You are kindly invited to follow LAUD TALKS: Spring 2021-2022 organized by the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, FADA, Bilkent University. The talk will be in Turkish.
Speaker: Şule Serter
Title: “Kentsel Mekanların Sağlığımıza Etkileri ve Aktif Yaşam”
Date & Place: April 5, 2022, Tuesday, 17.30-18.30 & FB309
***This is an online event. To obtain Zoom link and password, please contact to the department.
Content:
– Who is the “Active Living Association”? What does it do?
– The importance of movement in daily life and its effects on our health
– The connection of our mobility in daily life with the climate crisis (climate-health-movement triad)
– Spaces enriched with urban mobility and movement
Biography: Şule Serter was born in 1987 in Istanbul. She graduated from Trakya University Environmental Engineering Department in 2008. Serter started to work as a part-time supervisor at the Active Living Association in 2012. Serter, who has been the vice president of the Active Living Association since 2018, works to encourage individuals from all age groups, from 7 to 77, to include regular physical activity and movement in their lives. Specializing in movement, exercise, cycling, walking and walkability in daily life, the relationship between active life and climate crisis, and sustainable and active transportation routes, Serter has also been working in playgrounds, which are the most natural way for children to move, since 2015, and has been advocating for the right to play.