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Empathy Museum
Empathy Museum is a series of art installations, begun in 2015. Its purpose is to help visitors view the world through the perspectives of others, using participatory storytelling and dialogue. The project states it can help people approach global issues such as prejudice, conflict and inequality by expressing empathy to change relationships. A weekly podcast, ''A Mile in My Shoes'', was started in 2018. Background and description The project was founded by philosopher Roman Krznaric and is directed by artist]Clare Patey In May 2018, Empathy Museum began a weekly podcast titled ''A Mile in My Shoes''. The podcast shares stories of the lives of various people around the world. Empathy Museum does not have a permanent location. Its projects are each designed as temporary installations that travel to international locations. Empathy Museum's offices are based in London, United Kingdom. Projects ''A Thousand and One Books'' ''A Thousand and One Books'' is a Crowdsourcing, crow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empathy Museum's A Thousand And One Books
Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another person's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. There are more (sometimes conflicting) definitions of empathy that include but are not limited to social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding others. Often times, empathy is considered to be a broad term, and broken down into more specific concepts and types that include cognitive empathy, emotional (or affective) empathy, wiktionary:somatic#Etymology, somatic empathy, and spiritual empathy. Empathy is still a topic of research. The major areas of research include the development of empathy, the genetics and neuroscience of empathy, cross-species empathy, and the impairment of empathy. Some researchers have made efforts to quantify empathy through different methods, such as from questionnaires where participants can fill out and then be scored on their answers. The ability to imagin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
