Wednesday 8 July 2026
11:00am–3:00pm
University of Westminster Harrow Campus & Northwick Park Hospital
RSVP: Free to attend. Please register here
I’m delighted to be taking part in the Creative Health Study Day, organised by the Arts, Communication and Culture Research Community at the University of Westminster as part of the Practices for Change: Artistic Research in Action series.
I’ll be joining artist Dr Youngsook Choi for a day bringing together clinicians, artists, curators, researchers, and healthcare professionals to explore how artistic research and creative practice can contribute to spaces of care, grief, and encounter within hospital settings.
The day begins with Beneath Our Feet, a walking tour through the wards and gardens of Northwick Park Hospital led by Youngsook Choi. Through sensory approaches, deep listening, mapping, and collective reflection, participants will be invited to attend closely to the hospital environment and the relationships, experiences, and questions that emerge within it. The walk will be followed by a collaborative workshop exploring different forms of expression, reflection, and enquiry through collective creative practice.
After lunch, I’ll be facilitating an extended conversation exploring how creative health approaches can inform future projects and partnerships. Together we’ll reflect on the developing collaboration between London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and the Westminster School of Arts, a relationship initiated through Brent Biennial 2025, and consider how artistic methodologies can contribute to the design and development of healthcare spaces, as well as future collaborations between artists, researchers, and healthcare professionals.
I’m very much looking forward to sharing the day with Youngsook and everyone joining us.
All That Burnt All That Glow (2025), water divination performance, as part of Brent Biennial 2025, curated by Annie Jael Kwan. Photo by Jason Garcia.
About Dr Youngsook Choi
Dr Youngsook Choi is an artist and eco-grief advocate whose socially engaged, site-specific practice explores intimate aesthetics of solidarity, postulating feeling and compassion as fundamental ways of knowing. Ecological grief is central to her work, mobilising collective witnessing as a socio-political autopsy and building eco-literacy as an emergent pedagogy. Embedding collective imagination into her artistic practice, Youngsook founded the transnational eco-grief council Foreshadowing and co-founded the practice-based research collective Decolonising Botany.
About the Event
The Creative Health Study Day is organised by the Arts, Communication and Culture (ACC) Research Community at the University of Westminster. The community takes an interdisciplinary, creative, and speculative approach to the arts in response to pressing contemporary and future challenges, exploring how artistic practice can shape new possibilities for social and cultural change.
The study day also connects with Westminster’s Creative Health Working Group, jointly convened through the Arts, Communication and Culture Research Community and the Health Innovation and Wellbeing Research Community.
Annie Jael Kwan 