Laurens Landeweerd (1976) studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and Culture&Science at Maastricht University. He wrote his PhD thesis in the field of medical ethics, and is currently working on a second thesis on the notion of time in physics, the life sciences and the neurosciences. Landeweerd currently works for the Institute of Science in Society at Radboud University's Faculty of Science, as well iArts, the interdisciplinary bachelor of the Maastricht Institute of Arts. For both positions, he focuses on the genres of the imagination in relation to science and technology. In a project line guided by Maastricht-based artist Juul Sadee and Laurens Landeweerd, the first year students of iArts create an exposition each year for museum dr Josef Guislain in Ghent. This museum visualises insanity in thematic exhibitions, on digital platforms. The museum hosts both public and educational activities on psychiatry, its history, on outsider art, etc. The museum thus creates platforms to discuss mental pathologies in their societal context. Landeweerd will provide for an introductory lecture on his work in this relation between psychiatry, art and philosophy.

Ellen Dekker is an art therapist, teacher and artist who lives in Zutphen. After studying Design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, she worked for 14 years as an art director and set designer for Dutch television. In 2000 she got her license as an Art therapist, and started her own practice ‘De Ontdekking’, where she works with individuals and groups young and old with all kinds of guiding questions. Ellen also teaches Art Therapy. She did so for 10 years at the Instituut voor Klank en Vorm in Zutphen and now since 7 years for Civas in Haarlem. As an artist she had several expositions of her paintings in Germany and the Netherlands.

picture made by Sam Shayne

Mark Kinet is a psychiatrist and chief editor of the series Psychoanalytisch Actueel. He wrote or edited over 25, including Psychologie van de kunst. Een abecedarium His website: www.markkinet.be

Monica is a social anthropologist with 30 years of research experience among forest peoples in Borneo and is also a qualified forest bathing guide certified by the ANFT (Association of Nature and Forest Therapy). She leads forest bathing in Hainault Forest, Epping Forest, the Abruzzo mountains in Italy and the Kelabit Highlands in Borneo.