A tactile approach to introduce the skin autoimmune disease psoriasis to the general public and the vision-impaired community.

Scientific outreach activities play an important role in disseminating knowledge, connecting the general public to research and breaking down scientific skepticism barriers. However, the vision-impaired community is often disadvantaged when the most common audio-visual approach of scientific communication is applied. Here we integrated tactile clues in the scientific communication of immune processes involved in the autoimmune skin disease psoriasis. We fostered the involvement of the vision-impaired community through interactive experiences, including tactile scientific origami art, a haptic poster and wood-carved molecular models. Readily accessible science communication that engages a number of senses is a critical step toward making science more inclusive and engaging for individuals with a wide range of sensory abilities. The approach of the 2023 Monash Sensory Science exhibition aligns with the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion and helps to empower a more informed and scientifically literate public.

The Use of PEAUrigami® Educational- Artistic Compositions for Primary Prevention of Melanoma: First Results in Private Dermatology Practice.

The incidence rate of melanoma have risen constantly since the 1970s, mainly due to increased sun exposure and sun-tanning. Primary prevention remains the most effective manner of reducing the incidence rate of melanoma, but it is confronted with campaigns conveying a message that may cause concern during leisure and recreational activities. Other forms of primary prevention approaches need to be created. In this paper, an exploratory study of 20 Caucasian patients of a private dermatology practice tested the following hypothesis: "How can scientific-driven art be used in the primary prevention of melanoma?" We attempted to raise patient awareness using PEAUrigami® educational-artistic compositions based on skin pattern paper, origami artwork. Two frames illustrating the pigmentary system and a melanoma were exhibited in the office of dermatologist. The spontaneous reactions of the 20 patients collected by the dermatologist resulted in the co-creation of a final educational- artistic triptych for primary prevention of melanoma, with the dermatologist offering guidance to the artist. This triptych is now systematically used by the dermatologist with new patients at a private practice as an original and effective manner of primary prevention, as this instinctively produces emotions and feelings of danger through the limbic system. It reinforces the educational aspect of sun prevention and accentuates the contrast between "good" and "evil." Scientific-driven art such as PEAUrigami® can produce this type of conscious and subconscious emotions, especially when the vision of an artist is combined with that of a dermatologist. In the future, we trust that all forms of scientific-driven art forms could be a complementary method for the primary prevention of melanoma in private dermatology practice. We recommend dermatologists to try out these educational-artistic compositions by replacing decorative frames at their practices. (SKINmed. 2022;20:115-120).

An Educational-Artistic Exhibition on the Main Dermatoses: "PEAUrigami ® [Dermatogami]".

The skin is a cutaneous paper, more precisely "the paper of self," which covers the entire body. Origami is the art of paper-folding. SKIN and ORIGAMI, beyond the word play around paper, are similar in several respects-the polygonal network, the basic folds, and pleat folding. The idea of producing artwork connecting the cutaneous physiology of the skin with the art of origami is meant to pay an artistic tribute to the skin. We firstly took photographs of different skins, with different magnifications, which were developed on different-sized squares of paper in order to make folded structures. With skin physiology being reinterpreted through origami in this way, we logically called this first educational--artistic exhibition PEAUrigami associating the French word "peau" (skin) with "origami." After PEAUrigami® dedicated to the physiology of the skin, exhibited during the European Academy of Dermato-Venereology (EADV) 2019 Congress in Madrid, Spain, I continued my creative work on skin with the artistic reinterpretation of the main dermatoses within the framework of the PEAUrigami® [DERMATOGAMI] exhibition. This exhibition, which will be presented at the EADV 2020 Congress in Vienna, Austria, in October 2020, is created from photos of skin affected by the main dermatoses and is based on the etymology of the dermatosis presented. The Greek or Latin origin of the Dermatosis is translated visually via the art of Japanese paper-folding. So, "acne" from the Greek term ακµÎ® (akme), which means "tip", "summit," will be reinterpreted via a pointed origami structure produced from photos of the skin of acne sufferers. (SKINmed. 2021;19:-0).

An Educational Artistic Exhibition on the Skin: "PEAUrigami® or SKINorigami".

No other organ in the human body has as many functions as the skin: biologic, cultural, social, and psychologic functions. The skin is a cutaneous paper, more precisely "the paper of self," which covers our body. Origami is the art of paper folding. SKIN and ORIGAMI, beyond the wordplay around paper, are similar in several respects: the polygonal network, the basic folds, and pleat folding; hence, the idea of producing artwork connecting the cutaneous physiology with the art of origami pays an artistic tribute to the skin. Our artistic and cultural endeavor has an educational purpose to communicate knowledge of the physiology of the skin to different audiences: (1) to an audience of initiates, dermatologists, and scientists who will be able to recognize the basic facts of skin physiology reinterpreted by origami and (2) to the general public who discover the unsuspected complexity of the skin. We first took photographs of different skins, with different magnifications, which were developed on different-sized squares of paper in order to make folded structures. With skin physiology being reinterpreted through origami in this way, we logically called this educational artistic exhibition "PEAUrigami," associating the French word peau (skin) and "origami."