What do young people need not simply to cope with the future, but to flourish within it?

In this special introduction to The Signal Room, Shona Benson sits down with Susan Magsamen, founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the NeuroArts Blueprint.

Their conversation explores the essential role of art, culture and creative expression in human development—and why these capacities matter even more in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, digital connectivity and social fragmentation. Susan reflects on the growing evidence behind the arts and health, the importance of lived and Indigenous knowledge, and the need to place technology in service of humanity rather than the other way around.

At the hea ...