Arts, Aesthetics and Existential Resilience

Education facts

Code: KOVF10

<p>Existential resilience is about our wired-in ability to create and experience meaning, beauty and connection also in times of crisis and hardship. The course will give you theoretical understanding and practical skills relating to how arts and aesthetics can be a source of existential resilience.</p><p>The course is interdisciplinary and research-based, combining perspectives from the humanities with findings from medical and sustainability research. The course covers topics such as aesthetic empathy, presence, meaning, and imagination, as well as how existential resilience relates to the individual, community, and planetary levels of human life. You will discuss different paths to knowledge about art and aesthetics in relation to existential resilience, including empirical observations, philosophical approaches, introspection, and embodied experience. You will learn how creative and aesthetic experiences can be facilitated and communicated in different contexts to promote existential resilience.</p>

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Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Arts, Aesthetics and Existential Resilience

  Lund University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 1 December 2026

  Pace of study: 50 %