Creative Brain Week 2024
By bringing together leading scientists, health practitioners, and researchers in lively discussion and debate, Creative Brain Week was designed to strengthen and propagate the significance of the arts on health and wellbeing.
Date
4 – 9 March 2024
Location
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Trinity College Dublin
Creative Brain Week returns for 2024
Dublin Gazette
Creative Brain Week at Trinity
The Lab was proud to partner with Creative Brain Week 2024 – a series of online and in-person events which explored and celebrated how brain science and creativity collide to seed new ideas in social development, technology, entrepreneurship, wellbeing, and physical, mental, and brain health through life.
See Lab Founding Co-Director Christopher Bailey interviewed on Irish television below:
Creative Brain Week 2024 was a Global Brain Health Institute innovation at Trinity College Dublin, supported by the Atlantic Institute, presented in association with the Lab.
March 4th | Creative Brain Week 2024 Opening Session
Creative Brain Week 2024 opened on 4 March with a retrospective on 2023 and a look ahead, including the session Who is in the Room?, featuring Atlantic Fellows and the authors of the Lab–Lancet global series on the health benefits of the arts, with Dr Nisha Sajnani (Founding Co-Director, JAHL), Stephen Stapleton (Founding Co-Director, JAHL), and Jill Sonke (steering committee member, JAHL, and Director of National Impact and Research, One Nation/One Project).
March 5th | Theme of Day: Attention
The Lab and Lancet authors hosted the panel discussion Collaboration and Connection, with Dr Nils Fietje (Founding Co-Director, JAHL), Nisha Sajnani (Founding Co-Director, JAHL), Jill Sonke (steering committee member, JAHL, and Director of National Impact and Research, One Nation/One Project), Yazmany Arboleda (artist), Michael Tan Koon Boon (arts-health practitioner), and Martina de Wittte (postdoctoral researcher, University of Amsterdam).
March 6th | Theme of Day: Connection
The day started with a welcome, which included a contribution from Dr Agustín Ibáñez (affiliated researcher, JAHL). Further conversations included delving into human attention with contributions from Susan Magsamen (steering committee member, JAHL).
March 7th | Theme of Day: Love
On the last day of Creative Brain Week 2024, Christopher Bailey (Founding Co-Director, JAHL) spoke at the Made from Love session after a tour around Ireland for Creative Brain Week. By visiting local programmes where creativity and science combine for improved care, Christopher Bailey reflected on how local experience connects with global issues.
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Participants
Christopher Bailey
Lab Co-Director
Nils Fietje
Lab Co-Director
Dr. Nisha Sajnani
Lab Co-Director
Jill Sonke, PhD
Director of Research Initiatives
Yazmany Arboleda
Artist
Michael Tan Koon Boon
Arts-health practitioner
Martina de Wittte
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Melbourne and University of Amsterdam
Stephen Stapleton
Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab
Dr Linda Doyle
Provost, Trinity College Dublin
Dominic Campbell
Co-Founder, Creative Aging International
Pier Luigi Sacco
Professor of Economics
Susan Magsamen
Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics
Agustin Ibáñez, PhD
Director of the Latin American Brain Health Institute
Tessa Brinza
Research Coordinator, Jameel Arts & Health Lab