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Foto eines Pinsels und eines Rührbesens, die beide mit Farbe versehen sind

study art therapy 2.0

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 →

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empirics vs. art theory

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 →

Eine Person von hinten, die mit beiden Händen an eine Wand mit schwarzer Farbe malt. Darüber steht: Gesichter einer Ausstellung – Ein Film über Kunst und Schizophrenie

faces of an exhibition

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 →

A screenshot of the scientif article | Ein Screenshot des wissenschaftlichen Artikels

open editors

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 →