Healthy City Design 2025 International Congress coming to Salford in October

By GM Moving | 07 August 2025 | TAGS: healthy active places

GM Moving is to be an event partner when the Healthy City Design 2025 International Congress comes to the Lowry at MediaCity in Salford on 14-15 October.

World-leading practitioners, researchers, and policy thinkers from around the world will be coming to Greater Manchester with in-person and virtual tickets now available.

GM Moving are curating a panel session focusing on joyful placemaking: The role of joy, creativity and play in health creation as part of the Congress.

Strategic Lead for Healthy Active Places, Kelly-Marie Rodgers, will also be speaking on panel delving into Creating Age-Friendly Homes.

Elsewhere there are sessions covering place-based design for mental health, inclusive neighbourhood parks, Live Well, community-led regeneration and much more.

The Congress includes opportunities to move with Invisible Cities offering 3 unique walking tours while 360 Degree Society are running a guided walk on Tuesday evening.

Localities can also enter The Healthy City Design Awards which recognise innovation and excellence in the urban built environment.

The deadline for the entering the awards is 4 September with entries evaluated by an independent panel of three judges on each of the eight categories.

Strategic Lead for Healthy Active Places, Kelly-Marie Rodgers, said:

“It will be great to welcome policymakers and practitioners to explore fresh ways to create healthier cities and communities that promote inclusive growth and social development.

“The built environment in which we live and work can provide, or severely reduce, our ability to move every day which has a huge impact on our physical and mental health.

“There’s so much innovative and exciting work happening throughout Greater Manchester which is creating healthy, active places and supporting active lives for all.”

Find out more about The Healthy City Design Congress here.