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We are delighted to share the *extended* call for proposals for *InSight 2:
Engaging the Health Humanities*, an international exhibition and
publication offering frameworks for examining linkages, experiences,
visualisations and productive imaginings at the nexus of the health
humanities, design and community engagement.
The health humanities, an interdisciplinary domain of study which connects
the arts, humanities, bioethics and social sciences, among other areas, is
concerned with human needs and experiences related to health and
healthcare. A human-centred design approach to health and well-being
involves community members in identifying, and co-creating solutions to,
issues and problems that affect them. Community engagement has emerged as a
priority for many educational institutes for the “mutually beneficial
exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and
reciprocity” (Carnegie 2006).
The *InSight 2* exhibition will be centred at the Fine Arts Building
Gallery at the University of Alberta, Canada from May 14 to June 8, 2013.
The publication will accompany the exhibition.
Building on the InSight: Visualizing Health Humanities project (
http://insight.healthhumanities.ca/), *InSight 2* explores how we can
engage the health humanities to help us work collaboratively across
disciplines and communities, to imagine and design innovative and
transformative processes, communications, products/devices, environments,
services and experiences that can help to promote our health and
well-being. We are particularly interested in insights and perspectives
that challenge habitual frames of mind and open up opportunities to explore
uncharted territories in formats that blur the boundaries, for example,
between the visual and the textual, the tactile and the virtual, and the
conventional and the radical.
We invite visual, textual, tactile, audio, performative or hybrid proposals
for the *InSight 2: Engaging the Health Humanities** *exhibition and
publication that create opportunities for dialogue and debate regarding
areas of practice and knowledge at the nexus of the health humanities,
design and community engagement.
*Proposals should be submitted via email to [log in to unmask] by
January 25, 2013. *
Visit *www.insight2.healthhumanities.ca* for regularly updated information
about the *InSight 2* project, which in addition to the exhibition and
publication, includes a two-day symposium planned for May 2013.
Sincerely,
The *InSight 2* Steering Committee
BONNIE SADLER TAKACH
Associate Professor, Design Studies; Coordinator, Visual Communication
Design, Department of Art & Design
PAMELA BRETT-MACLEAN
Assistant Professor, Division of Studies in Medical Education (DSME);
Director, Art & Humanities in Health & Medicine (AHHM) Program, Faculty of
Medicine & Dentistry
AIDAN ROWE
Assistant Professor, Design Studies (Interactive New Media), Department of
Art & Design
*For further information*
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www.insight2.healthhumanities.ca
* Apologies for any cross-posting *
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Aidan Rowe
Assistant Professor in Design Studies (Interactive New Media) & Coordinator
of Visual Fundamentals
University of Alberta, 3-77A Fine Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2C9
p: 001 780 492 8591
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