Event:Well-being 2011

From Wikiprogress.org

The pursuit of high levels of well-being is a key goal of society, yet well-being is a complex multidimensional issue, difficult to define and even more difficult to measure. Well-being is more than issues about health, it is about our broader expectations, our needs, aspirations, hope, enthusiasm and understanding how these can be met. Wellbeing involves the ways that we interact with the environment, our encounters, our routine activities such as walking to work, to the shops, to school, aspects of work, play and relaxation. It concerns understanding and supporting the individual, learning from the approaches of other disciplines, assessing the outcomes and impacts of a wide range of interventions.

To further our understanding of well-being as an holistic concept, Birmingham City University, in partnership with the RIBA, is hosting the first international conference exploring the multi-dimensions of well-being bringing together professionals, practitioners and academics drawn from a wide range of disciplines to present papers, debate and discuss current understanding, practice and theory considering how we can achieve and support high levels of well-being. We invite those working in the area to present their ideas regarding:

Cross disciplinary exploration of the wider notions of well-being in relation to both theory and practice in ways that are relevant to a wide professional or academic audience Well-being and sustainability Developing and designing supportive natural and home environments, including their management and maintenance Modelling well-being and the relationships between individuals and their environment, the relevance and scope of different approaches Measuring and assessing the impact of interventions Supporting the individual - art based, performance and other innovative practice Community and salutogenic health The workplace and well-being Papers are subject to an international peer review panel with opportunities for publication in selected journals, on the web and by Earthscan

The conference includes:

A two day event based in Birmingham, UK. Keynote speakers drawn from a range of disciplines including architecture and environment, art based practice, design, health. Peer reviewed papers relating to the wider concept of well-being including aspects of practice, practice based examples and theory. Poster presentations. Parallel themed sessions. Plenary sessions. Publishing of conference proceedings. Conference dinner at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Deadline 26th November 2010

Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words in length and should be submitted via e mail. They should include author details, contact address and a brief outline of the paper. Papers may be exploratory in nature or consider the findings of existing studies drawn from academia or practice. They need to address issues relating to well-being; we are particularly interested to consider new and innovative work irrespective of its origins

Authors should identify

The theme that their paper falls under Context Methodology Outcomes Posters - abstracts for poster presentations should be a maximum of 150 words in length. The poster format size is A1.

(See additional guidelines for submission of abstracts; for registration refer to registration details)

See full details on the official conference website for more details

For all queries contact: Zoe Millman - email zk.Millman@bcu.ac.uk