Nelson Mota

Comenius Teaching Fellow 2022

Housing as Healthcare: Mapping the correlation between housing design, microbiodiversity and health in The Hague

Comenius Fellowship project
The project is about the importance of biodiversity for public health, which is widely acknowledged. However, few people are aware of how much housing design decisions influence the interaction between humans, non-humans and the diversity of microorganisms that populate our living environment. To overcome this knowledge gap, this project engages architecture and (bio-)medicine teachers and students in a transdisciplinary collaboration and cocreation process. Together they will study residential neighbourhoods in The Hague, developing a pioneering combination of environmental microbiome research with ethnographic research and spatial analysis. The outcome of this project will support the development of innovative Microbiome-inspired housing approaches to improve health and well-being. (nro.nl, Comenius Programma)