Empathy + Design

Event Date as Display String:

Monday, October 7, 2019, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard University GSD, Room 124, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://mde.harvard.edu/susan-lanzoni-empathy?admin_panel=1

Event Description:

This lecture will reveal the fascinating and largely unknown story of
the first appearance of empathy and will track its shifting meanings
over the following century. Despite the word's ubiquity today, few
realize that it began as a translation of Einfühlung ("in-feeling"), a
term in German psychological aesthetics that described how spectators
projected their own feelings and movements into objects of art and
nature. This early conception of empathy transformed into its opposite
over the ensuing decades. Social scientists and clinical psychologists
refashioned empathy to require the deliberate putting aside of one's
feelings to more accurately understand another's. Even as
neuroscientists continue to map the brain correlates of empathy, its
many dimensions still elude strict scientific description. This talk
will uncover empathy's historical layers, offering a rich portrait of
the tension between the reach of one's own imagination and the
realities of others' experiences.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Monday, October 7, 2019 - 18:30 to 20:00

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