The AIA Los Angeles Chapter, with support from LA County Department of Public Health and the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, will host a half-day symposium on October 7, 2011 to highlight opportunities to design communities that promote greater physical activity and equitable access to healthier lifestyles.

The symposium will bring together architects, policy makers, planners, urban designers, developers and healthcare professionals to discuss innovative strategies to design projects that will help to prevent childhood obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers and asthma.

Friday, October 7 (8:00 AM – 12:30 PM)
Ronald F. Deaton Civic Auditorium
LAPD Police Administration Building
100 West First Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

$25 AIA Members / $35 Non Members
Provides 4.0 HSW Learning Units

Click here for more information and to register for the event

HMC’s Kate Diamond will be participating in Panel Discussion #2, Designing Healthier Places: Case Studies that Make it Real
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Speakers
Hagy Belzberg, FAIA, Principal, Belzberg Architects
Kate Diamond, FAIA, LEED AP, Principal, HMC Architects
Michael W. Folonis, FAIA, Principal, Michael W. Folonis Architects
Carolyn Ramsey, Los Angeles Program Director, Trust for Public Land
Clive Wilkinson, AIA, RIBA, President & Design Director, Clive Wilkinson Architects

Moderated by Jean Armbruster, MA, Director, LA County PLACE Program