A crisis of imagination has been identified to be at the heart of the mounting social and ecological challenges we are facing now. Healthpunk is a new genre in speculative fiction developed by our group in the context of public health education for physiotherapists and occupational therapists. The focus of Healthpunk is to explore and utilize speculative fiction as a catalyst for more environmentally and socially responsible healthcare futures, such that the healthcare professions can more actively contribute to the transformative change we need today.
Healthpunk - Speculative fiction for socially and environmentally responsible healthcare
Logo from the original Physiopunk Vol 1 publication (by miucreative.com)Healthcare students, academics, clinicians, and patients all contribute to the exploration of urgently needed healthcare futures different from the status quo.
Publications
Maric, F. (2023). Mot løsninger på vår fantasikrise (Toward solutions for our crisis of imagination). Fysioterapeuten Tidsskriftet. https://www.fysioterapeuten.no/mot-losninger-pa-var-fantasikrise/151092
Johnsen Saue, A. M. (2023). Lekens kurative kraft: En fremtidshistorie om fysioterapi (The healing power of play: A fictional story about physiotherapy). Fysioterapeuten Tidsskriftet. https://www.fysioterapeuten.no/fagessay-fremtid-fysiopunk/lekens-kurative-kraft-en-fremtidshistorie-om-fysioterapi/150223
McPherson, K., Black, J., Byrne, A., Frost, B., Elder, M., Oliver, P. & Maric, F. (2023). PhysioPunk MiniZine: Punk it up! @Charles Sturt University. Environmental Physiotherapy Association. https://environmentalphysio.com/project/punk-it-up-introducing-physiotherapy-students-to-climate-change/
Maric, F., Nikolaisen, L. J., Ntinga, N. M., & Webb, J. (Eds.) (2022). Healthpunk Vol 2: Healthcare + Fiction + You. Open Physio Journal. https://www.doi.org/10.14426/opj/202212hp0200
Maric, F., Nikolaisen, L.J., & Bårdsen, Å. (Eds.). (2021). Physiopunk Vol 1. OpenPhysio Journal. https://doi.org/10.14426/opj/202111pp00
Upcoming work
We are currently developing a call for stories for Occupational Punk Vol 3. More information coming soon!
For questions about Healthpunk please contact Filip Maric (PhD)
Members:
Filip Maric (Principal investigator)