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THRIVE Health and Wellbeing in The Kuching Urban Thinkers Campus the City We Need – A Folio of Art is a three day global event bringing THRIVE and Text addresses a broad range together stakeholders from local HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN THE CITY WE NEED of environmental determinants that government, civil society, industry and influence human health and wellbeing academia to build consensus around 2015 in cities across the globe - a sense of issues for health and wellbeing in urban physical and spiritual place, a sense environments as an input to HABITAT of community, air and water quality, III, Quito, Ecuador, October, 2016. fresh food, housing, quality acoustic and visual surroundings, employment, THRIVE, designed to stimulate thought mobility and transportation, access to and ideas through the power of visual health care services, natural heritage art (sourced mainly from SE Asia) and and green space, security and safety, associated text, has been produced and urban regeneration. for participants in the 2016 Kuching Urban Thinkers Campus. It will also be THRIVE is published by the International circulated through electronic networks Institute for Global Health, United and can be freely downloaded Nations University, Kuala Lumpur, from internet sites including <www. Malaysia, which in partnership with thriveurban.info>. A selection of artwork Rifle Range Flats, Penang, Malaysia. Think City, Penang, Malaysia, is the from this publication will be on host of the Urban Thinkers Campus, display at the Kuching Urban Thinkers Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 24 - 27 Campus, Sarawak State Library, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. January, 2016. S C Shekar Digital photograph A Folio of Art and Text / Urban Thinkers Campus / Kuching / Malaysia / 2016 THRIVE A former resident of the Rifle Range Flats, Penang, still visits frequently to THRIVE meet with friends who live in the Flats (see cover picture) and to participate in the lively HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN THE CITY WE NEED social activities that take place - including a rigorous work-out in an outdoor, aerobic dance class on Saturday mornings. 2015 UNU-IIGH Photographic Library The Rifle Range Flats, Penang, were built in 1970 by Hochtief and Chee Seng. They consist of 3,699 units in nine blocks. Currently the monthly rental in two government owned blocks is ca USD $22 for a 1-bedroom unit, ca USD $26 for a 2-bedroom unit. In the other privately owned blocks the rent is ca USD $60 - $90 per month. The population of the Flats is about 10,000. The Rifle Range Flats together with Pekeliling Flats, Kuala Lumpur, were Malaysia’s first two affordable housing projects for the urban poor. Whereas the Pekeliling Flats, vacated in 2008, were raised to the ground amid great controversy in 2014, the Rifle Range Flats still stand with a thriving community in well maintained blocks.1 1 Workshop resource document, S. Kamachy, Think City ‘Urban Regeneration A Folio of Art and Text Workshop’, Penang, August 2015 Urban Thinkers Campus / Kuching / Malaysia / 2016 ii iii Acknowledgements THRIVE: Health and Wellbeing in the City 2016 Urban Thinkers Campus on Health The International Institute for Global Health We Need - A Folio of Art and Text and Wellbeing in the City We Need and Think City would like to acknowledge the support and generosity of the following Editor Uta Dietrich Organisers organisations: • International Institute for Global Health, • The State of Sarawak for sponsorship of Writer Matthew Williams UNU-IIGH Building, UKM Medical Centre, venue, food and transport in Kuching Jalan Yaacob Latiff, Bandar Tun Razak, • Sarawak State Library partners for local Designer John Reid 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA organisation • Think City Sdn. Bhd., Bangunan UAB, • Sarawak Convention Bureau for advice Publisher Gat Lebuh China, 10300 George Town, and promotional materials International Institute of Global Health, Penang, MALAYSIA United Nations University, Kuala Lumpur, A special thank you to the following people Malaysia. 2015 Partners for their personal contribution to the 2016 • Eastern Regional Organisation for Urban Thinkers Campus: Health and ISBN 97892-808-8102-8 Planning and Human Settlements Wellbeing in the City We Need Art Strategy: (EAROPH) Izmir, Daniel Lee, Daniel Tan, Oga Chan, © 2015 Copyright resides with the • World Federation of Academic Institutions Hafiz Lian, SURVIVAL! exhibition artists, photographers, visual fine artists and writers for Global Health (WFAIGH) Hawwah Koay, Khing Chuah, Eeyan Chuah, • International Society for Urban Health Duncan Cave, SC Shekar, Kamatchy THRIVE is a product of the 2016 Urban (ISUH) Sappani, participants in Think City’s Urban Thinkers Campus on Health and Wellbeing • Alliance for Healthy Cities Regeneration Workshop, and Robin Tan in the City We Need Art Strategy • International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) For furher information THRIVE has been produced for the • ICSU-UNU-IAMP Urban Health and Email: [email protected] 2016 Urban Thinkers Campus on Health Wellbeing programme Web: http://www.thriveurban.info/ and Wellbeing in the City We Need • The New York Academy of Medicine Sarawak State Library (NYAM) Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia 24 - 27 January, 2016 A graceful tree of natural heritage and spiritual significance Situated in the centre of Kuala Lumpur, the tree imparts an aura of calm and psychological refuge from the frenetic pace of nearby main streets. 2015. Photographs: John Reid iv v Contents Art Text A G Stokes S C Shekar Cover, 47, 66 Eva Struble 29 2 / 4 Introduction to the Folio / Thrive On-Line Veggies in the sky 2010 111.2 x 82.0 cm UNU-IIGH Photographic Library: Osman B Saaidin 34 6 The United Nations University Oil on canvas International Institute for Global Health i, 1-3, 7, 9, 25, 27, 30-1, 45, 53, 55, 58-9, 69 Rebecca Lanning 37 10 Think City Dislodged from their gardens on the John Reid v, 13-4, 16, 17, 35, 39, 41, 43 Timo Gill 38 urban fringe, vegetables fly over inner city 12 Health and Wellbeing in the City We Need suburbs where there is a burgeoning mood A G Stokes vi Marzena Wasikowska 50-1 Kuching, 2016 for growing things. Rae Hong 3 Preet and Hafiz Lian 54, 60, 64, 70 18 The Global Picture The Contested Landscapes of Western Ana Ooi 5 Liz Coats 56 22 Environmental Determinants of Urban Health Sydney Field Study, Digital Art Bank and Wellbeing Environment Studio, SoA, ANU Kai Wasikowski 8 Tony Capon 57 26 Sense of Physical and Spiritual Place Gayatri Nair 15 Caitlyn Miller-Knight 62 33 Mobility and Transportation Melissa Gryglewski 20 Tan Zheng Yuen 63 40 Sense of Community Rosario Lopez 21 Uta Dietrich 68 44 Fresh Food Yoshimi Hayashi 23 Kerry Shepherdson 71 49 Sunlight and the Visual Environment Junyi Mah 26 Pelita International School 73 54 Quality of Air and Water Chun Woei 28 60 Natural Heritage and Green Space 64 Access to Health Care Services 67 Security and Safety 69 Urban Regeneration 73 Postscript vii Thrive Introduction to the Folio THRIVE: Health and Wellbeing in the City Artworks have been selected from a We Need. A Folio of Art and Text is the pop-up exhibition, SURVIVAL! Health and outcome of the Kuching Urban Thinkers Wellbeing in the Urban Cave, in Penang, Campus (UTC) Art Strategy. The folio is August 2015 - an Art Strategy event that intended to stimulate thought and discussion brought together artists who orbit Penang’s amongst the participants of the 2016 Urban Hin Bus Depot Art Centre and who attend Thinkers Campus: Health and Wellbeing the Pelita International School, Penang. in the City We Need, Kuching, Sarawak, SE Asian photojournalist participants in Malaysia, January 2016. The folio brings a Think City Urban Regeneration Workshop imagery from more than 20 artists together in Penang, August 2015, were invited to with informative text by writer Matthew submit material from their personal folios. Williams about the thematic focus of Artists from Malaysia, Japan, Columbia the Kuching UTC – the environmental USA, Australia and India have kindly determinants of urban health and wellbeing. responded to requests to include their work. From an initial focus in Penang, the Photographs and artworks referencing the Art Strategy became progressively more Kuching UTC theme have also been chosen international in curatorial scope. By no for reproduction from the Photographic means geographically comprehensive, Library, United Nations University the artwork included in THRIVE has been International Institute of Global Health gathered from a number of sources. (UNU-IIGH), Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, and from the Digital Art Bank, Environment Osman B Saaidin, a painter from Kedah, Malaysia, Studio, School of Art, Australian National works in a off-street studio in Penang on portraits University, Canberra, Australia. and city scenes. Saaidin’s painting of a sandal shop (wall display, lower centre) is reproduced on page 24. 2015. UNU-IIGH Photographic Library John Reid, Kuching UTC Art Strategy 1 2 Thrive Online / www.thriveurban.info ThriveUrban is the phrase that represents the outcomes of healthy and sustainable urban development: a place, small or large, that is built and functions in a way that its residents can thrive. ‘ThriveUrban’ is used as the title for the website and the key hash tag of the Urban Thinkers Campus.