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. It started with one chapter on embodied creativity in sport with Kenneth Agerholm (2019), and one paper in Synthese on enactive planning in rock climbing (2021), and these texts made me the "philosopher of embodied cognition", scoring more invitations!
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Then from 2022 onwards, my senior postdoctoral project investigates the role of embodiment and imagination in Virtual Reality. This has led me to supervise two PhD students on the topic of VR (virtual rape and virtual therapies), and explore the topic of virtual play at one conference ("Playing in VR") and two workshops ("Digital art practices" and "Keeping in real in VR", all organised by me in Antwerp in 2024!
Newest in Sport
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Rucińska, Z. & Ravn, S. (under contract). Enactive and embodied approaches to sporting creativity and improvisation. Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Sport (ed. Rasmussen & Richard).
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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.
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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
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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
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Newest in VR
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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
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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
Open access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10407413.2024.2322992
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RuciÅ„ska Z. A. (2023) Optimism about virtual environments. Constructivist Foundations 18(2): 200–202. https://constructivist.info/18/2/200
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