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Vibrant Ecologies of Research
Editor: Aaron D. Knochel
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Featured Articles
Realm of the Dead (“Realm”) is a mixed-media installation performance where the installation can also be given separately as an art exhibit. A blend of social work and arts research, Realm incorporates practice-led, engagement, and design research – visual and performance art practi...
Realm of the Dead: A Mixed-Media Installation Performance
Rogério Meireles Pinto
Borrowing the Spanish word for “dinner,” CENAS is a transdisciplinary working group of scholars and artists developing, implementing and evaluating innovative approaches to healthy eating at the individual and community level, with arts practices at its center. Since 2012, CENAS has been involve...
Cultural Engagements in Nutrition, Arts and Sciences (CENAS)
Tamara Underiner, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Robert Karimi, and Seline Szkupinski Quiroga
ArtPlace America (ArtPlace) was a ten-year collaboration among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions that supported the field of creative placemaking – the intentional integration of arts, culture, and community-engaged design strategies into the process of equitab...
Translating Outcomes: Reflections on ArtPlace America’s Cross Sector Research
Jamie Hand
Recent Commentaries
Invited commentary on Vibrant Ecologies of Research
Ecologies of Transdisciplinary Research
There is a need to bridge the arts with the sciences to fully address the social and environmental crises facing the planet. Transdisciplinarity can meet this need if certain barriers are overcome: namely, delimited thinking and dysfunctional institutional structures.
Reviewer commentary on Choreografish: an arts-based, virtual reality, anxiety intervention for autism
Reviewing “Choreografish” for Ground Works
Sydney Skybetter
July 2021 · 10.48807/2022.1.0005
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