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- Orru, Anna Maria, 1976, et al.
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AHA! festival 2015
- 2015
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The AHA festival investigates the borders between art and science in a three-day event at the Chalmers University of Technology hosted by the Department of Architecture. An international festival intended to provide enlightening experiences, staging surprises, new thoughts and displaced perspectives that lead to alternative modes of thinking about the space between art and science. We invite scientists (physicists, historians, mathematicians, medical students), artists (dancers, musicians, painters, poets, chefs) and not least architects, who reside in these borderlands and wish to share their vision and work. The key intention is to celebrate both art and science as key knowledge building devices.
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- Falk Erhag, Hanna, et al.
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
- 2022
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter by the editors summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.
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Barnet i kulturen
- 2020
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In: Barnläkaren. - 1651-0534. ; :5, s. 1-32
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)
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- Brattström, Victoria, 1972
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Playing the Stanislavskian Magic If in organizational change (Performative lecture)
- 2017
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In: The Future of Performing Arts: Theatre Expanded, International conference, Performing Arts Centre Vaba Lava (Telliskivi 60a/C1, Tallinn) Estonia, 22-23 May, 2017.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Presentation summary: Victoria Brattström is a Swedish Theatre Director and Actor currently pursuing her PhD studies in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. As the point of departure for her performative lecture at the Vaba Lava Theatre Expanded conference she shares experiences from her work with Artistic Interventions in Organisations and presents examplesfrom her current thesis work. The PhD study Playing oneself as if another acting and directing strategies as practical approaches in person centered heath care is a collaborative project co-founded by theAcademy of Music and Drama(www.hsm.gu.se)andUniversity of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care(www.gpcc.gu.se.) The study holds the dual aim of exploring: (1) how particular techniques of acting and directing can contribute to person-centred healthcare practices and (2) how ideas underpinning person-centred healthcare practices can have an impact on theatre-based thinking and on the field of performing arts in general. Within the study the Konstantin Stanislavski (1863 - 1938) concept of the Magic If is piloted in person-centred health care as a means to frame and interpret the phenomena of partnership. In her presentation, Victoria elaborates on how the Stanislavskian Magic If and Method of Physical Action could be used to shed light on interpersonal aspects of communication between healthcare professionals and patient. She also discusses how ideas from the person-centred healthcare context, and their connectedness to existential philosophy, may impact theatre-based thinking and practice.
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- Ibrahim, Muna
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Interior design elements influence on users’ wayfinding capacity in a Swedish hospital setting
- 2017
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In: ARCH17 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE, RESEARCH, CARE AND HEALTH CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. - 9788793585003 ; , s. 91-104
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Wayfinding has been recognized as an important aspect that should be carefully considered, especially in the design of healthcare facilities. Previous studies have identified environmental elements that influence wayfinding, but there is still a lack of understanding on which properties of environmental elements and features that has the potential to aid wayfinding in hospital areas (Pati, Harvey, Willis & Pati, 2015). This pilot study examined the potential of interior design elements (including artwork) to support the participants’ ability to navigate in one of the reception halls at SUS Malmö hospital. In order to focus on the wordless wayfinding capacity, two subject categories were participating, 1) Arabic speaking visitors; 2) and Swedish speaking visitors. The participants, 4 females and 7 males, responded to a questionnaire in dialogue with the researcher. The data analysis showed that artworks, plants, skylight, furniture, wooden material on walls, and a tilted reception cube were the most eye-catching physical elements associated with wayfinding. Written signs were seen as helpful but sometimes useless due to the fact that they are written only in the Swedish language, whereas artworks was the common language between most of the participants and therefore interesting to further explore. Since the majority of the participants disliked the artworks in the reception hall, the influence of aesthetic preferences on wayfinding could possibly be a fruitful path of further investigation.
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- Ibrahim, Muna
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Effects of Art and Design on Orientation in Healthcare Architecture : A study of wayfinding and wayshowing in a Swedish hospital setting
- 2019
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis investigates the role of interior design elements, especially artwork, in way-searchers’ wayfinding and orientation in hospital environments. The thesis considers the way-searcher’s background and the impact of cultural belonging, occupation, memories, aesthetic preferences, and language, and the influence that such factors might have on the perception of the hospital environment and its guiding elements. The aim is to increase the knowledge about the role of art objects and how they relate to design processes by studying how art and design appear to users at three different sites at the hospital SUS Malmö, and also to gain insight into decisions made about the design and the placement of public art in a health-care environment.The thesis consists of four studies developed to complement each other. They include three different experiencing perspectives: the visitor’s perspective, the designer’s perspective, and the observing researcher’s perspective. This mix of perspectives helps to obtain a broad understanding of the complex experience and effectiveness of wayshowing design in a health-care environment and of the intentions behind making, choosing, and installing art for and in hospitals. A mixed-methods approach is used that mainly relies on qualitative studies, but that also has some quantitative elements. The techniques used for collecting information are: questionnaire, on-site interviews, semi-structured interviews, walking interviews, observation, and photographic documentation. This mixed-methodological approach is used to attain a successively deeper understanding and acquire more diverse knowledge of the role that interior design and artwork have for wayfinding, and by that also pointing to the development of wayfinding theory, especially as it refers to notions like orientation, wayfinding, legibility, affordance, and familiarity. These theoretical concepts are used here in analyses and descriptions of way-searchers’, especially newcomers’, experiences and perceptions of the interior health-care environment.The four studies of this thesis point out different areas of interest for analyzing wayfinding in hospitals, thus also indicating how they could be considered to guide the design of wayshowing in hospital environments. The areas of interest can be listed as: spatial heterogeneity (about the making of contrasts between spaces); evoked familiarity (about elements in the hospital space that may bring back memories); overfamiliarity (about places taken for granted due to frequent use); broad participation (about consulting a range of users in all stages of the realization of a hospital environment); users’ background (about considering ethnicity, cultural knowledge, occupation, and previous experiences of art), and time- and duration effects (about acknowledging that perception might change during visits or in stays of a longer duration).
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- Falk, Hjalmar, 1978
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Kultur och hälsa inom utbildningar vid Göteborgs Universitet
- 2016
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Föreliggande rapport utgör en undersökning av kursverksamheten vid Göteborgs universitet. Syftet har varit att kartlägga förekomsten av kurser med kultur och hälsa-tematik vid lärosätet under perioden höstterminen 2014 till höstterminen 2015. Undersökningen har genomförts på uppdrag av Centrum för kultur och hälsa under våren och sommaren 2015.
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- Andersson, Anders-Petter, et al.
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Vocal and tangible technology for music and health
- 2013
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Our voice and body are important parts of our self-expression and self-experience. They are also essential for our way to communicate and build relations cross borders like abilities, ages, locations, backgrounds and cultures. Voice and tangibility gradually become more important when developing new music technology for the Music Therapy and the Music and Health fields, due to new technology possibilities that have recently arisen. For example smartphones, computer games and networked, social media services like Skype. In this paper we present and discuss our work with voice and tangible interaction in our ongoing research project. The goal is to improve health for families, adults and children with severe disabilities through use of collaborative, musical, tangible sensorial media. We build on use of voice in Music Therapy and studies by Lisa Sokolov, Diane Austin, Kenneth Bruscia and Joanne Loewy. Further we build on knowledge from Multi-sensory stimulation and on a humanistic health approach. Our challengeis to design vocal and tangible, sensorially stimulating interactive media, that through use reduce isolation and passivity and increase empowerment for all the users. We use sound recognition, generative sound synthesis, vibrations and cross- media techniques, to create rhythms, melodies and harmonic chords to stimulate body- voice connections, positive emotions and structures for actions. The reflections in this paper build on action research methods, video observations and research-by-design methods. We reflect on observations of families and close others with children with severe disabilities, interacting in three vocal and tangible installations.
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- Sigurdson, Ola, 1966
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Culture, arts and health: A multi-disciplinary Swedish perspective
- 2015
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In: Journal of Applied Arts & Health. - : Intellect. - 2040-2457 .- 2040-2465. ; 6:2, s. 139-148
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The primary aim of this article is to introduce how culture and health, as a field of enquiry as well as practice, is organized conceptually in Sweden. A secondary and minor aim is to launch a more general discussion of the relationship between ‘culture’, ‘arts’ and ‘health’ and their implication for multi-disciplinary research. After introducing how ‘Culture and Health’ as an academic as well as applied field of enquiry has been introduced in Sweden and giving some examples of current research, I relate this project to a more general discussion of definitions of health and culture in a Swedish and an English-speaking setting. In particular, I show that ‘Culture and Health’ in a Swedish setting encompasses both ‘Arts and Health’ and ‘Medical Humanities’. Finally, I offer some pragmatic considerations on why a multi-disciplinary perspective is vital for ‘Culture and Health’, ending up in a concluding presentation of the implications of this multi-disciplinarity for the organ- ization of the field of ‘Culture and Health’ in Sweden.
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