Arts and Health
The Arts, Culture, Society and Health Summer School returns!
Building on the success of previous years, the “Arts, Culture, Society and Health Summer School”, 2025 edition, supported by the Arts and Health axis of the CREAT Chair, will once again offer an interdisciplinary training course from August 25 to 29, 2025, both face-to-face and online. It will offer a space for reflection and experimentation around the links between art, well-being and the environment, with a particular focus on issues linked to climate change and eco-anxiety.
The school will draw on mesology, the science of environments, to rethink the place of humans in the living world through emotions, perceptions and interactions. Participants will explore how aesthetic experience – by arousing positive emotions – can become a lever for eco-responsible engagement and social transformation. The approach will mobilize the visual arts, music, neuroscience and indigenous knowledge, in particular the relational visions of nature held by indigenous cultures.
Open to graduate and post-graduate students and professionals in the fields of health, culture and the arts, the School will combine lectures, practical workshops, thematic evenings and feedback from cultural players. It aims to promote a paradigm shift towards a sustainable society where creativity, mental health and ecology are interconnected.