Congratulations to Nelson Mota: Comenius Grant Winner 2022

On behalf of the Teaching Academy, we would like to congratulate Nelson Mota from Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment. He won the Comenius Teaching Fellowship this year in Theme 3: Transdisciplinary collaboration.  

The title of his project is Housing as Healthcare: Mapping the correlation between housing design, microbiodiversity and health in The Hague. 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)