Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

"First hand topical accounts are featured from leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists, artists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will discover how the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice can re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience".

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice CAIP Research Series

ArtsHealth: Centre for Research and Practice

Research and Practice

"ArtsHealth is the connection or interface between the arts and creativity, and health, science and well-being.

There is tremendous interest in research that explores the nature and effectiveness of the interface between creative arts, health and allied disciplines, and for artists and arts academics to work with those in the community actively involved in promoting health and well-being across all groups and in a wide range of contexts. Areas of interest include the interface between the arts and developments in therapies, educational strategies, treatments, techonolgies and environments that aim to promote and enhance individual health and healthy functioning communities.

Research shows that in clinical settings, encouraging patients to engage with the arts can help them to manage pain and the side effects of some treatments, to alleviate stress and anxiety and to come to terms with what can be major and distressing episodes in their lives.

Incorporating the arts into the design of health care facilities has positive benefits for staff, for patients and for their carers. Integrating the arts into the training and professional development of health professionals helps them better communicate with and understand their patients, from all social and ethnic groups".
from
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/artshealth/research/


http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/artshealth/

Leah Heiss

http://heiss.anat.org.au/?page_id=2

"Throughout this residency I am focusing on the emotional aspects of therapeutic technologies. I am developing two primary projects, both of which are of jewellery scale: arsenic - a vessel and wearable element for removing arsenic from drinking water; and diabetes: a neckpiece + ring for the administering of insulin via a micropatch".

Leah Heiss Luminesce July 2009

In luminesce Leah Heiss and Rosie Scott created an infinite subterrainean environment on the unreachable side of a shop front using a 2-way mirrored floor plane and Electroluminescent cable. The installation was part of the ambitious group show CONVERGENCE in which 8 artists/designers developed site specific works for the retail tenancies of a new laneway development in South Yarra, Melbourne. was part of the Design for Everyone program.

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