Description: How can embodied and arts-based practices deepen understanding, connection, and creativity in integrative research? This dialogue brings together Integration and Implementation Insights (i2Insights) contributors whose work explores how creative and embodied methods open new ways of knowing and collaborating across disciplines.

Drawing on their i2Insights posts, “Not just in our heads: Embodied and creative practices for creating connection” and “Using the arts to flip understanding: An arts intervention for non-arts researchers,” Jillian Student, knowledge integrator and researcher at Wageningen University and Research, and Veronica Dittman Stanich, Research Program Manager for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), will share brief reflections inspired by their work and experiences with embodied and arts-based approaches in integrative research.

They’ll then engage in an open, curiosity-driven dialogue that invites both speakers and attendees to explore how these practices can transform engagement with complex societal and environmental challenges. This session celebrates i2Insights’ 10th anniversary, highlighting enduring “gold nuggets” of knowledge that continue to shape how we collaborate to address complex problems.

Speakers:

• Jillian Student - Wageningen University and Research,

• Veronica Dittman Stanich - Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru)

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