INTA WINTER SESSION 3 – Part 2 – Local Living, Liveability and the 20 Minute-Neighbourhood
Summary — HUSAM ALWAER – The conditions for making local living a realistic response to contemporary urban crises. Professor Husam AlWaer’s presentation explored whether living well locally can become a realistic response to contemporary urban crises. He situated the discussion within a context shaped by climate change, health inequalities, the housing crisis, the cost of living, […]
INTA WINTER SESSION 3 – Part 1 – How Urban Design choices shape Mobility, Accessibility and Social Justice in our cities
Summary — Professor Ole B. Jensen – Exclusionary design, mobility and justice In this presentation, Professor Ole B. Jensen examined how urban design shapes everyday experiences of mobility, access and exclusion. Drawing on his book Mobility and Justice by Design, he explored the relationship between bodies, infrastructures and power, and showed that the built environment is […]
INTA WINTER SESSION 2 – Part 2 – Housing justice, including emergency shelter construction and community developments projects
Summary – Camila Jordan – Housing justice, including emergency shelter constructionand community development projects. INTA President Helle Juul opened the session by framing its central question: how can urban development not only respond to crises but actively strengthen resilience and human well-being? She noted that cities worldwide face multiple overlapping challenges — climate change, social […]
Part 1 of SESSION 2 – URBANITY, WELL-BEING AND CRISES
Introduction and Framing INTA President Helle Juul opened the session by framing its central question: how can urban development not only respond to crises but actively strengthen resilience and human well-being? She noted that cities worldwide face multiple overlapping challenges — climate change, social inequality, housing shortages, migration, and public health — making the way […]
INTA WINTER SESSION – 13 January 2026 – Cambridge
Summary #2 of SESSION 1 – URBANITY, WELLBEING AND EQUITY Focus on the urgent need for better and more affordable housing in rapidly growing cities and areas of crises. Margaret Donnelly Moran is the Deputy Executive Director for Development at the Cambridge Housing Authority in Massachusetts. NAHRO (National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials) focuses on promoting affordable housing, community development, and urban revitalization. […]
INTA WINTER SESSION – 13 January 2026 – Palestine
Summary #1 of SESSION 1 – URBANITY, WELLBEING AND EQUITY Focus on the urgent need for better and more affordable housing in rapidly growing cities and areas of crises. Husam Shweiki is a Palestinian architect and urban planner who serves as the Head of Architecture at Hebron Municipality. He is also a member of Hebron’s Core Planning Team for the city’s 2023–2026 strategic […]
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 conditions determine 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. […]
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 […]