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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,010 Views
12 Pages

Over time, the view that creativity is embodied has emerged. In order to explore if visual creativity is supported by embodied mechanisms, the simulation approach was used as a framework of reference. The idea that visual creativity relies on mental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,808 Views
18 Pages

23 February 2023

Drawing on embodied cognition theory, this study treated embodied engagement as an antecedent to memorable tourism experiences. Grounded theory and content analysis methods were used to construct the formation mechanism model of memorable tourism exp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,922 Views
31 Pages

7 July 2025

A significant development in pedagogical strategies which make use of the principles of embodied cognition can be found within the implementation of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) into art and design education. This theoretical study investigates ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,248 Views
12 Pages

Reframing Creative Teaching in Secondary Music Teacher Education

  • Sabine Chatelain,
  • Karine Barman,
  • Carlos Lage-Gómez and
  • Marcelle Moor

18 March 2024

According to research about creativity in education, creativity can be considered an ability that can be fostered through specific teaching strategies. Consequently, future secondary music teachers should be equipped with the knowledge to develop stu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
394 Views
13 Pages

Neuroscience-Informed Creative Group Therapy for Processing Trauma and Developing Resilience During Wartime

  • Sharon Vaisvaser,
  • Yifat Shalem-Zafari,
  • Neta Ram-Vlasov and
  • Liat Shamri-Zeevi

25 February 2026

Traumatic experiences can disrupt one’s sense of safety, self-efficacy, and relationships. Prolonged stress may lead to anxiety, depression, and diminished agency. The embodied, subjective manifestations of trauma call for personalized therapeu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,453 Views
26 Pages

As an artificial space extended from the physical environment, the virtual environment (VE) provides more possibilities for humans to work and be entertained with less physical restrictions. Benefiting from anonymity, one of the important features of...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
344 Views
33 Pages

Recreational dance offers significant psychological well-being potential. However, traditional instruction emphasizes technique while limiting attention to nervous system development and embodied meaning-making. Despite empirical support for polyvaga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,460 Views
22 Pages

Performing for Better Communication: Creativity, Cognitive-Emotional Skills and Embodied Language in Primary Schools

  • Sandrine Eschenauer,
  • Raphaële Tsao,
  • Thierry Legou,
  • Marion Tellier,
  • Carine André,
  • Isabelle Brugnoli,
  • Anne Tortel and
  • Aurélie Pasquier

While the diversity and complexity of the links between creativity and emotional skills as well as their effects on cognitive processes are now established, few approaches to implementing them in schools have been evaluated. Within the framework of t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,070 Views
17 Pages

12 February 2018

Creation is an important part of many interventions in creative arts therapies (art, music, dance, and drama therapy). This active part of art-making in arts therapies has not yet been closely investigated. The present study commits to this field of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,719 Views
21 Pages

Practices of creativity and compliance intersect in interaction when directing local dances remotely for people living with dementia and their carers in institutional settings. This ethnomethodological study focused on how artistic mechanisms are und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
592 Views
21 Pages

2 February 2026

There has been a surge in interest in and implementation of motion capture (MoCap)-based lessons in animation, creative education, and performance training, leading to an increasing number of studies on this topic. While recent studies have summarize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,102 Views
10 Pages

Psychological research has shown that empathy and compassion can be developed through mediation, simulation and embodiment techniques that foster benevolence and kindness, attributes and actions that play a major role in increasing subjective feeling...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
16,895 Views
11 Pages

17 October 2017

One of the frequently overlooked psychosocial problems of refugees is the phenomenon of homesickness. Being forced into exile and unable to return home may cause natural feelings of nostalgia but may also result in emotional, cognitive, behavioral an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,857 Views
14 Pages

24 August 2021

This article presents an exploratory and interpretative study on the development of self-reflection and self-knowledge in university teachers by an embodied experience. Dance Movement Therapy and Body–Mind Centering share the fundamentals of the para...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,557 Views
19 Pages

Choreographing Well-Being: The Predictive Role of Self-Compassion on Life Satisfaction—A Therapeutic-Based Art Pedagogy Perspective in Recreational Dance

  • Aglaia Zafeiroudi,
  • Thomas Karagiorgos,
  • Ioannis Tsartsapakis,
  • Gerasimos V. Grivas,
  • Charilaos Kouthouris and
  • Dimitrios Goulimaris

8 July 2025

Dance encompasses physical, emotional, and social elements, creating a dynamic platform for the exploration of well-being. As a therapeutic approach, dance movement further applies these dimensions to enhance emotional resilience, foster mindfulness,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
321 Views
20 Pages

Everyday Peace Power: Girl Drummers of Gira Ingoma in Rwanda

  • Ananda Breed,
  • Odile Gakire Katese,
  • Sarah Huxley and
  • Ariane Zaytzeff

18 February 2026

This article presents an arts-based and polyvocal account of Gira Ingoma (One Drum per Girl), a women- and girl-led cultural initiative in Rwanda that reconstructs drumming, warrior dance, and self-praise poetry to advance gender equality and contrib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,027 Views
14 Pages

4 March 2025

This essay explores embodiment and its realization in spiritual and artistic practices. By analyzing the parallels between artists seeking to integrate their faith with their creative practice and the broader pursuit of an embodied spiritual life, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
27,198 Views
20 Pages

The Creativity Diamond—A Framework to Aid Creativity

  • Peter Childs,
  • Ji Han,
  • Liuqing Chen,
  • Pingfei Jiang,
  • Pan Wang,
  • Dongmyung Park,
  • Yuan Yin,
  • Elena Dieckmann and
  • Ignacio Vilanova

There are many facets to creativity, and the topic has a profound impact on society. Substantial and sustained study on creativity has been undertaken, and much is now known about the fundamentals and how creativity can be augmented. To draw these el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
10,826 Views
37 Pages

Drawing on a micro-phenomenological paradigm, we discuss Contact Improvisation (CI), where dancers explore potentials of intercorporeal weight sharing, kinesthesia, touch, and momentum. Our aim is to typologically discuss creativity related skills an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,648 Views
24 Pages

20 June 2025

This study presents a novel pedagogical model for architectural education that integrates an extended-reality (XR) enhanced learning environment with embodied cognitive approaches. Addressing the limited application of technology-driven embodied expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
656 Views
13 Pages

10 January 2026

In his innovative and creative attempt to reconcile empiricism and religion, William James made the case for finite theism and a pluralistic conception of the cosmos involving overlapping minds of several scales. In doing so, James also cautioned aga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,235 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping creative practices, yet many systems rely on traditional interfaces, limiting intuitive and embodied engagement. This study presents a qualitative observational analysis of participant interactions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,514 Views
14 Pages

16 July 2023

How is writing a part of creatively understanding ourselves, research questions, data, and theory? Writing is a critical form of connecting concepts, exploring data, and weaving knowledge in qualitative research. In other words, writing is integral t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,028 Views
14 Pages

16 August 2021

In the reinscribing of white supremacy in the United States, the contemporary university as a place of exclusion presents a problem of religion. Approaching religion as “the search for depth” and addressing the “techno-myths” of betterment, longevity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,662 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2024

The aim of this paper is to discuss how young Latinx men living in Australia negotiate, embody, and complicate existing dominant and racialized masculinities. Queer and feminist theories are used to explore how Latinx men negotiate and embody masculi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
119 Citations
19,058 Views
24 Pages

Under the new normal, the economic development mode and growth momentum of China has brought about fundamental changes, which means that the development of enterprises has gradually shifted from being factor-and investment-driven to being innovation-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,423 Views
17 Pages

9 September 2021

Prison theatre practitioners and scholars often describe the sense of imaginative freedom or “escape” that theatre and drama can facilitate for incarcerated actors, in contrast to the strict regimes of the institution. Despite this, the concept of fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,788 Views
16 Pages

23 May 2019

This paper illuminates the potential of diversely embodied sporting cultures to challenge ableism, the ideology of ability. Ableism constructs the able body as conditional to a life worth living, thus devaluing all those perceived as ‘dis&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,975 Views
23 Pages

Crafting Life Stories in Photocollage: An Online Creative Art-Based Intervention for Older Adults

  • Shoshi Keisari,
  • Silvia Piol,
  • Talia Elkarif,
  • Giada Mola and
  • Ines Testoni

21 December 2021

Creative arts therapies (CAT) provide a safe and creative environment for older adults to process life experiences and maintain personal growth while aging. There is a growing need to make creative arts therapies more accessible to the aging populati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,320 Views
32 Pages

Adapting the Baldrige Framework for Sustainable Creative Education: Urban Design, Architecture, Art, and Design Programs

  • Kittichai Kasemsarn,
  • Ukrit Wannaphapa,
  • Antika Sawadsri,
  • Amorn Kritsanaphan,
  • Rittirong Chutapruttikorn and
  • Farnaz Nickpour

23 September 2025

Two critical research problems emerge in creative education quality management: the framework misalignment problem, where business-oriented performance metrics inadequately assess design creativity and innovation, and the sustainability integration g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Views
27 Pages

16 March 2026

The ACE-funded project Clay and Augmented Reality (CAR) explored how the combination of tactile and digital media might activate embodied memory, foster art expression, and stimulate new forms of creative learning. The project investigated memory rec...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,584 Views
17 Pages

30 August 2017

Buskers—street performers—evince the creative tactics of self-conscious agents who are both produced by and productive of the social and material conditions within which they carry out their practices. In this article, I discuss my ethnographic resea...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,322 Views
17 Pages

6 November 2025

The emergence of STEAM education, which integrates the Arts into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), reflects a growing recognition of the need to develop both technical proficiency and creative capacity in learners. This shift...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,134 Views
31 Pages

14 November 2025

This article was born from an artistic collaboration between a Sámi textile artist and me as a composer. At the heart of our work, Spirit Land/Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat, three woven triptychs inspired by Sámi cosmology, met ne...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,865 Views
18 Pages

14 August 2025

Since the turn of the 21st century, urban studies and planning research has examined the strategic role of artists, arts organizations, and cultural activity as local and regional economic development catalysts. This article shifts the spotlight from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,356 Views
23 Pages

17 July 2020

This article examines two ambitious enactments of the Rama story or Rāmāyaṇa, side by side: the 17th-century painted Mewar Rāmāyaṇa and Vālmīki’s epic poem (ca. 750–500 BCE). Through a formal analysis of two crucial episodes of the tale,...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,330 Views
23 Pages

25 November 2025

This perspective advances a psychoanalytic—embodiment account of the “libido of generativity” (LoG)—future-oriented reorganization of erotic desire that links embodied arousal with caregiving, legacy, and shared projects. We d...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
21 Citations
25,794 Views
28 Pages

31 May 2024

Many studies on memory emphasize the material substrate and mechanisms by which data can be stored and reliably read out. Here, I focus on complementary aspects: the need for agents to dynamically reinterpret and modify memories to suit their ever-ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,934 Views
17 Pages

14 December 2020

North American larping (live-action roleplaying) is a collaborative performance that encourages critical and creative engagement with cooperative, improvisational narratives. Nevertheless, larping often relies on problematic engagements with race and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,054 Views
15 Pages

31 March 2020

Using available empirical data of Oromo Orature, particularly folksongs, obtained from the field through interview and observation in Oromia, central Ethiopia, in 2009 and 2010, and other sources in print, this study has two objectives to tackle. Fir...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,338 Views
22 Pages

Motion capture (MoCap) is increasingly recognized as a powerful multimodal immersive learning technology, providing embodied interaction and real-time motion visualization that enrich educational experiences. Although MoCap is gaining prominence with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,209 Views
22 Pages

26 February 2024

This article explores the incongruous results of creativity and risk-taking within art practice and everyday life as encountered through the photographic image. The impetus for this study was a humorous experience that took place during health and sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
553 Views
25 Pages

Balancing Cultural Values and Energy Transition: A Multi-Criteria Approach Inspired by the New European Bauhaus

  • Stefania De Medici,
  • Giuseppe Cataldi,
  • Vincenzo Costanzo and
  • Maria Rosaria Vitale

16 December 2025

The energy efficiency of historic buildings is the focus of activities aimed at developing replicable methodologies for implementing innovative technological solutions. In line with this priority, the Sicilian Region has launched a project for the en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,696 Views
32 Pages

Composing coherent and structured music is one of the main challenges in symbolic music generation. Our research aims to propose a user-centric framework design that promotes a collaborative environment between users and knowledge agents. The primary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,028 Views
28 Pages

5 April 2024

As a witness to history, industrial heritage embodies the cultural, technological, and economic values of a particular era. Transforming it into a cultural and creative park can imbue new functions and vitality, supporting and promoting sustainable u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,516 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2019

As a response to the challenges that visual communication, popularly used in environmental communications, poses for more embodied engagements with climate change, this article focuses upon the neglected role of sound within environmental and climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,998 Views
12 Pages

11 February 2022

This essay traces out the importance of the poetic and creative use of language to Merleau-Ponty’s ontology. Why Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment inevitably had to turn towards a poetic use of language and to see the overlap be...

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