During the symposium "The Forest School: op het kruispunt van drama, neurodivergentie en psycho-educatie", theatre maker Thomas Janssens brings together artists, researchers and care professionals around the following questions:
- How can art, health and education reinforce one another?
- What role can artistic research play in understanding neurodiversity?
- What does inclusion mean as both an artistic and scientific experiment?
PROGRAMME
10:30 – Reception
11:00 – Welcome
11:15 – Invited Talk: Emma Asselman (PhD student at the Explora research group, FPPW, UGent) on her research "Krachtbronnen en sterktes bij mensen met autisme"
11:45 – Invited Talk: Liene Van den Brande (medical doctor in training to become a child and adolescent psychiatrist) on psycho-education for people with autism
12:15 – Lunch + knowledge sharing table (feel free to bring flyers, publicaties or other materiaal)
13:00 – Invited Talk: Dr. Mieke Cardol (Lecturer in Disability Studies, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) on inclusive collaboration in theatre
13:30 – Invited Talk: Dr. Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Assistant Professor of Critical Disability Studies, University of Amsterdam) on creators with autism as artists and researchers
14:00 – Theatrical intervention (The Forest School)
14:30 – Coffee break
14:45 – Panel discussion: Stefan Perceval (artistic director Het Gevolg), Anna Püschel (artist and researcher, LUCA) and Prof. Dr. Geert Van Hove (Professor of Disability Studies, Ghent University), joined by the four invited speakers
15:45 – Q&A
Organisation
Thomas Janssens in collaboration with CORPoREAL (Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts) & ST_ART HeArts cluster of Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (UAntwerpen)
Image: (c) Ivan Baetens