All good things are worth waiting for and getting published. My study conducted in 2017 has now been published in the Creativity Research Journal after a few rounds of peer review. The study validated the Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) on 880 drawings, paintings, and collages created by non-artists and non-professional artists. Spoiler: It works. Read more →
We are very pleased that we were able to win the Eckhard Busch Foundation as an additional supporter of our Pop-up Institute for 2022. The foundation supports our current science communication project on schizophrenia, which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Read more →
We’ve been to Marzahn and made art. On September 5/6, 2021, one of our subprojects of the Pop-up Institute met and worked together with spray chalk, gouache, charcoal, pigments and object trouvés in a production hall that will soon be demolished. Besides two experts with schizophrenia experience as well as two artists and creative arts therapists, Nina Wesemann cinematically accompanied us. Read more →
We can hardly believe it! With the Pop-up Institute we have just experienced not only a great kick-off meeting, our first project is now also being documented on film by Nina Wesemann. This is made possible by the Volkswagen Foundation, which in addition to funding our Pop-up Institute is also supporting the creation and distribution of the film. Read more →
Out now! In 2019 I presented my research at the Inaugural International Art Therapy Practice/ Research Conference at the Queen Mary University of London organized by the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and the American Art Therapy Association (AATA). It was one of the best conferences I attended and I met wonderful new international colleagues. Now the conference preceedings book is published including my chapter, for which I provide you an Open Access preprint. Read more →
Yay, our Pop-up Institute starts into the artistic phase! In the kick-off meeting on June 24/25, 2021, all collaborators met for the first time in Berlin to artistically work together. In the team: Experts with schizophrenia experience, experts in Creative Arts Therapies, visual arts, music, performance, dance and theater as well as a director and camerawoman. Read more →
Gerade war ich Gästin beim RADIO FOLKWANG, dem Podcast des Museums Folkwang, und habe dort mit Annika Schank und Sarah Bockting über die Sammlung, Psychologie, Kunsttherapie und Mental Health gesprochen. Dabei haben wir uns so gut unterhalten, dass es schnell mal zwei Stunden und daraus zwei Folgen wurden. Hört rein. Read more →
Open ≠ equity. As a mentor in the Open Science Fellow Program and in collaboration with Wikimedia Germany, other mentors, and a fellow I created a learning unit on Knowledge Equity. It includes short video inputs on the Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030, privilege and discrimination in research, inclusive education, social inequality in academia, and language diversity in research. Freely available as always. Read more →
Together with Raja Goltz and Lea Jungmann, I am organizing the Forum Positions in the summer semester 2021 at the HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts Ottersberg. The event offers exciting talks on arts, science, pedagogy, psychology and intersectionality. The talks are partly in German, partly in English, always digital, public and free of charge. Register and be part of it. Read more →
My colleagues Johanna Masuch and Leonie Antwerpen, with whom I just conducted a collaborative study, are planning a transdisciplinary conference on art therapy and research in September 2021, where I’m also invited as a speaker. All information on the Call for Posters and registration in this blogpost. Read more →
