Cecilia von Brandenburg

Cecilia von Brandenburg

Aalto/Helsinki, Art Education

topic: Art, work and well-being has more than 20 years experience in art education and in art therapy. She has specialized in possibilities of using art in promoting health at work. Her feasibility study (2003) explored new possibilities what artistic activities can offer to improve safety and health at work and to promote employee work ability. Her report on relations between culture and well-being was published by the Ministry of Education in 2008. Von Brandenburg`s  dissertation research in the University of Art and Design/Aalto University, Helsinki  with the topic “Art, Work and Well-being” is located on the borderlines between philosophy of art education, research in worklife, cultural and communal policy and research on health promotion at work. The aim of this study is to increase understanding on concepts of man and of artistic thinking in relation to human being and to changing world of work and the society.

Expertise areas: Philosophy of art education, art therapy, concept of man, art and health promotion at work.

Publications in English:

Brandenburg von, Cecilia 2006c,  Visual Arts as a Supportive Measure for Improving Well-Being at Work and Promoting Employee Work Ability – New Ideas and Practical Examples, In: Hietanen O. (ed.), Well-being in the information society. Proceedings of the WIS 2006 Conference on Well-being in the Information Society 11-12 May 2006, Turku Finland.. Series C-2:2006. Publications of the Turku School of Economics. Tampere 2006. 139-152

Brandenburg von, Cecilia 2008a, Kulttuurin ja hyvinvoinnin välisistä yhteyksistä. Näköaloja taiteen soveltavaan käyttöön. (Connections between Culture and Well-Being) Publications of Ministry of Education 2008:12. Helsinki. Available: http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Julkaisut/2008/Kulttuurin_ja_hyvinvoinnin_valisista_yhteyksista?lang=fi (9.12.2009) (in Finnish with an English Summary on Page 6)

Brandenburg von, Cecilia 2009a, Art, health promotion and well-being at work. Synnyt-Origins, Finnish Studies in Art 1/2009.University of Art and Design, Helsinki. 25-31. (refereed) Available:

http://arted.uiah.fi/synnyt/1_2009/brandenburg.pdf (9.12.2009)