This lunchtime seminar will share learning from Belfast’s response during the Covid–19 pandemic.

Healthy Cities apply innovative approaches in creating healthy places such as engagement of the citizens in designing public places. This lunchtime seminar will explore projects to create healthy places, including children in placemaking and investing in an urban greenway in Belfast.

Connswater Community Greenway presented the opportunity to explore the potential social return on investment of a new urban greenway intervention. This is one of the first studies to conduct a social return on investment of a new urban greenway estimating the potential benefits. The results help to better understand a fuller value of the multi–functional and co–benefits of urban greenways which can support future investments, policies and practices.

A research study by Queen’s University explored the views of children who live in interface localities facing deprivation in Belfast and the impact of the presence of ‘peace walls’ in creating both physical and mental barriers. This presentation highlights the need for children’s views to be included in the design of places. This seminar will include speakers from Queen’s University Belfast.

More information available here…

Cost			Free
Time			Wednesday 3rd Feb 2021, 12.30pm–1.30pm
Contact			https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vQ3I8rvnQSat1A6dIR1egw