Artistic Creation for Infancy: from the observation of its impact to the construction of new scientific paradigms in early infancy

Funding: VLAC – Vlaams Academish Centrum, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Support: Theatrical Music Company

Coordination: Gerrit Loots (Vrije University) and Helena Rodrigues (FCSH-UNL).

Participating researcher: Martine Van Puyvelde

Description: This project aimed to:

  • the creation and application of an artistic-therapeutic program mediated by music at the Zoertsel psychiatric hospital for babies and mothers with postnatal depression;
  • initiate the reflection and conception of observation records of children between 0-24 months participating in artistic creations directed at childhood.