Cultural education and aesthetic practice are – in research, teaching and practice – directly integrated into social contexts. The 16th conference of the Cultural Education Network on September 18-19, 2025 at our Faculty of Arts, Health and Social Science of the Medical School Hamburg is dedicated to this content. Read more →
I am concerned to see how attempts are once again being made to restrict and censor freedom of art and science. It goes without saying that our goal must be to intersectionally combat discrimination. But not by abolishing spaces of discourse – on the contrary. Read more →
Now there’s an update to my popular blog post about studying art therapy. I am regularly asked two things: whether I can recommend studying art therapy and where you can study art therapy. The first question is easy to answer: Yup. Art therapy is awesome and I would choose it again. This blog post on universities with art therapy courses in Germany is dedicated to the second question. Read more →
Digital, free of charge and open to all. On April 10, 2024, there will be our next film screening of FACES OF AN EXHIBITION: We will show the documentary on the work of our Pop-up Institute at our Campus Arts and Change of the Medical School Hamburg – including a Q&A session with collaborators. Be part of it! Read more →
Out now! My latest scientific article is now published at the Creativity Research Journal. It investigates a factor structure of my Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) and discusses current gaps between art theory and empirical research on art. All data, methodology, and a preprint version are freely available under the premises of Open Science. Read more →
Can art tell something about schizophrenia that language cannot express? FACES OF AN EXHIBITION is an immersive documentary that accompanies the first project of our Pop-Up Institute. A group of artists with and without schizophrenia experience create mental – an art festival on schizophrenia and against sanism. The documentary is now freely available. Read more →
Does delirium present itself in pictorial works? My colleagues just published a clinical study on this question, which uses my Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA). It is a systematic analysis of images of people in an geriatric context. As a co-author, I provided methodical advice on the use and analysis of Rizba. Read more →
Dismantle Sanism. On May 17, 2023, I will be holding a free digital workshop on sanism at the Medical School Hamburg. Sign up, drop in, and join the discussion on how we can make therapy and research more sensitive to discrimination. Read more →
Towards feminist research practices. Felicitas Kruschick and I just published our scientific article on knowledge equity and Open Science. The publication is part of the RIO special issue Bootstrapping the Open Science culture enabled by the Open Science Fellows Program by Wikimedia Germany. And of course, it’s Open Access. Read more →
Make things open, it makes them better. We just published our scientific article addressing diversity of editorial boards in social science. I’m so happy about this lovely postdisciplinary collaboration with Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher and Tamara Heck within the Open Science Fellow Program by Wikimedia Germany. The name speaks for itself: It’s completely open including Open Source and Open Access. Read more →
