The network Human Health & Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet, aims to think critically, broadly and inclusively about cities in order to address health problems. Considering the complex relationship between human health, biodiversity and urban pollution, the group has produced in-depth case studies of seven cities – Berlin, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Nakuru, Perth, São Paulo, and Visakhapatnam – to explain the potentials and pitfalls of new biodiversity strategies for human health.
The studies are concentrated in four thematic fields in the sphere of multispecies urbanism, considering the environment as an active social agent in human co-production: (1) Global/Planetary Urban Health, (2) The Effects of Biophilic Cities on Health, (3) Cities and Infectious Diseases and (4) Urban Pollution and Multispecies Health.
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The network Human Health & Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet brings together an interdisciplinary team of urban scholars working with transdisciplinary partners, towards conceptualising and empirically examining the complex relationship between human health, biodiversity and urban pollution. The project is based at the architecture department of the Technical University Berlin in collaboration with The Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University in Germany; and University of São Paulo, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. The network also has partner associations in Germany, Peru, Indonesia and France.
Learning points
What can the concepts of global and planetary health contribute to the debate in medical anthropology?
How can multi-species health issues collaborate to rethink urban co-habitation spaces?
How can the notion of multi-species co-habitation reveal embodied inequalities of the Anthropocene?
How can the notion of multi-species and planetary health contribute to creative solutions in urban health?