevant scales and levels and their properties

Content:

1. Theoretical frameworks
2. Definition of scales and levels
3. Contagion / diffusion
4. Dynamics
5. Examples

Short presentations for discussing the objectives and specifying the content:

Franz Gatzweiler, International Science Council’s programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing: a Systems Approach
Types of methods across epistemological stances

Saroj Jayasinghe, Chair Professor of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities, University of Colombo.
Urban Systems in H and W: A view from the health sector

Juval Portugali – Tel Aviv University center for cities and urbanism, and ESLab, Department of Geography and the Human Environment, Tel Aviv University
Hermann Haken – Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stuttgart University
A synergetic cities’ view on cities in time of corona

Luis Bettencourt , Inaugural Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, Professor Ecology and Evolution and the College, Associate Faculty, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Health development processes in cities: theory of longitudinal accumulation and main implications.

Céline Rozenblat, Institute of Geography and Sustainability – University of Lausanne CH
Disentangling scales and levels: for a more complete vision of cities’ systems

José Lobo, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
Urban Sustainability in a COVID-19 World

Feedback and Discussion

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Module 5: Scenarios Design for Adaptive urban systems health

Objectives of learning:

– Learning stages in the elaboration of scenario

– Understanding problems at each stage

Content:

1. Scenarios elaboration methods
2. Scenarios testing
3. Examples

Short presentations for discussing the objectives and specifying the content:

Rachel Cooper, Prof. Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University GB (ImaginationLancaster)
Designing the environment for health and well being

Marianna Cavada, Lecturer in Urban Design Policy, at Lancaster University GB
Scenario building for the smart agenda

Feedback and Discussion

5:30 PM– 6:30 PM

Synthesis and discussion on the modules 3 and 5: organization / Content / Exercises

with Jeff van de Poël, specialist of MOOCs

Friday September 4^th 2020

3:00 PM– 4:00 PM

Module 4: Tools for modeling urban systems health

Objectives of learning:

– Understanding micro behavior interacting with meso and macro structures

– Knowing the main theories about micro-behaviors and meso-macro factors

– Defining relevant individual rules and influencing factors

Content:

1. 1. Agent based models, Biocybernetic Sensitivity Models, integrated models
   2. System based evaluation of infrastructure projects
   3. Examples
2.  

Short presentations for discussing the objectives and specifying the content:

Leandro Garcia, Lecturer in Complexity Science in Public Health, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Developing dynamic conceptual models of health behaviours and their meso-macro determinants for agent-based models

Stephen Passmore, CEO Resilience Brokers, London, GB
Developing an integrated model to support urban systems health and wellbeing decision making