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LIFT/ Empathy Museum at Now Gallery

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Time 11:00
Date 02/07/16
Price Free
  • Produced by Empathy Museum
  • Price Free
  • Get ready to visit the world’s first experimental space dedicated entirely to the skill of empathising
  • Bring along decent socks- you will actually be trying on other peoples' shoes
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What is it like to have spent years in prison, or to be a child growing up in Tehran, or to have rediscovered love in your eighties? The Empathy Museum will help you find out.

Running from 11th June to 2nd July, The Empathy Museum presents two installations designed to help us tap into our empathy, and use it as a power for good in relationships and global challenges.

An interactive shoe shop, A Mile in My Shoes, invites you to (literally) step into someone else’s shoes and embark on a mile-long physical, emotional and imaginative journey to see the world through their eyes. While the mobile library, A Thousand and One Books, is home to hundreds of donated favourites. Peruse the pages and then pass it on, to friend or stranger. The library will track the books’ journeys and see how far they travel.

Set up by Roman Krznaric in 2015, the museum is the first one of its kind dedicated to helping visitors develop the skill of putting themselves in others’ shoes. As one of the founders of the School of Life along with Alain de Botton, Krznaric has lost faith in the old model of changing society through parties and politics and laws. "Empathy has this amazing power for social change," he explained to the Independent. "We need to take empathy out of the realm of psychology and not only into everyday relations but also into culture."

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