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Over two days (with an optional third day workshop class) artists, health professionals and academics from around the world will gather at The University of Northampton to explore developments in the way colour is used for health and well-being.
COLOUR my well-being is a conference focused on the interactive relationships of Arts and Health.
Target audience
This conference will be of particular interest to:
Researchers and practitioners, allied health professionals, creative, alternative and complimentary therapists, people working in health and social care, creative media, design and education.
Presenters and delegates are encouraged from a range of interests which may include, but is not limited to, the following:
Therapy
- Colour use in trauma and illness with children, elderly or the dying
- Colour use in criminal rehabilitation
- Physiology, perception, cognition, behavioural studies
- Colour assessments/ psychophysical states – uses of the Lüscher colour test
- Expressive therapy/ Art therapy – colour use, expression & transformational qualities
- Occupational therapy applications
Design
- Environmental specialists and architects - décor, harmony, mental health
- Sound & light installations for wellbeing and mood alteration
- Colour dyes, paints, oils – health risks – toxins
Living with or without colour
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Colour, sound & music – colour as metaphor
- Synaesthesia, dyslexia, colour vision deficiency
- Clothing – reflection of mood/health/uniforms for health professions
- Cultural – colour & health variations, perception, symbolism & ritual
- Theatre, ritual & shamanism
- Instruments & implements – light treatments & colour torches
- Spiritual & paranormal – mandalas and the sub-conscious, aura photography/video
Abstracts
Abstracts for papers, posters and workshops are invited from a variety of disciplines and interests. We welcome contributions of ongoing and completed research, experiential studies, narratives and examples of best practice that inform and contribute to the evidence base regarding how Health and Arts interact with each other, and how this could be used in the future to enhance the field.
More information is available on abstract submission.
Keynote speakers
Keynote speakers so far include Neil Harbisson and Helen Carruthers. Read more about the keynote speakers.
Conference fees
- Early Bird £195 (before 1 February 2012)
- Standard £235
- Students/unwaged £75
- Day rate £120*
- Student Day rate £40*
- Optional workshop class £85 (includes dinner the evening before and lunch)
(*day only rates exclude evening dinner)
Conference fee includes lunches both days and the conference dinner Thursday evening. For those electing to do the Saturday workshop class your Friday dinner and Saturday lunch is included in your workshop class fee. Additional evening dinner tickets may be ordered in advance at a cost of £25 per person. All delegates receive a 12 month free subscription to the Journal of Applied Arts & Health.