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Designing for Empathy: What, Why, How?
October 28, 2017
Dr. Gokcigdem participated in a ground-breaking “Visual Arts and Empathy Think Tank” at the U.C. Berkeley, hosted by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)’s newly launched Center for Empathy and Visual Arts (CEVA) and the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab (BSI). “Fostering Empathy Through Museums” was used as a reference book throughout the workshop, which included 15 empathy thought leaders and multidisciplinary experts.
Participants at the “Visual Arts and Empathy Think Tank” included the following (photo, from left to right): Dr. Elise Ogle, Project Manager, Researcher, and 3D Modeler in the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University / Dr. Elif M. Gokcigdem, Founder of the Empathy-Building Through Museums Initiative, and Author of “Fostering Empathy Through Museums” / Dr. Marco lacoboni, Lab Director and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab at the UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center / Dr. Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley / Dario Robleto, American transdisciplinary artist, storyteller, and citizen-scientist / Alex Bortolot, Content Strategist at Mia / Natalie Wright, Chipstone’s Charles Hummel Curatorial Fellow / Danielle Krettek, Principal and Founder of Google’s Empathy Lab / Paul Gabriel, Educational Therapist / Karleen Gardner, Director of Learning Innovation at Mia / Dr. Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, Public Policy, and Education, and Director of Culture Change & Social Justice Initiatives and the Emerging Human Rights Leaders Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy / Dana Mekler, Global Manager for the Empathy Initiative at Ashoka / Dr. Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas, Science Director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley / Dr. Sara Konrath, Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy / Kaywin Feldman, Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Visual Arts and Empathy Think Tank
University of California, Berkeley (October 28, 2017)
