Adaptive Reuse: Design Transformations for Community Healthcare Design interventions into pre-existing sites play a critical role in global healthcare. The 2023 Epidemic Urbanism Initiative Design Competition will focus on adaptive reuse, inviting submissions that consider how pre-existing vacant, underused, or currently used sites, structures, and spaces can be transformed into healthcare settings with thoughtful, sustainableContinue reading “Call for 2023 EUI Design Competition Submissions”
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EUI Workshops
Equity, Health, and Environment: Toward a More Just Global City – June 11, 2022 Free Workshops by an international Group of EUI Faculty The Epidemic Urbanism Initiative (EUI) invites students, early career researchers, and junior faculty to apply for the June 2022 EUI Workshops, “Equity, Health, and Environment: Toward a More Just Global City” on JuneContinue reading “EUI Workshops”
Architectural Education and Design Pedagogies: Global Perspectives and Challenges of Inclusivity, Health, and Resilience
A roundtable discussion sponsored by the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative Saturday, May 7, 2022, 9am US Eastern Time, via Zoom This panel, moderated by Professor Ashraf Salama, Director of Architectural Research at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, aims to address a range of timely questions for architectural education across the world provoked by the simultaneous epidemicsContinue reading “Architectural Education and Design Pedagogies: Global Perspectives and Challenges of Inclusivity, Health, and Resilience”
EUI Events Calendar
Learning from the Pandemic: Leveraging Architectural Education Toward Equity, Health, and Resilience
A roundtable discussion sponsored by the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative Friday, March 11, 2022, 12-1:30pm US Eastern Time, via Zoom In this session, Deans of five Schools of Architecture across the United States will respond to a range of timely questions for architectural education provoked by the simultaneous epidemics of COVID-19, racism and racial inequity, andContinue reading “Learning from the Pandemic: Leveraging Architectural Education Toward Equity, Health, and Resilience”
Announcing the Results of the EUI Design Competition, 2021
Designing for Health and Equity: Supporting Vulnerable Communities in the Post-Pandemic Age In summer 2021, the EUI organized a design competition to create a venue to promote collaboration across global and disciplinary networks and by bringing together students, academics, and practitioners from across the world to imagine design solutions that center health, equity, and socialContinue reading “Announcing the Results of the EUI Design Competition, 2021”
Upcoming Events
You can learn about and register for upcoming workshops, panels, and events hosted by the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative.