Konferenser och symposier Arts for Health: Den 2:a nordisk-baltiska konferensen om konst i sjukhusmiljöer
2026-04-21 Lägg till i iCal
Vi bjuder in vårdpersonal, konst- och kulturspecialister samt personer som arbetar i och med sjukhusmiljöer i de baltiska och nordiska länderna att delta i seminariet Arts for Health, som äger rum den 20–21 april 2026 på Nya Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset (NKS) i Stockholm, Sverige. Obs! Evanemanget hölls på engelska.
Sjukhus har blivit viktiga platser för konstnärliga gestaltningar, och närvaron av konst spelar en betydande roll för hälsa och välbefinnande hos patienter, anhöriga och vårdpersonal. Det första nordisk-baltiska seminariet om konst i sjukhusmiljöer hölls den 18–20 november 2024. Detta blir det andra mötet i samma seminarieserie.
Målet med seminariet är att dela kunskap om konst i sjukhusmiljöer samt att stärka och utveckla nätverket för yrkesverksamma som arbetar i skärningspunkten mellan vård och konst i de nordiska och baltiska länderna. Seminariets språk är engelska.
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Preliminary program
Monday April 20 at Sune Bergström lecture hall; NKS
10.00 – 13.00 Plenary session
Marcel W. Foster is an American public health professional, arts evaluator, choreographer, and researcher specializing in arts and health integration.He co-founded and directs Performance Hypothesis, LLC, serves as a Research & Evaluation Associate at NYU's Jameel Arts & Health Lab and teaches as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine.Foster has developed evaluation methodologies for assessing the impact of arts on health outcomes, including the Hospital Mural Evaluation and the Healing Arts Atlanta initiative addressing racism as a public health crisis. His research has been published in Qualitative Health Research and The American Journal of Primatology.Foster holds an MPH from Emory University[ and dual bachelor's degrees in Anthropology and Theater from the University of Minnesota, combining formal public health training with arts expertise to create innovative evaluation approaches.
Max Lijefors, Lund, Mats Lekander, Karolinska Institutet, Birgit Bundsen, Copenhagen
Magdalena Åberg, Helsinki
13.00 Cold lunch on site
14.00 – 15.30 Three Break out sessions
- I Format and scope of Nordic collaboration
- II Future research topics, examples
- III Patients and Artists
16.00 – 17.30 Plenary lectures
16.00 Daisy Fancourt, London (on Video)
Why arts are an overlooked health behaviour: insight from epidemiological, behavioural and economic research
Daisy Fancourt is Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at University College London where she heads the Social Biobehavioural Research Group, Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Arts and Health and UNESCO Chair in Arts & Global Health. She has published 300 scientific papers, received over £37m in research funding, and won over two dozen academic prizes. She is a multi-award-winning science communicator and has been named a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and BBC New Generation Thinker. Daisy is listed as one of the most highly cited scientists in the world. She is author of the Sunday Times bestseller Art Cure, which is long-listed for the international Women’s Prize for non-fiction.
Arts Lab, Stefan Karlsson Sahlgrenska. Psychiatry, Gothenburg; Ersta Art project, Amelie Edlund, Kognitionsenheten, Ersta, Stockholm
18.00 Visit to the CELL exhibition, get together; drink and snacks.
Tuesday April 21
Eva and Georg Klein lecture Hall, Biomedicum, Solna väg 9, Karolinska Institutet
9.00 Lectures
Artists-in-residence: An Emerging Concept in Medicine
Moderator: Dr Jonas Nordquist
- Ms. Cecilia Hillström, Gallerist
- Prof. Ylva Söderfeldt, Centre for Humanities in Medicine, Uppsala University
- Ms. Ebba Bohlin, Artist-in-residence, Karolinska Institutet
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Guided tours at NKS art project
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Art Museum Visit
16.00 End of meeting
Registration
The event is free of charge, but you need to register in advance. Participants will however have to cover travel and accommodation. You can already register now and please do so no later than March 31 2026. Please use the link below to register already now – welcome!
Register online here for the event
Accomodation
A block of rooms have been reserved for two nights, April 19-20 and 20-21 at the Elite Hotel Carolina Tower, Eugeniavägen 6,very conveniently just opposite to the NKS hospital main entrance where the venue of the first day is located. The price is 1501 SEK/night (appr 132 €s) and includes breakfast. If you wish to reserve rooms from this block send the name of guest(s) and the dates required (19-20/4 and/or 20-21/4) and if you require a single or double room to:
ingemar.ernberg@ki.se
Presentations
If you also would like to give a very short presentation of your activities in this field also send a five sentence summary to Ingemar.ernberg@ki.se latest February 28.
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Organisationskommitté
Center for Culture, Cognition and Health, Karolinska Institutet
Ytterligare information
Giulia Gaudenzi, universitetslektor, Karolinska Institutet
giulia.gaudenzi@ki.se
Ingemar Ernberg, seniorprofessor
Ingemar.ernberg@ki.se
+46 70 546 76 36
John Sennett PhD student, Webbadministrator