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Image from the Spring 2025 Dance Concert, Lindenwood University
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Immersive Art, Nature, and Afrofuturism: Cultivating Wellness and Cultural Awareness
Get PDFThis research demonstrates how Afrofuturistic art, combined with nature and scent, enables powerful methods to transform African Diaspora perceptions and support holistic wellness through sensory-emotional engagement. The project introduces The Next Narrative: An Immersive Journey Through Black Time as a multisensory immersive exhibition that combines Afrofuturistic aesthetics with Harlem Renaissance cultural elements. The exhibition presents salons as a sequence that allows visitors to experience time through visual, sonic, and atmospheric transitions. The three senses of touch, scent, and sound operate as fundamental tools for grounding and transformation, which disable analytical thinking while using bodily experiences to perform decolonial memory work. Nature is a metaphor representing Black time because it operates seasonally while connecting everything and regenerating itself. Olfactory experience serves as a method to activate the body\u27s existing knowledge through sensory memory. Through its installation design, this project establishes a living archive that challenges traditional linear historical frameworks of colonialism. It presents an alternative approach to immersive Black storytelling, focusing on embodied reception and cultural healing
The Call, October 2025
Get PDFThe Call is an electronic newsletter produced by the Lindenwood College of Arts and Humanities
Curriculum Beyond Constraint: Stakeholder Perspectives on Innovation and Autonomy in a Free School
Get PDFFree schools in the UK, like international ones, were established to promote autonomy, innovation, and diversity in education. This case study explores how one such school in the South of England, leveraged these freedoms to co-construct a distinctive and socially just curriculum. Data collected through semi-structured interviews and focus groups with school leaders, teachers, trustees, and parents was analysed thematically and revealed how leadership, curriculum design, and the hidden curriculum intersect to support holistic development, equity, and community cohesion. Particular attention is paid to how extended opportunities in the arts, sport, and enrichment activities contribute to cultural capital and wellbeing. The findings reveal that shared leadership and inclusive governance structures have enabled sustained innovation, rooted in a clear values framework and strong parental engagement. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from Dewey, Freire, and Bourdieu, the study illustrates how autonomy, when combined with reflective, community-based practice, can produce meaningful and contextually relevant educational outcomes. The school exemplifies an approach to innovation that balances academic rigour with care, creativity, and stakeholder voices. The paper concludes by discussing implications for policy and practice, offering a conceptual model for inclusive curriculum leadership in the context of school reform
2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement
Get PDF2025 Lindenwood University Commencement program.https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/commencement/1172/thumbnail.jp