RESEARCH CHAIR IN THE CREATIVE ECONOMY AND WELL-BEING

At the Core of the Francophone Creative Economy

Research Axes

The Research Chair in the creative economy and well-being (CREAT) connects 4 research areas.

Culture in the regions

The main objective of this axis is to promote and foster research and creative and cultural initiatives in the regions, i.e. outside the major urban centres.

Arts and Health

Encourage and undertake research, training and knowledge-transfer initiatives to better understand the relationship between arts, culture and health.

Digital Creativity

Identify crucial issues within the digital creative industries to foster research, training and development in this sector.

Discoverability

Contribute to understanding the dynamics behind discoverability issues, disseminate knowledge on the subject and propose modes of action based on research.
16 February 2026

Call for papers, CREAT Conference

Culture in the regions Culture in the regions
Arts and Health Arts and Health
Digital Creativity Digital Creativity
Discoverability Discoverability
11 February 2026

SSHRC funds structuring initiative in digital creativity at the CREAT Chair

Culture in the regions Culture in the regions
Arts and Health Arts and Health
Digital Creativity Digital Creativity
Discoverability Discoverability
10 February 2026

Creative Economy, Well-Being, and Territory, Special Issue

Culture in the regions Culture in the regions
Arts and Health Arts and Health
Digital Creativity Digital Creativity
Discoverability Discoverability
9 February 2026

Launch of CREAT Podcast Series

Culture in the regions Culture in the regions
Arts and Health Arts and Health
Digital Creativity Digital Creativity
Discoverability Discoverability
24 August 2026 – 28 March 2026
[ Upon registration ]
Montréal
Arts and Health Arts and Health

École d’été 2026 – Arts, Culture, Société et Santé

28 May 2026 – 29 May 2026
[ Upon registration ]
Outaouais
Culture in the regions Culture in the regions

Study Days on the Concept of Culture in the Regions

21 May 2026 – 22 May 2026
[ Sur inscription ]
Montréal
Culture in the regions Culture in the regions
Arts and Health Arts and Health
Digital Creativity Digital Creativity
Discoverability Discoverability

CREAT Conference, May 21-22, 2026

Latest Podcasts & Videos

CREATivity in Action: Stories of Digital Practices

9 March 2026

Digital creativity is transforming the ways we produce and interact. Two researchers from CREAT—Philippe Vaucher, professor in the Unité d’enseignement et de recherche en création et nouveaux médias at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), and Louis-Philippe Rondeau, also a professor at the École des arts numériques de l’animation et du design at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (NAD/UQAC)—shed light on current innovations in this field.

“L’écho des Plantes” : An Ecological and Poetic Opera

2 March 2026

Is it possible to create an opera with plants?
This episode takes you inside a groundbreaking artistic initiative.

Imagined in collaboration with teenagers, L’Écho des Plantss is a transdisciplinary opera that brings together living systems, the arts, and science in a dynamic dialogue.

Charlotte Gagnon (Manager of Social Action and Education at Opéra de Montréal / Co-founder and Co-Artistic & Executive Director of Productions Rigoletta) and Antoine Bellemare (multidisciplinary artist and postdoctoral researcher) take us behind the scenes of this collective creation, where emotions, plant signals, and words intertwine to shape a new way of listening to the world.