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Informationen zum Autor Elif M. Gokcigdem, Ph.D., is the founder of Empathy-Building Through Museums Initiative. She is an innovative thought leader, a historian of Islamic art, and a museums scholar who is committed to creating fertile grounds of empathy through informal learning platforms to inspire positive behavior change, caring mindsets, and compassionate worldviews that value all of humanity and the planet. Gokcigdem is the author of two visionary books on empathy-building: Fostering Empathy Through Museums (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), and Designing for Empathy: Perspectives on the Museum Experience (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). She is the chief curator and co-chair of the world’s first museums and empathy summit titled: “Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion Through Museums with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama,” which took place in October-November, 2018 in Dharamsala, India. Klappentext Designing for Empathy is a volume of twenty-five essays contributed by multidisciplinary and museum thought leaders, collectively exploring the state of empathy for its design elements that might lead to positive behavior change and paradigm shift towards compassionate worldviews and actions. Zusammenfassung Designing for Empathy is a volume of twenty-five essays contributed by multidisciplinary and museum thought leaders, collectively exploring the state of empathy for its design elements that might lead to positive behavior change and paradigm shift towards compassionate worldviews and actions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Acknowledgements Preface Elif M. Gokcigdem Introduction Zorana Ivcevic Part I The Object of Our Empathy: How Do We Perceive the Other? Chapter 1: The Heart The Heart's Knowledge Will Never Decay Dario Robleto Chapter 2: The Brain Living Narratives: Neurobiology of Empathy Erik Jahner Chapter 3: Conscious Experience Empathic Space and Shared Consciousness: Museums and the Application of the Spread Mind Theory Riccardo Manzotti Chapter 4: The Worldview Empathy, Narcissism, and Visual Arts Engagement Sara Konrath Chapter 5: Augmented Reality Augmenting Empathy and Decolonizing AR/VR Mediums: How Do We Reimagine Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences? Amir Baradaran and Isolde Brielmaier Part II The Alchemy of Empathy: Ingredients of Transformative Perspective Change Chapter 6: Intentionality Discovering the Power of Art in Forging Empathic Connections Jon Carfagno Chapter 7: Intersectionality Building Transformative Empathetic Experiences to Talk About RACE Yolanda Moses and Joanne Jones-Rizzi Chapter 8: Curiosity Social Inquiry Exhibits: Fostering Social Learning in Museums Thomas Rockwell, Joshua Gutwill, Heike Winterheld, and Shawn Lani Chapter 9: Play Building a Culture for Kindness Through Collaborative Design Lisa Brahms and Anne Fullenkamp Chapter 10: Vulnerability From I to Thou: Transformation Through Traumatic Events Andreas Heinecke Chapter 11: Contemplation & Nuance Found in Translation Mohamed Zakariya Chapter 12: Proximity Designing for Place and People at the Border of Freedom: Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center Seth Frankel Chapter 13: Storytelling Empathy in Environmental Communications: Why People Matter for Saving Nature Anastasia Khoo, Jamey Anderson, and Conservation International Chapter 14: Synchronicity Tap Dancing Towards Empathic Communities Andrew Nemr Chapter 15: Awe & Wonder Designing for Wonder: Losing Your Self at the Museum Nicholas Bell Chapter 16: Collective Journeying Religious Pilgrimage and ...
