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341: 22: 202: 44:, begun in 2015. Its purpose is to help visitors view the world through the perspectives of others, using participatory storytelling and dialogue. The project states it can help people approach global issues such as prejudice, conflict and inequality by expressing empathy to change relationships. A weekly 219:
is a travelling "shoe shop" with over 350 pairs of shoes and audio stories collected by Empathy Museum. Visitors are invited to walk a mile in someone else's shoes by temporarily exchanging their footwear for a pair in the museum's collection. While walking, visitors listen to a story about the shoe
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is a portrait of life in London in 2020, through photography and audio stories installed outdoors. The project celebrates 34 extraordinary people, ranging from a midwife and a supermarket worker to an undertaker and an anaesthetist. It has been displayed in London at Sceaux Gardens Estate, Peckham
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is "like any other library but instead of borrowing a book you can borrow a person for conversation". The library presents a selection of "Living Books": people who tell a story about their life and discuss it with a member of the public visiting the installation.
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At each location it travels to, the museum collects stories and shoes from local people. Sometimes iterations of the project centre around certain themes. These include collections of stories from migrants in England (in collaboration with London's
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collection of 1001 books. Each book in the "library" has been donated by "someone who loves that book and thinks that other people might love it too". Notable book donors include
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Empathy Museum does not have a permanent location. Its projects are each designed as temporary installations that travel to international locations.
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Each Human Library is centred around a different theme including fashion, food, home and age.
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Empathy Museum's From Where I'm Standing at Sceaux Gardens Estate, Peckham, 2021
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Empathy Museum's A Mile in My Shoes at The Migration Museum in London, 2018.
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2020). Stories have been collected in various languages, including
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in 2016, and at the Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair in 2016.
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In May 2018, Empathy Museum began a weekly podcast titled
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Index

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London International Festival of Theatre
art installations
podcast
philosopher
Roman Krznaric
artist
Clare Patey
London
United Kingdom
crowd-sourced
Jay Rayner
Kate Raworth
Lemn Sissay
Ian McKellen
Chris O'Dowd
Suzanne Moore
London International Festival of Theatre
London
SOAS
Whitechapel Gallery
London International Festival of Theatre
Perth, Western Australia
Perth Writers Festival
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Migration Museum
Health Foundation
Choose Love
National Theatre Scotland
Arts Centre Melbourne

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