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 artistbr>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 crowd-sourced col ...
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Empathy Museum's A Thousand And One Books
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding others (and others' emotions in particular). Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional (or affective) empathy, Wiktionary:somatic#Etymology, somatic empathy, and spiritual empathy.Rothschild, B. (with Rand, M. L.). (2006). ''Help for the Helper: The psychophysiology of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma''. Etymology The English word ''empathy'' is derived from the Ancient Greek (''empatheia'', meaning "physical affection or passion"). That word derives from (''en'', "in, at") and (''pathos'', "passion" or "suffering"). Theodor Lipps adapted the German aesthetic term ("feeling into") to psychology in 1903, and Edward B. Titchener translated into ...
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