by Freya Mizen | Feb 20, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health, Environmental Physiotherapy
Artists and scientists both observe and interpret the world, but they do so through different epistemologies. While these disciplines are distinct, encounters between them can generate new forms of understanding (Zhu & Goyal, 2018). Edwards (2009), a Harvard...
by Shirley Chubb | Feb 17, 2026 | Active Transport, Art and Planetary Health, Pain
The Posthuman Walking Project is a transdisciplinary collaboration of physiotherapy and visual arts academics and persons with experience of living with persistent pain. The project explores the entanglement of human and non-human entities when walking with pain. As...
by Eric Robertson | Feb 12, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
Reconciliation in my art didn’t arrive as a grand revelation. It came as a slow, uncomfortable noticing that I was being pulled in opposite directions and still choosing to stand in the middle. On one side is my clinical life: evidence hierarchies, risk–benefit...
by Eric Robertson | Feb 9, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
In science, we use large datasets to learn things. Single-case studies are placed low on the pyramid of evidence and are valuable, but are nevertheless overlooked in critical decisions, such as when to approve a new medication or develop clinical practice guidelines....
by Eric Robertson | Feb 2, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health, Environmental Philosophies, Environmental Physiotherapy
My artwork is a product of intuition. I am unable to preconceive of an image and make art reliably. It has to come from a place I cannot speak to directly. It has to come in its own time. This facet of my work comes from somewhere different than the part of my brain I...
by Freya Mizen | Jan 21, 2026 | Art and Planetary Health
Art remains a threatened and undervalued aspect of the scientific world, with many failing to appreciate its crucial role in communicating and promoting research and ideas. The moment where art and science become interdependent underscores the growing importance of...
