Touched And Moved By Arts Introduction to a Transdisciplinary Discourse on Human Experience

Abstract

She focuses her research on critical artistic and arts-based practices and research in questions of diversity, disability studies, social justice and critical animal studies. She is a World Councilor of InSEA (International Society for Education Through Art), the founder of the International Disability Studies, Arts and Education (DSAE) conference, and the founder of Nordic Visual Studies and Art Education (NoVA) master's program. She is the author and editor of six books, and editor of journals Research in Arts and Education (principle editor) and The International Journal of Education through Art (editor).Heidi Fast is an artist-researcher and singer with MA in live art and performance studies. Fast is currently finalizing her artistic doctoral research on the transformational potential of non-verbal affective communication, in Aalto University. Fast works in a multidisciplinary research project, called "Experiential Demarcation: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into the Affective Foundations of Interaction" (led by J. Taipale, University of Jyväskylä). Her doctoral research is actualized in co-operation with Helsinki University Central Hospital of Psychiatry. The themes of Fast´s artistic research are imminently connected with art working, that involves wide projects and series of artworks, such as Hospital Symphonies (2015-2019), which was actualized to the hospital space, concert hall and radio.

Thematic issue on Independence of Art and Science

“…Interdisciplinary and, more recently, transdisciplinary collaborations are sometimes understood as the most prospective solutions to solve contemporary world's problems that are typically not discipline-based. The diverse backgrounds of researchers allow potentiality for convergent research (Kallio-Tavin, Fast, Heimonen, Pusa & Hari, 2021). As Riitta Hari (ALLEA, 2021) says, "most important problems don't need to come in packages that feed just one discipline, and that is why we have to convert across disciplines" (1:05).…”