Arts & HealthSeptember 15, 2025Lucy Woodham, Jazmín Cevasco
Dance offers a unique lens for exploring mental well-being via the 4E cognition framework-embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive perspectives. Research has focused on embodied mindfulness, but broader cognitive potential remains underexplored. Using a mixed-methods online design, 64 adult dancers (aged 21-45) from ten countries and diverse genres completed the Embodied Mindfulness...
Arts & HealthOctober 1, 2024Russell Weili Chan, Sharon Peiling Chen, Dee Yu Teng Chia
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused mandatory lockdowns worldwide, exacerbating mental health issues created by social isolation. Aimed to improve mental health and maintain engagement, the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) rapidly deployed an online programme called Unwind with SAM to engage the public with the museum's contemporary art collection coupled with meditation. The programme focused on...
Arts & HealthMay 4, 2019S. Riches, Rich Maskey, Patrick Dishman et al.
Background The arts can increase public awareness of mental health. Stigma about psychosis remains high despite common occurrences of psychotic experiences in the general population (e.g. hearing voices, seeing visions, and other unusual sensory experiences). Targeted approaches may therefore benefit stigma reduction. This project aimed to produce an immersive art installation that increased...