HeArtS – A platform for sustainable health at KMH
KMH is a driving force in a European research project, ARTHEWE, and is building within the project building a sustainable health platform called Health & Arts & Sustainability (HeArtS) for students, teachers and researchers within KMH's artistic and music education programs.
Project coordinator: Sanna Merisalo, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Project managers at KMH: Prof. Eva Bojner Horwitz and senior lecturer David Thyrén
Co-applicants: KMH together with University of West Attica in Greece, King's College London in Great Britain and Trinity College Dublin/Global Brain Health Institute in Ireland.
Funder: Erasmus+
Project period: 2020-2023
The role of music for sustainable health
Excellence in music at KMH demonstrates the importance of the interaction between art and science for the development of the future sustainable health of students, teachers and researchers. The research within HeArtS generates groundbreaking methods for health development that have not been used so far and that show that the combination of music and other artistic modalities helps to transform our mindsets in a direction towards a more conscious sustainable healthy quality of life, in line with UN's Agenda 2030.
Inom ARTHEWE-projektet utvärderas mångformiga pedagogiska tillvägagångssätt och konstbaserade metoder där konstens roll för hälsoutveckling uppmärksammas. Arbetet genererar online- och kontaktinlärning, där tvärprofessionella hälsometoder inom och genom konst- och musikområdet utvecklas. Projektet definierar även kärnkompetenser hos de yrkesverksamma för att kunna arbeta hållbart nationellt och internationellt inom området konst och musik.
Within the ARTHEWE project, diverse educational approaches and art-based methods are evaluated where the role of art in health development is highlighted. The work generates online and face-to-face learning, where interprofessional health approaches within and through the field of art and music are developed. The project also defines core competencies of the professionals to be able to work sustainably nationally and internationally in the field of art and music.
The content of the study modules in HeArtS developed by KMH in the ARTHEWE project include, among other things:
- Promoting wellness and health through creative approaches in educational programs.
- Social sustainability and personal sustainable professional development.
- Metahealth skills for musicians in working life.
- Art-based and embodied practices that strengthen health.
- Understanding of concepts of health and well-being from a performative and aesthetic point of view.
