Individual
Identifying early bio-clinical, psychosocial, environmental, and digital warning signals — enabling intervention before a phase transition into illness.
Creare Lab
Researching, creating, and solving by thinking across boundaries
An independent online lab advancing the connections between science, health, and wellbeing. We explore the dynamic interplay of brain, mind, body, and world — and translate cutting-edge science into practical applications for individuals, practitioners, and communities.
Transdisciplinary approach
Moving beyond dualisms and linear thinking
Diseases do not exist in isolation but interact in complex ways with biological, environmental, and psychosocial factors. These interactions require research methodologies that go beyond reductionist methods.
Complexity science — a transdisciplinary framework that explores how relationships between system components lead to emergent behaviours — provides a holistic approach to tackling these challenges.
Transdisciplinary thinking develops practical, sustainable solutions applicable in real-world contexts, tackling challenges beyond the reach of any single discipline — or of multiple fields working in isolation.
Objective
Creare Lab pioneers an integrative approach to human health and wellbeing — conducting research and developing methods, tools, and services that empower individuals and communities to understand, strengthen, and sustain the adaptive systems on which their wellbeing depends.
Impact
From fragmented and reactive to unified and anticipatory
By equipping individuals and communities with tools to navigate complex, real-world challenges, we aim to reduce the burden of chronic disease, expose the structural roots of health inequity, and validate a paradigm in which resilience is engineered, not merely hoped for.
Systemic
The shift from fragmented healthcare delivery to coordinated, preventative ecosystems.
Scientific & Epistemological
The shift from reductionist, data-only approaches to transdisciplinary wisdom.
Societal & Cultural
The shift from "fighting disease" to "cultivating resilience".
Beyond disciplines. Beyond fragmentation. Beyond limits.
Target the system's architecture to create meaningful change
From static to dynamic
Observe the emergent property of your entire network, rather than a fixed target.
From symptoms to systems
Identify high-leverage nodes and early warning signals before a small imbalance escalates into a crisis.
We see the whole
From molecular epigenetics to global cultural forces — drawing on science, art, embodiment, and lived experience alike.
Research
Research lines
Exploring the dynamic interplay of brain, mind, body, and world through the lens of Complexity Science.
Mapping subjective–objective symptom relationships
How subjective narratives of symptoms and emotional states align with — or diverge from — clinical assessments and biomedical measurements across medical, psychiatric, and neurological conditions.
Complex patient-reported outcomes & experiences
Narrative-based mixed methods for exploratory, qualitative, and observational health studies that complement traditional clinical measures.
The impact of conditions on wellbeing
Gathering narratives at scale about social isolation, identity changes, and emotional challenges — with self-categorisation that reveals patterns in emotional and social responses.
Complexity & predictability in disease management
Exploring whether chronic and multifactorial conditions can be managed more effectively by categorising them within the Cynefin framework.
Biomedicine & Complexity Science
Digitised clinical rating scales with algorithm-based feedback; biomedical and digital biomarkers for early diagnosis and personalised treatment; and the ethics of digital neurology — data privacy and patient autonomy.
A transdisciplinary hub
Creating a hub to address critical questions about the dynamic interplay of brain, mind, body, and world.
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