Keywords
well-being
city
architecture
engineering
urban planning
complexity
Life Hábitat
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Abstract
Health and well-being awareness in architecture and urban planning is nothing new. The approach has served as the basis for person-centered designs and a wide variety of concepts, but also to justify practices with a different background and objectives. Consequently, challenges that require continuous interdisciplinary debate keep arising.
This paper explores that scenario on the assumption that there are no single solutions that are optimal for all purposes, given the multiplicity of issues and definitions arising from that relationship, and that adaptive as well as balanced responses are therefore necessary. The matter is analyzed herein through a critical review of some of the themes, perspectives and insights from the Life Hábitat Congress on Engineering, Architecture, Health and Well-Being.
The analysis carried out shows that a complexity-based, multidisciplinary and relational approach is required, and that it is favoured by both the current juncture and analytical capabilities. It should be flexible, to respond to changing situations; integrative, to attend to interrelated issues, and focused on the process, on the suitability and adaptation of each solution and on what they allow for, rather than on the pursuit of theoretically optimal solutions that can hardly be achieved in a context of uncertainty.
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