Sport and Virtual Reality
My work on imagination and creativity has led me to explore these topics in the context of sport and movement-driven practices, working together with philosophers of sport, such as Kenneth Agerholm and Susanne Ravn.
From 2022-2025, my senior postdoctoral project at the University of Antwerp investigated the role of embodiment and imagination in Virtual Reality. I hosted one conference ("Playing in VR") and two workshops ("Digital art practices" and "Keeping in real in VR").
In 2026 I have received a Humboldt Research Fellowship Humboldt for Experienced Researchers within the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme at the Department of Philosophy II, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, for the project "Real Virtuality: Interaction, embodiment, play and therapy in VR"
Newest in Sport
Rucińska, Z. & Ravn, S. (2026). Enactive and embodied approaches to sporting creativity and improvisation. In Rasmussen, L. J. T., & Richard, V. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity in Sport. Palgrave Macmillan. Global Perspectives in Applied Sport and Performance Psychology. ISBN 9783032133915
Ekdahl, D., Hilvoorde, I. V., Rucinska, Z. A., & Ravn, S. (2024). What is esports performance?. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 6, 1538686.
Rucińska, Z., & Ravn, S. (2024). Embodied cognition and movement-driven practices. In Shapiro, L. & Spaulding, S. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, vol.II (pp. 322-333). Routledge.
Rucińska, Z. (2021). Enactive planning in rock climbing: recalibration, visualization and nested affordances. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03025-7
Gallagher, S., & Rucińska, Z. (2021). Prospecting performance: rehearsal and the nature of imagination. Synthese, 199 (1-2), 4523-4541. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02989-2
Rucińska, Z. & Aggerholm, K. (2019). Embodied and Enacted Creativity in Sports. In M. Cappuccio (Ed.), Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology (pp. 669-694). MIT Press.
ISBN: 9780262038508
Newest in VR
Saroka, V., Jędrejek, T, Trybulec, M & Rucińska, Z. (2026). The Role of Temporality in Virtual Reality Interventions for Depressive Episodes—A Scoping Review. Healthcare 14(2), 156. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare14020156
Rucińska, Z. (2024). Embodied and Enactive Imagination in VR. Journal of the Philosophy of Games, Vol. 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.5617/jpg.10633
Open access here: https://journals.uio.no/JPG/article/view/10633
Baggs, E., Grabarczyk, P. & Rucińska, Z. (2024). The visual information available in virtual reality. Ecological Psychology: special issue on Ecological Aesthetics. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2024.2322992
Rucińska, Z. (2024). Enactive Imagination: Its Roots and Contemporary Horizons. In G. Wellner, G. Dierckxsens & M. Arienti (Eds.), The Philosophy of Imagination: Technology, Art, Ethics (pp. 203-215). Bloomsbury.
Rucińska Z. A. (2023) Optimism about virtual environments. Constructivist Foundations 18(2): 200–202. https://constructivist.info/18/2/200