A dengue prevention banner displayed in Serangoon, Singapore. Credits: B. Cautis/CNRS@CREATE.
Dates: 2022 – 2025
Intralaboratory Program Leader: Natacha AVELINE-DUBACH
Laboratory members involved in the program: Adèle ESPOSITO, Olivier TELLE, Céline VACCHIANI
Teams: CRIA, PARIS
Transversal subjects concerned: Mobilities and territories: towards a relational approach to space ; Data and protocols in the digital humanities
Partner Organisations: Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore Humanities and Social Sciences University (SUSS), Singapore Management University (SMU).
Extralaboratory Program leaders: Shirley HO (Co-Lead PI, NTU, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information), Alex COOK (NUS, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health), Borame Sue Lee DICKENS (NUS, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health), Patrick TAILLANDIER (INRAE), Frederic LANDY (Université Nanterre / UMR LA VUE ), Ishani MUKHERJEE (SMU, School of Social Sciences), Elisabeth PEYROUX (CNRS / UMR PRODIG), Sam Conrad JOYCE (SUTD, Meta Design Lab)
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Description: The SPACE project aims to develop a dynamic, adaptive approach to urban sustainability. The project draws upon analyses of the risk factors and sociospatial patterns that drive dengue transmission in Singapore, as well as the social and technical skills developed by individuals, community groups and state actors in response to disease propagation.
Many experts agree that even if populations can be immunized against particular viruses using drugs or vaccines, they must be prepared to live with infectious diseases because of the interrelations between infection agents and climate change. The management of epidemics therefore requires a paradigmatic shift in disease control. To achieve sustainable responses to health challenges, it is critical that local communities and urban stakeholders be regarded as active players in the production of knowledge, surveillance, and responses to epidemics. The SPACE project builds on this premise to develop a dynamic, adaptive approach to urban sustainability. The project draws upon analyses of the risk factors and sociospatial patterns that drive dengue transmission in Singapore, as well as the social and technical skills developed by individuals, community groups and state actors in response to disease propagation. The project will use the concept of “adaptive capacity” (AC) to explore the potential of community-based “latent social capital” as key assets for adaptive responses to health challenges related to dengue in its interplay with COVID-19 in the context of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative.
Based on the AC approach, the project targets four outcomes: a) improve the current spatiotemporal forecasting framework for dengue and Covid 19 outbreaks in Singapore using an Agent-Based Model; b) develop innovative policy ideas to enhance disease prevention and mitigation in Singapore’s built and green space; c) improve governmental communication strategies towards epidemic mitigation and control, and; d) assist in reshaping or building urban configurations at various scales so as to achieve an “antivirus-built environment”.
