Peer-reviewed article in the journal Arts (MDPI), September 2026.

Arts interventions built around active, embodied making change people more than looking at finished work, but non-artists often meet them with discomfort and self-doubt. The article presents ARTFUL, a six-stage, neuroscience-informed framework that lowers that barrier by pairing understanding with embodied experience at every stage. It was developed in a qualitative case study with 24 management students at Inholland University of Applied Sciences.

Paper for the Art of Research conference, Aalto University, 2026; preprint on SocArXiv.

How do you bring clandestine writings by Afghan women into a Western artistic space without reproducing the structures that silenced them? The paper traces the formal decisions behind the opera-installation Unknown, I Live With You (venue, casting, costume, audience placement) and argues that each was an ethical choice as much as an artistic one. It asks whether opera's co-equal blend of music, staging and space can be turned against its own colonial tendencies.

Paper presented at the Agency and Skill in Human-AI Interaction workshop, CHIWORK '26, Linz.

Prompt-based interaction with large language models appears to reduce cognitive engagement compared with unaided creative work. The paper proposes a model of two cognitive modes and three intersections between them, drawn from algorithmic composition practice twenty years before generative AI, and argues that the deskilling comes from eliminating the transitions between modes. Re-introducing those transitions is a teachable form of resistance, for practice, pedagogy and tool design.

Essay first published at journal.crps.ai, September 2025.

Why endure the messy, time-consuming frustration of making music when a machine can do it in a few clicks? Drawing on neuroscience, creativity research and her own experience of composing, Głowicka argues that the struggle itself is the healing, the growth and the point. AI can serve for prototyping and inspiration, but not replace our need to process experience through making.

A fragment from a cycle of short stories written in 1995, published in 2009 in the booklet of the CD Red Sun. In The Glazier, a hole in a window that lets in the scent of summer trees becomes a problem when the frost arrives.

Connected Creativity — How the Arts Can Develop Your Creative Skills, written with visual artist Maritha van Amerom and edited by Belle Jansen. The manuscript is complete and in review; publication is expected in 2026.

The book sets out the ARTFUL method in a form a teacher can pick up and use: twelve chapters across the Self, Other and World domains, each with facilitator scripts, exercises that work in an ordinary classroom, and a plain account of the research behind them. It is written for people who teach creative skills to students who do not consider themselves artists.

The framework and the wider programme are described under the Connected Creativity project.

Publication of the Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation (CoECI), launched at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie on 3 March 2025.

How can artistic methods contribute to research and innovation without losing what makes them artistic? The book gathers the strengths researchers and teachers see in artistic practice (exploratory, iterative, situated, embodied) and where they collide with the goal-oriented habits of innovation funding. Free to download as a PDF.

Book published by Krytyka Polityczna with the Sacrum Profanum festival, edited by Jan Topolski, including an interview with Kasia Głowicka.

A consortium project asking what happens to human creative agency when the tools of creative work begin to generate. The question is not whether the output is good, but who is deciding.

Initiated by Głowicka from Inholland's Creative Business department and built out across institutions where creative work is taught differently, with TU Delft, the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the Royal Conservatory, Leiden University and the Rietveld Academie under discussion. Funded by the ZHIA Impactfonds.

Connected Creativity — How the Arts Can Develop Your Creative Skills, written with visual artist Maritha van Amerom and edited by Belle Jansen. Developed through a Comenius Senior Fellowship from the NRO at the Creative Business department of Inholland University of Applied Sciences in The Hague. The project covers the framework, the classroom programme, the book, and the materials that go with them.

The ARTFUL framework

The book sets out ARTFUL, a six-phase arts-based method for teaching creative skills to students who do not think of themselves as artists. Its argument is that cognitive and embodied work have to advance together: each phase pairs a way of thinking with a way of doing, rather than treating reflection as something that happens after the making. Working through the phases in sequence is not the same as working through them as pairs, and the pairing is where the learning sits.

Twelve skills are organised across three domains.

Self — mind wandering, creative flow, intuition, resilience, curiosity, and the inner critic.

Other — collaborative creativity, entrepreneurship, creative courage, creative vision.

World — dealing with uncertainty, creativity and technology.

Each chapter carries facilitator scripts, exercises that can be run in a normal classroom, and a plain account of the research the exercise rests on — Csikszentmihalyi on flow, Fredrickson on positive emotion, Porges on safety and the nervous system, Damasio on feeling and reasoning, Dane and Pratt on intuition, Sarasvathy on effectuation, Beaty on the creative brain, Magsamen and Ross on the arts and health. The science sections are written for practitioners and say plainly where the evidence is thin.

Beyond the book

The programme also includes a companion game and a series of short instructional videos, so that a facilitator can run sessions without having read the whole book first. Course materials and updates are at connectedcreativity.nl.

Collaborative Online International Learning between Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, and the Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, led by Kasia Głowicka with Esther Bouw, Ieva Zemīte and Avinash Changa of WeMakeVR.

Students explored cross-cultural creative practice and empathetic design in VRChat and MeetinVR, supported by Miro. The project ran from 28 February to 14 April 2025 with a VIS grant.

Research project funded by the ARC Research Group at Inholland, and the work that led to Connected Creativity.

Can short pieces of sound do something a worksheet cannot? The project produced a set of brief audio interventions for personal-development training, each doing one thing: settling a room, opening a period of unfocused thinking, marking a transition, closing a session. Sound shifted the state of a group but could not carry a curriculum, which is what pointed towards the ARTFUL method. Concluded in 2021.