Mental Health & Measuring, Assessing, and Certifying the Built Environment
Guest Lectures
100
Its mission is to encourage California's children to participate in outdoor activities and discover their heritage.
What is the Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights?
100
A few examples of this are brain development, learning, creativity, and imagination.
What are the developmental benefits of play?
100
This is the primary source of social support and sense of community, it helps people create neighborhoods that are more capable of forming local organizations and mobilizing for political purposes, and it is the foundation of social capital.
What are social ties?
100
This has been shown to be associated with higher levels of quality of life on college campuses.
What is ecodiversity?
100
This is the act of being present at work while not feeling well, resulting in decreased productivity compared to if one were present at work and not sick.
What is presenteeism?
200
Active transportation and active recreation.
What are the two domains of physical activity?
200
This helps those with and without disabilities discover that they are competent, capable, and able to foster friendships.
What is inclusion?
200
This is the “ability of a building to maintain critical life-support conditions for its occupants if services such as power, heating fuel, or water are lost for an extended period”
What is passive survivability?
200
Psychologists use this term to refer to the positive emotional bonds between a person and a place where designers and planners can increase the likelihood of these bonds to develop by creating spaces that are attractive, support social interactions, and invite people to linger.
What is place attachment?
200
Anne Bunde-Birouste founded and described it as a program that "is not about football; it is about building our communities, it is about working together - equal opportunities, it is passion for something you can't describe really in words you just have to see."
What is Football United?
300
This consists of the individual, community, policy, media, consumer, and micro-environments.
What are food environments?
300
He said "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation" demonstrating the idea of play as an ancient one.
Who is Plato?
300
This is "the capacity of a system to absorb and utilize or even benefit from perturbations and changes that attain it, and so persist without a qualitative change in the system’s structure.”
What is ecological resilience?
300
This can promote or reduce feelings of annoyance, distress, anxiety, and in some cases, depression.
What is the built environment?
300
Roughly translated to mean community service, this is a traditional Mexican and Zapotec value that the Intercambio embraces.
What is tequio?
400
The components of this include agriculture, processing & production, marketing & distribution, and choice by individuals & consumers.
What is the food system chain?
400
Studies show that these settings have attention restoring effects and are linked with more effective attentional functioning in a variety of populations.
What are natural settings?
400
This contributes to community resilience and consists of designing a stock of buildings in a community to withstand physical forces.
What is structural resilience?
400
These types of certified buildings have gradually set a standard for energy efficiency over the past two decades such that most new buildings are now designed with energy efficiency as the goal, even when formal certification is not required or mandated.
What is LEED certification?
400
These are hand-carved and beautifully painted wooden figures that are made only in a few places in Southern Mexico where the pueblo of Arrazola is home to many of the artisans that create these.
What are alebrijes?
500
The 7 components of this are food access, food safety, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, community food systems, culturally acceptable foods, and social justice.
What are the 7 components of community food security?
500
When looking at play through this lens, it means promoting the knowledge that children and families need and deserve access to play spaces regardless of their ability, age, race, gender, ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic status.
What is social justice?
500
Ultimately, the relationship between this and social capital is likely reciprocal so that when social capital expands, it is likely to facilitate actions to improve it and vice versa.
What is the built environment?
500
This is comprised of the following 6 steps:
1) Screening to identify projects or policies for which this tool would be useful;
2) Scoping to identify which health effects to consider;
3) Assessment to identify which persons may be affected and how they may be affected;
4) Developing recommendations to suggest changes to the proposal to promote positive or mitigate adverse health effects;
5) Reporting of the results to decision makers and stakeholders;
6) Evaluation and monitoring of the impacts of this typeof tool on the decision process;
What is a health impact assessment (HIA)?
500
A small group led by Saúl Aragón formed a collective of families in 2005 dedicated to the art of the alebrije and sustaining the native copal forest that provides the wood, named this.