Virtual “Designing for Empathy Dialogue & Workshop” at the Glencairn Museum (April 15, 2021)

Concept to Action: What is Empathy & What does it look like in a Museum?

In a time when our world is experiencing vulnerability and polarization, we are increasingly becoming aware of the acute need for empathy. It is critical to solving our most complex social and environmental problems.Fostering a more sophisticated empathic worldview can develop our sense of interconnectedness, or oneness of all beings—all of humanity and the planet. This is why a more intentional approach to empathy-building is required for our collective future.

Museums are uniquely equipped for fostering empathy in our lives, institutions, and society. In the past few years, there has been exciting work taking place on empathy-building in museums across the U.S., and themomentum for embedding empathy goals in museum programs and exhibition design is growing at a promis-ing rate.

Join us on Thursday, April 15, 2021, as we listen to our expert panel discuss the inspiring new ways in which empathy is becoming a key ingredient for initiatives at museums and other institutions, and how this focus can enhance desired impacts for audiences and institutional culture change around the world. Participants will then join the panel in Philip Himberg’s informative and enjoyable “Creative Tensions“ exercise, designed for you to experience for yourself what empathy-building can look and feel like.