INTA WINTER SESSION
2026 / ONLINE – Registration : 📧 [email protected] – 📧 [email protected] GLOBAL URBAN FUTURES: DELIVERING BETTER AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING Building on the insights from the Urban Health Culture Lab in Copenhagen (September 2025), this season sharpens INTA’s strategicfocus on how living conditionsdetermine urban well-being — withhousing as a critical lever forresilient and inclusive citydevelopment. Access to adequate and affordablehousing is not only a social right; itis a prerequisite for urban health,economic stability, and cohesive communities. Yet cities across the world are under mounting pressure from rising housing costs, social segregation, and gentrification. Addressing […]
INTA 46 – 2025 – Copenhague – Session 2 – People For Health – Trust, mental well-being and inclusive design
Sess. 2. 1. – Gert Tinggaard Svendsen Professor, Political Science, Aarhus University, Danemark Focus: Trust as social capital and the invisible foundation of healthy societies. Main research areas are trust, social capital, climate policy, the welfare state, lobbying, and collective action problems. Also collaborate with, among others, Professor Robert D. Putnam from Harvard University on […]
INTA 46 – 2025 – Copenhagen – Session 1 – Cities For Health – Urban health as a rising spatial and political priority
Sess. 1. 1. – Torben Klitgaard , CEO, BLOXHUB Focus: Cross-disciplinary collaboration for regenerative urban futures. BLOXHUB bridges architecture, engineering, design, construction and digitization to develop and scale sustainable urbanization initiatives. Torben Klitgaard is a driving force behind the BLOXHUB activities, facilitations and programmes. Torben Klitgaard introduced BLOXHUB as a civic innovation ecosystem founded by […]
INTA 46 – 2025 – Copenhague – Session 3 – Nature For Health – Designing healing and sensory environments that nurture the brain
Sess. 3. 1. – Prof. Ulrika Stigsdotter Landscape Architecture at Copenhagen University, Danemark Focus: Evidence-based health design and the responsibility of shaping healing environments. As a landscape architect she received her PhD degree from the Department of Landscape Planning Alnarp, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), where she also completed her graduate studies. Her background […]
INTA 46 CONFERENCE – 2025 – Copenhague – Opening Session
Sessions: Cities for Health, People for Health, Nature for HealthDate: 12 September 2025Venue: BLOXHUB, Fæstningens Materialgård, Copenhagen Welcome to the Lab – Helle Juul, President of INTA & Founding Partner, JUULFROST Architects Helle Juul, president of INTA opened our congress 2025 by framing Health, Cities and Urban Development as a long-term INTA initiative extending into 2026. Founded in 1974, INTA […]
URBAN HEALTH CULTURE OF THE FUTURE
Lecture Series 2025 – 3 / Biodiversity and Urban Nature, Investment in a Healthier Future 2 positions – Thomas Randrup, professor at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences / Karin Krasig Peschardt, a PhD landscape architect
URBAN HEALTH CULTURE OF THE FUTURE
Lecture Series 2025 – 2 / Mental Health of cities, loneliness and the urban environment 2 views – Étienne Lhomet / Tamara Yazigi
URBAN HEALTH CULTURE OF THE FUTURE
Lecture Series 2025 – 1 / What is Urban Health Culture? 2 views – Christer Larsson Sweden / John Pløger, Norway
General Assembly 2024 candidates for the Board of Directors
General Assembly 2024 candidates for the Board of Directors Luis Buezo de Manzanedo (Peru) Luis Buezo de Manzanedo, Franco-Peruvian sociologist and artist. He holds a specialty in urban sociology and a master’s degree in organizational sociology. Between 2008 and 2021, he worked for the International Urban Development Association – INTA as Director for the Latin […]
General Assembly 2024
General Assembly INTA 2024 Dear colleagues and members of INTA, We have the necessary conditions to organize a General Assembly of our association, in Paris on March 22nd. La Poste has provided us with a room in their building located at Boulevard Brune. For those who could not join us in person, a videoconference setup […]