Designing for Empathy
Perspectives on the Museum Experience
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:24th May '19
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As museums are currently shaping their tools for fostering empathy as an intentional outcome of museum experiences, the idea of empathy-building is reshaping them as socially relevant institutions that increasingly value diversity, accessibility, and equality. This is a non-linear, multi-layered, and multi-dimensional transformation that requires multidisciplinary, cross-industry, and cross-sector alliances for its sustainability. The potential of this collective transformation effort includes the invention of unconventional, evidence-based, and sustainable solutions that can be scaled up beyond the walls of traditional museums to all kinds of informal learning platforms to help eliminate the empathy-deficit in our world.
Designing for Empathy expands our understanding of empathy and its potential for fostering compassionate worldviews and actions through a multidisciplinary exploration in three parts: “The Object of Our Empathy” explores how we define and perceive the “Other;” “The Alchemy of Empathy” introduces thirteen design elements of empathy that might lead to transformative learning experiences; and “The Scope and the Spectrum of Empathy” highlights the importance of positioning empathy as a cross-industrial shared value for the benefit of people and the planet.
Designing for Empathy will inspire and empower those who are interested in intentionally designing for empathy to cultivate compassionate worldviews and actions that celebrate and preserve the oneness of all people, the environment, and our planet.
Designing for Empathy: Perspectives on theMuseum Experienceis a timely and intriguing collection of essays that argues for museums to dedicate themselves to the creation of experiences which promote empathy and affective concern as a way to both strengthen society and heal our broken social fabric. . . . There is much to be admired in Gokcigdem’s latest contribution to discussions about the role of empathy in museums. Readers will find the collection’s efforts to identify the core characteristics of empathy-based exhibit design to be especially. . . Some readers may also balk at Gokcigdem’s suggestion that there is a single essence, a oneness, that unites the universe, and that museums can help to reveal the essential interconnectedness between humanity and the planet on which we live. But in a time of enormous social tension, political turmoil, and public unrest, perhaps such lofty aspirations are exactly what we need. * The Public Historian *
In our increasingly virtual world, museums have a unique ability to bring alive experiences, ideas, and emotions through real objects, places, and stories – and through these to identify with new people and experiences in powerful ways. Elif Gokcigdem has assembled an impressive and inspiring collection of thought pieces from a variety of perspectives, both from in and outside of the museum field, on how – and why – museums might proactively and intentionally design their experiences to foster greater empathy. -- Laura L. Lott, President & CEO, American Alliance of Museums
ISBN: 9781538118290
Dimensions: 232mm x 157mm x 29mm
Weight: 744g
466 pages