Tye Farrow: What Causes Health?

Topic: What Causes Health? (Hint: it isn’t your local hospital)

Invitation Details:

Date: 29^th June 2020

Time: 6.45pm (ET)

Zoom Link: https://rotary7080.zoom.us/j/99037038240
 

Speaker: Tye Farrow
Farrow Partners Inc Architects

What causes health: where we live, work, learn and play? With Covid-19, we have seen our hospitals and healthcare frontline workers do remarkable things to keep us safe under very stressed conditions. We know that it is up to each of us on how fast and far the virus will spread.

But we also know that our healthcare system cannot by itself deal with the other main health issues of our time. Chronic disease, obesity, loneliness, stress and diseases linked to poverty, accounts for 75% of the annual healthcare system spending in the United States. Health – or disease – is created in our communities, while hospitals are there to react – and repair.

Rotary has been responsible for eradicating 99.9% of polio globally since it began its mission in 1979 in the Philippines. What if Rotary committed itself to eradicating hospitals – as they presently exist – beyond the needs of episodic health events and health repairs?

What would we need to do to not only prevent disease, but also to create health in our societies; physical, social, civic and economic health? How would we design our homes, offices, schools and cities to create the conditions where we can thrive - not just cope?

This talk will define what health and wellness is; look at how our built environments can accelerate environmental, physical, societal – and importantly - mind health through new research in neuroscience as applied to architecture and the built environment. And finally, it will offer a way forward on how to create ‘enriched environments’ - that cause health.

Tye S. Farrow, FRAIC, B.Arch., M.Arch.U.D., LEED AP, OAA, MAIBC
Senior Partner
Farrow Partners Inc, Architects

About the speaker:
Tye S. Farrow, FRAIC, B.Arch., M.Arch.U.D., OAA, MAIBC, AIA Assoc, LEED AP
Senior Partner, Farrow Partners Architects

Tye Farrow has gained international recognition for designing places that enhance our capacity to thrive—culturally, economically, mentally and physically. He has initiated a global “Cause Health” movement aimed at raising expectations for design as the basis for total health, which extends beyond environmental sustainability and physical health to encompass our mind health; connects the dots between neuroscience and architecture.

Tye’s projects across North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East demonstrate leadership in this visionary quest. He has been invited to present his ideas at leading institutions including the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic, as well as venues from Helsinki Finland to Auckland New Zealand. His portfolio includes multiple international awards for designing some of the most technically advanced facilities in the world.

The Stockholm-based World Congress on Design and Health identified him as a global leader who is making "a significant contribution to health and humanity through the medium of architecture and design." Hospitality Design Magazine has deemed Farrow globally one of “nineteen earth champions and wellness visionaries who are changing what it means to do good.”
Tye Farrow holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto, a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University, and is in progress of obtaining a Master of Neuroscience applied to Architecture and Design from the University of Venice LUAV.

Tye volunteering activities include: President, Board of Governors, University of Toronto Alumni Association; Boundless Cabinet Member, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design University of Toronto; Alumni Faculty Representative, Faculty Council, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design University of Toronto; Past Vice-chair, College of Electors, University of Toronto; Past First Vice-president, Board of Governors Architectural Conservancy of Ontario; and Past Chairman of the Board, Board of Governors, Royal St. George’s College.