Learning from healthcare professionals
In the healthcare sector, art is increasingly used for experimenting with new ways of bringing innovation. And vice versa, artists and designers might have much to learn from care professionals about caring, communicating in non-verbal contexts, and the importance of putting process before endresult.
Programme Re-creation
One inspiring example of such a cooperation between art and healthcare is happening at care home Reinaerde De Heygraeff in Woudenberg. Here, the programma Re-creatie (Dutch website) unites artists, designers, healthcare professionals and their clients. This secluded care facility is home to about 160 people with serious mental and/or physical impairments. Ever since 2018, experiments with integrating art and creativity in the daily care routines are going on here, which has lead to a long-term transdisciplinary cooperation.
How to map this combination? And what can we learn and share from it?
However, it still remains a challenge to grasp exactly how the arts can function in the context of healthcare. What elements are crucial for successful cooperations? What can we learn from initiatives such as Re-Create? And how can we share this knowledge with other healthcare organisations and art practices? To answer such questions, we apply artistic mapping methods in this project to investigate, document, and share the interactions between art and healthcare (and their complexity). To literally chart them on a map. The goal of this project is to get a better understanding of the community that has grown at De Heygraeff and to express explicitly how art and healthcare mutually interact together. By putting this literally on a map, CAR(E)TOGRAPHY, will create a detailed image of this complex interplay. This not only allows a thorough understanding of the local situation, but can also make these findings useful for others who work in similar practices. The created maps thus eventually will function as documentation and navigation tools for use at the intersection between healthcare and art..svg?ext=.svg){kind=logo}
