Visual & Material Lab at “Creative-Critical”, Amsterdam

May 12, 2025

Visual and Material Lab Lead Fiona Johnstone presented a paper on “Critical Interlopers: Artists as Researchers in the Health Humanities” at the symposium “Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities” at Perdu, Amsterdam in May 2025. Convened by Hannah van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and team, the symposium is one of a number of activities organised by the OSL-funded research incubator ‘Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities’ which brings together researchers working in the fields of literary studies, creative writing, disability studies, nursing and narrative medicine to form a transdisciplinary and interuniversity research group. 

The full conference programme is available here: https://www.oslit.nl/symposium-creative-critical-approaches-to-the-health-humanities/

The Visual and Material Lab

The Visual and Material Lab

The Visual & Material Lab looks to the questions, methods and alternative perspectives on health and wellbeing that are generated when visual and material culture is taken as a starting point.

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