Creative Brain Week 2024 – 4-9th March 2024 – online and in person events which explored and celebrated how brain science and creativity collide to seed new ideas in social development, technology, entrepreneurship, wellbeing and physical, mental and brain health across the life cycle. This annual pioneering event illustrated innovation at the intersection of arts and brain science, including creative approaches to health.

This year’s theme was Attention, Connection and Love and the videos of each session are available through the daily tabs below.

We explored the above themes through arts, neuroscience, and their application:

  • Attention, how does it work, what do people pay attention to, what happens as attention changes?
  • Connection, how are people connected and what to? What connections do people ignore and can connections be nurtured?
  • Love (and when it isn’t enough)—how do neuroscientists and artists understand love, and is love enough to build global systems of care?

In person events took place once again in the Science Gallery (Naughton Institute), Trinity College Dublin.  Events were free, but due to space limitations, both online and in person events were ticketed.

Events

Monday
March 4th

Opening Session

Celebrating activity inspired by or developing from last year’s event, and detailing the week ahead.

Tuesday
March 5th

Attention

How does it work? What do people pay attention to? What happens as attention changes?

Wednesday
March 6th

Connection

How are people connected and what to? What connections do people ignore and can connections be nurtured?

Thursday
March 7th

Love

How do neuroscientists and artists understand love, and is love enough to build global systems of care?

Monday – Saturday
March 4th – 9th

Creative & Associate Programme

Music, performance, visual art exhibitions, interventions and installations demonstrated the creative brain in action.

March to June – Various Dates

Satellites

We are joined by colleagues from Australia, Botswana, Egypt and India who are leading inaugural Creative Brain Weeks in their own countries in 2024.

Creative Brain Week is

a Global Brain Health Institute innovation

at Trinity College Dublin,

presented in association with 

the Jameel Arts & Health Lab,

in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) 

and with support from Creative Ireland

and the Atlantic Institute.

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