Contemplative Design Workshop: Applications in Higher Education

The workshop will integrate humanistic scholarship on historical contemplative practices with design thinking to generate new applications for higher education. We will convene a diverse group of experts in Contemplative Studies, design thinking, transformative technology, psychology, arts, and neuroaesthetics to integrate scholarship on contemplation into a formal design process. That same group, along with UVA professors, will engage that design process to generate new secular practices to be applied in curricular and co-curricular settings to facilitate student flourishing. Outcomes include a suite of new practices, an open access Generative Contemplation Toolkit, and launch of the Contemplative Design Lab at UVA.