How can further insight into the relationship between artistic and socially added values of arts and culture initiatives result in new ways of working together? Collaborating with the KultuurLoket of VRIJDAG Groningen and contributing to the Artistic Platform currently being set up in Veendam, researchers …

For environmental governance to be more effective and transformative, it needs to enhance the presence of experimental and innovative approaches for participation. This enhancement requires a transformation of environmental governance, as too often the (public) participation process is set up as a formal …

This teaching toolkit for critical materials research is developed for educators in higher design and arts education. It comes out of a 2-year project funded by the NRO Comenius Teaching Fellowship program at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. The project invited a group of design educators …

Workshop in artistic reseach as part of Pre-PhD program

Abstract: This study sought to provide insight into how art activities influence the well-being of long-term care residents, and how artists and caregivers collaborate in offering these activities. In two long-term care facilities for people with dementia and one for older people with chronic psychiatric …

At the invitation of the Estonian Academy of Arts, I taught this three day intensive course in Lahemaa National Park in Estonia.

College voor de Master Operational Leadership in Performing Arts (Master OLPA) van de Hanzehogeschool

An emerging body of research indicates that active arts engagement can enhance older adults’ health and experienced well‐being, but scientific evidence is still fragmented. There is a research gap in understanding arts engagement grounded in a multidimensional conceptualization of the value of health …

Seminar als deel van de inauguratie-ceremonie van lector Jan van Boeckel. Welkomstwoord Judith van der Elst, presentation Andri Snaer Magnason (IJsland), reactie Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair Futures Literacy, HUAS, reactie Ina Horlings, Prof. Socio-spatial planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences (RUG), reactie …