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Children’s capacity to participate safely, critically, and creatively in digital environments is increasingly important for inclusive and sustainable education. However, educational policies and digital learning initiatives often overlook the home as a significant site of digital literacy development, particularly in non-Western contexts. This study examined Saudi children’s digital media practices at home, age-related differences in these practices and parental mediation, and the benefits and challenges perceived by children and parents. Informed by New Literacy Studies, a concurrent mixed-methods design combined a survey of 1333 parent–child pairs and four focus groups involving 12 children aged 9–12 and 11 mothers of children aged 6–8. Findings were interpreted through Pegrum et al.’s four digital literacy domains: communicating, informing, collaborating, and (re)designing. Compared with younger children, older children reported broader, more independent, and more socially oriented digital practices. Parents of older children reported greater emphasis on monitoring and supporting self-regulation. Participants identified benefits related to language learning, skill development, creativity, and social connection, alongside concerns about screen time, harmful content, advertising, and attention. The findings highlight the need for culturally responsive policies and coordinated support among families, schools, policymakers, and platforms to advance equitable, safe, and sustainable digital education. Full article

Cultural and creative tourism can support sustainable development in rural and cross-border areas by activating locally embedded cultural resources while strengthening community identity and destination distinctiveness. This study examines local residents’ perceptions of the importance of and satisfaction with cultural and creative attractions and activities in the rural cross-border municipalities of Matulji (Croatia) and Ilirska Bistrica (Slovenia). A quantitative field survey was conducted in March and April 2025 among 151 adult residents (Matulji: n = 99; Ilirska Bistrica: n = 52). Importance and satisfaction with the tourism valorisation of individual cultural and creative resources were measured on five-point Likert-type scales, and paired-samples t-tests were used to assess within-municipality differences between the two dimensions. The results show relatively high perceived importance of cultural and creative resources in both municipalities, but different patterns of alignment between importance and satisfaction. In Matulji, statistically significant gaps were identified for most of the assessed resources, whereas in Ilirska Bistrica, significant gaps were found for a smaller set of attractions and activities. Carnival customs combined high importance with high satisfaction in both local contexts, while several heritage, landscape and creative resources showed room for improved tourism valorisation. By applying a resource-specific importance–satisfaction perspective to residents in a rural cross-border setting, the study provides a more differentiated basis for identifying management priorities and for designing culturally sensitive, locally grounded tourism development. Full article

This paper argues that contemporary generative AI systems are not yet consistently equipped to provide the level of culturalization required in the creative and cultural industries (CCIs). Debates on generative AI in cultural domains have focused primarily on productivity, innovation, intellectual property, labor disruption and bias. While these concerns are important, they do not fully capture a more basic issue: cultural production depends on forms of meaning that are historically situated, socially mediated and unevenly distributed across languages, communities and markets. In such contexts, fluency, safety and technical usefulness are not sufficient measures of system quality. The paper discusses how an existing line of thought from localization, cross-cultural design and culturalization research should be carried into the era of generative AI as explicit attention to cultural context, symbolic meaning and interpretive plurality. The CCIs provide a particularly revealing testbed for this claim because they expose limitations of generic AI evaluation in domains where value depends on tone, memory, symbolism and representation. The argument combines published evidence on cultural bias and uneven representation in contemporary models with diagnostic case studies using ChatGPT 5.5 in museums, heritage sites and pilgrimage contexts. These studies illustrate concrete cultural-mediation problems under the conditions tested. On that basis, the article proposes a framework for culturalized generative AI and outlines an integrated research and governance agenda spanning AI, the humanities and cultural-sector practice. Full article

Post-consumer clothing waste is a growing problem that contributes to environmental and resource management issues. The second-hand market redirects these garments away from landfills, but a large portion still ends up as waste. These waste clothes mainly originate from developed countries and are then exported to developing countries, but almost half of the garments imported are not sold due to poor quality. This leads to the generation of more textile waste and environmental pollution. These challenges highlight need for sustainable solutions that enhance social, environmental, and economic benefits in the developing countries to which clothing waste is exported to. Encouraging methods that extend garment lifespan, promote reuse and support the principles of the circular economy creates a cleaner environment and enables more efficient use of resources. This study aimed to investigate how design can be used to catalyse change, using a co-design approach with senior female citizens from a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Cape Town, South Africa. The participants transformed second-hand clothes from the second-hand market into valuable products for reuse. The fieldwork was conducted between 23 May and 24 October 2024 to explore the role of design in enhancing sustainability, prolonging garment lifespan, and supporting local entrepreneurship. The data collection methods for this qualitative study included observational fieldwork, interactive co-design workshops, and semi-structured interviews. Analysis of the empirical data underscores the transformative potential of the intervention. Initially, the results showed that participants used intuitive sewing and unsystematic garment modification and were creative yet unaware of a structured design process and sustainability principles. Following the expert-led co-design workshops, participants’ intuitive redesign practices developed into a hybrid process combining garment assessment, design planning, reconstruction, and finishing. The project produced 37 documented outputs across clothing, footwear-related samples, and accessories, showing how selected post-consumer garments acquired renewed utility through redesign. Participants reported increased confidence, a stronger sense of purpose, and a willingness to share their upcycling skills within their communities. These findings informed a Community-Based Upcycling Framework linking garment recovery and redesign with community learning, environmental stewardship, and potential livelihood pathways. Full article

Second-tier cities in Northern Thailand possess rich cultural, natural, and historical assets, yet remain underexplored relative to primary tourist destinations, despite their strategic importance for decentralising tourist flows and promoting sustainable tourism development. This study investigates the effects of tourism components on destination image, tourist experience, and destination loyalty in second-tier cities in Northern Thailand. It also evaluates the relative contribution of these tourism components in predicting destination loyalty. The study integrates Pull Theory and the Stimulus–Organism–Response (SOR) framework to explain the relationships among tourism components, destination image, tourist experience, and loyalty. Quantitative research was employed using purposive sampling. Data were collected from 360 Thai travellers who had visited second-tier cities in Northern Thailand. The findings indicate that eleven hypotheses were supported, while four were not. Art city emerged as the strongest predictor of both destination image and tourist experience, highlighting the importance of creative and sustainable tourism. Tourist experience demonstrated the strongest influence on destination loyalty. However, amenities and amiability showed no significant effects on destination image or tourist experience. These findings offer a foundation for destination management organisations to prioritise resource allocation toward high-impact experiential components rather than generic service improvements, particularly in resource-constrained second-tier city contexts. The study also underscores the value of integrating creative and cultural tourism strategies with sustainability goals, balancing visitor attraction with heritage preservation and community well-being. The findings provide practical implications for destination management and tourism policy, particularly in promoting creative and sustainable tourism development in second-tier cities. Full article

Historic coastal built heritage across Europe is increasingly exposed to multiple forms of degradation, shifting resulting from the anthropic and to environmental pressures. Interventions aimed at its reuse still struggle to reconcile regeneration requirements with the creative, social, and economic functions to keep these sites relevant to their communities. The Joint Declaration “Europe for Culture—Culture for Europe” (2026), and the European Commission provides a new shared culture and creative-led vision for interpreting regeneration processes as connection among individual, social, spatial, territorial, environmental, and institutional dimensions. This vision raises specific architectural and planning challenges: the need to reconcile overlapping heritage, landscape, and environmental protection regimes with the introduction of new creative and social functions, and to favour lightweight, reversible, and demountable interventions over permanent transformations. However, a gap lies in the lack of structured tools capable of guiding the creative regeneration of historic coastal built heritage under these constraints. While culture and creative-led regeneration, and adaptive reuse have been extensively investigated, the translation of creative regeneration principles into operational actions for the transformation of historic coastal built heritage into artist residencies remains insufficiently systematised into replicable design criteria for architectural and planning practice. Within this framework, the research aims to translate the aforementioned culture and creative-led vision into operational guidelines for improving the adaptive reuse of built heritage as artist residencies, providing a set of criteria that link European cultural-policy objectives to concrete architectural and planning actions for artist-in-residence adaptive reuse. The iterative methodology consists in three main phases: a knowledge phase, based on bibliometric and systematic analysis of the literature review and best practices; a development phase, which systematises these outcomes into operational framework (consisting of dimension and criteria) and integrates them in an Impact Evaluation Matrix; and a transfer phase, in which the proposed framework is applied and tested in an Italian case study. The research outcomes are operational guidelines for the creative regeneration of the built environment, conceived as innovative tools to guide an appropriate project in the historic urban coastal landscape. The proposed framework, unlike existing adaptive-reuse and artist-in-residence approaches, integrates functional, spatial, socio-cultural, and economic criteria within an Impact Evaluation Matrix. It has been tested in the case study of Torre Minerva within the Punta Campanella Marine Protected Area in Italy. Full article

Public health research predominantly works in the present tense. It documents the disparities that structural racism and gendered racism produce and projects them forward, modeling futures as extrapolations of present harm. For Black women, positioned at the intersection of racism, sexism, and other systems of domination, and bearing some of the most persistent inequities in maternal, reproductive, and chronic disease outcomes, this orientation is doubly constraining. It can specify what must be dismantled far more readily than it can imagine what should be built, and it cedes the imagining of Black women’s health futures to the institutions that engineered present inequities. This conceptual paper argues that the speculative method, drawn from Afrofuturism, Black feminist futurity, feminist futures methodologies, and participatory speculative design, offers public health a complementary and underused capacity. The speculative method brings two analytically distinguishable emphases to this work. It makes it perceptible how intersecting structures foreclose on opportunities to optimize Black women’s health and the collective imagination toward Black women’s futures, more broadly an orientation that PHCR and intersectionality share. It draws on documented, replicable techniques including collaborative speculation, design probes, artifact-making, and visionary fiction to co-produce health futures with Black women themselves. This is already demonstrated empirically: Hill-Jarrett and colleagues’ Radical Imagination program shows Afrofuturist creative-aging methods improving brain health programming for older Black women, and parallel work in human–computer interaction has used Afrofuturist speculative co-design with Black communities more broadly. Bridging the Black feminist futurity, feminist-futures, and speculative-design studies with Public Health Critical Race praxis and intersectionality, we orient the speculative method, rooted in Black feminist futurity, toward three domains: bias in reproductive and clinical artificial intelligence, inequitable policy regimes, and community-engaged intervention design. We conclude that the speculative method is a disciplined expansion of the questions public health research is able to ask. Full article

In the global digital revolution, digital literacy has emerged as a critical competency that influences the academic progress and social integration of international students, as well as significantly impacting their subjective well-being in host countries. This study employed a questionnaire survey among 455 international students in China and used structural equation modeling and STATA to examine the impact of digital literacy on international students’ subjective well-being and its underlying mechanisms. Empirical results revealed that digital literacy had a significant positive direct effect on subjective well-being (β = 0.425, p < 0.001). Psychological resilience mediated this relationship (indirect effect = 0.307, S.E. = 0.046, 95% CI = [0.216, 0.397]), and positive affective engagement also served as a mediator (indirect effect = 0.129, S.E. = 0.053, 95% CI = [0.023, 0.230]). These findings indicate that digital literacy not only directly enhances international students’ well-being but also operates through two indirect pathways: by fostering resilience and by stimulating positive affective experiences in creative learning and community co-construction. This study elevates digital literacy from a “tool skill” to “survival capital” within the antecedent model of Chinese international students’ well-being, offering a new perspective and analytical framework for cross-cultural adaptation research in the digital age. Furthermore, it uncovers the dual pathways through which digital literacy affects international students’ subjective well-being, deepening the understanding of cross-cultural adaptability in the digital era, and carrying significant theoretical value and practical implications. Full article

Previous studies propose methodologies to transform any European curriculum into STEAM methodologies, where, based on curricular analysis, the areas of opportunity most likely to form a STEAM project with a high number of connections can be determined. Recent updates of the STEAM model toward a humanistic framework, STEAM∀H (STEAM for all Humanity), allow us to state the objective of this article: to expand these methodologies by connecting them with the SDGs addressed by each thematic area in the curriculum, where the “H” concept (for all humanity) is determined by the SDGs tackled within the designed project. The methodology proposed in this article consists of 10 phases to analyze the connection with the SDGs. To guarantee the validity of the analysis, the procedure includes an item-coding phase, the evaluation of inter-rater reliability, and the construction of adjacency matrices for network analysis. As a case study to test methodological feasibility, this article analyzes the LOMLOE Primary Education curriculum in the Valencian Community to identify the potential for designing interdisciplinary projects under the STEAM∀H approach and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although LOMLOE prioritizes the STEM model—excluding the arts and humanities—the analysis of 546 items from Science, Mathematics, and Art Education demonstrates that the regulations allow for their integration. After refining the sample into 32 thematic areas, 12 highly interconnected conceptual areas were identified. These conceptual areas are configured as potential ideal generative topics for Project-Based Learning (PBL) linked to the 2030 Agenda, which could foster the development of creativity and social commitment in students as a pedagogical implication. Full article

The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has intensified concerns about academic integrity, student cheating, and the future of assessment in STEM education. This paper argues that AI has not created a STEM assessment crisis; rather, it has exposed longstanding weaknesses that reward answer production, procedural fluency, and information reproduction rather than meaningful understanding, transfer, and application of knowledge. To operationalize this approach, the paper proposes a STEM-focused framework that distinguishes evidence of the disciplinary outcome, the learner’s reasoning process, the critical use and evaluation of AI, and individual understanding. Drawing on educational research and examples from STEM contexts, the paper contends that the central question is not how to prevent students from using AI, but what knowledge, skills, and disciplinary practices educators genuinely value and seek to assess. The paper proposes that AI functions as a litmus test for revealing assessment tasks that can be completed successfully without demonstrating disciplinary understanding. In response, it advocates a shift toward authentic assessment that emphasizes reasoning, creativity, communication, judgment, and the meaningful application of knowledge. Five examples are discussed: laboratory reports, problem solving, design challenges from the UBC Physics Olympics, scientific modelling and data interpretation, and STEM teacher education. Together, these examples illustrate how AI can support learning while authentic assessment focuses on students’ abilities to explain, justify, apply, evaluate, and defend their understanding in complex, meaningful contexts. Full article

The Gospel of John is geographically associated with Judea and Anatolia—regions that, throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods, formed part of the frontier with the Iranian world. Anatolia preserved important Mazdean traditions well into the Common era, while the budding miϑra cult established itself in Judea around the time the Fourth Gospel was actively being elaborated—most notably at Caesarea Maritima, where an early Christian community coexisted with the party responsible for one of the earliest Mithraea (ca. 80 CE). This article reexamines the Johannine Prologue against the backdrop of Mazdean traditions, such as miϑra’s emergence in the Roman world as δημιουργός, the concept of the incarnate mąϑra (“divine utterance”), and, especially, the Mazdean eschatological figure of the final saošiiaṇt (restorer of creation)—notions that were integrated by the Johannine community through a process of interpretatio Iohannica to articulate its Christology. Rather than influences from Mithraism, which was at the time in its infancy, or direct textual dependence on Mazdean sources, the article appeals to a convergence of geographical, archaeological, chronological, theological, and linguistic evidence for a shared religious environment where the Johannine Prologue creatively assimilated a coherent network of Mazdean concepts into a thoroughly Jewish theological framework. Full article

As robots take on a growing role in creative work, an important question is often overlooked: how do we preserve people’s sense of psychological ownership over what they create together with a machine? This study integrates a large-scale scientometric analysis of 817 publications (2015–July 2026) with a PRISMA 2020–guided systematic review of 52 studies on Ownership-Preserving Autonomy in creative Human–Robot Interaction (HRI). Bibliometric mapping (a keyword co-occurrence network built with NetworkX and Louvain community detection, together with publication-trend, citation, author, country, and keyword temporal-intensity statistics computed directly from the corpus) shows a compound annual growth rate of approximately 26.5% over the complete calendar years 2018–2025, as well as a Core HRI and Autonomy thematic cluster that dominates a much smaller Psychological and Ownership cluster, a pattern that is at least partly attributable to the intentionally broad search strategy. The systematic review shows that only 3.8% of the 52 studies (n = 2) report a concrete algorithmic implementation coupled with robotic integration and empirical evaluation, while 96.2% do not meet this specific implementation criterion. Considered alongside converging industrial and HCI evidence on authorship erosion in AI-assisted design, as well as a previously reported ∼20% ownership decline under passive AI use in a single non-embodied creative-writing study, these SLR findings point to a pronounced theory–practice gap: rich conceptual discussion of ownership, agency, and Diminished Creative Agency contrasts sharply with the scarcity of technical implementations, validated evaluation frameworks, and real-world deployments. To help bridge this gap, the paper offers an exploratory positioning of Ownership–Autonomy Adaptive Collaboration (OAAC), a preliminary four-layer conceptual reference model; a set of falsifiable research hypotheses; and a structured research agenda on dynamic scaffolding, negotiated autonomy, and multidimensional evaluation intended to guide future ownership-preserving, human-centric co-creativity research in Industry 5.0. Full article

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping higher education and early-career work, raising questions about how universities can support pedagogically sustainable career readiness. This study examines undergraduate students’ perceptions of AI, automation, entry-level employment, and perceived preparedness for an AI-augmented labor market. Survey data were collected from 153 undergraduate students. The questionnaire examined awareness of AI and automation, perceived risks to traditional entry-level work, anxiety and perceived preparedness regarding post-graduation employment, skill priorities, and desired institutional support. The findings indicate substantial awareness of AI-related change, with many students expecting routine junior tasks such as data entry, basic research, report generation, customer support, and simple coding-related work to be affected. However, confidence in academic preparation was weaker and more uncertain. Students emphasized human-centered capabilities, including critical thinking, creativity, communication, and problem solving, alongside AI literacy and practical exposure to digital tools. The study identifies an awareness-preparedness gap and argues that higher education institutions should strengthen GenAI-era curriculum design, AI-authentic assessment, experiential learning, career guidance, and ethical AI literacy to support perceived preparedness and sustainable career readiness. Full article

This study introduces the concept of contextuality in sustainable livelihood support, shaped by destination characteristics. In cultural tourism, support is most pronounced for human and social capital, reflecting the importance of knowledge, skills, creativity, cultural identity, community participation, and local institutions. In nature-based tourism, support is most pronounced for physical, human, and natural capital, highlighting the importance of infrastructure, accessibility, safety, innovation, adaptability, and environmental conservation. Meanwhile, social capital serves as a vital social investment during times of crisis. The research evaluates five types of capital—human, social, financial, physical, and natural—using the Sustainable Livelihood Framework for Tourism (SLFT) to explore the role of tourism villages in supporting sustainable livelihoods. The study employed a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach. It collected quantitative data from 140 local stakeholders using a 25-item Likert-scale questionnaire and gathered qualitative data through semi-structured interviews with 90 stakeholders to validate the quantitative findings. The study concludes that community-based tourism does not yield uniform livelihood patterns. To achieve sustainable livelihoods, tourism village policies must be formulated contextually, based on local assets, to strengthen community resilience, inclusivity, and sustainability. Full article

This article reviews the evolving understanding of the neurodevelopmental disability of FASD in the forensic context and the criteria for its diagnosis, an issue that is especially pressing for Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. It analyses important legal authorities, emphasising recent case law, dealing with the relationship of FASD to criminal offending and victimisation, including cases relating to fitness for interview, fitness to stand trial, and diminished responsibility, while focussing upon the sentencing of persons with FASD. It particularly draws attention to how the condition has been incorporated into the matrix of factors that affect evaluation of risk, including for young offenders. It discusses culturally informed, trauma-aware measures that are required to inform and guide forensic responses to FASD, so as to maximise effective early intervention, utilise non-carceral sentencing options, and identify creative options for provision of long-term supports for offenders diagnosed with FASD. Full article