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Introduction
No full textThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a practical four-step approach to the challenges presented concerning how organisations can turn from merely feeling empathy with or for people to actions of empathy and compassion that can be implemented with and by communities. It discusses how refugee youth’s well-being and integration into societies can be strengthened through creativity and arts-based approaches, here as a way to strengthen their sense of belonging and connection to new environments. The book discusses how love and hate letters were used to gauge customer satisfaction and build empathy through digital business. It explores the relationship between historic and local stories, place making and empathy
Memory Box
No full textThe work can be interpreted as a collection of memory boxes that each hold a particular memory, but it can also be interpreted as a three-dimensional quilt that has been collectively stitched. The colourful work is created from all sorts of collected, found, reused and new materials. Green, blue and brown shwe-shwe printed textiles were used to create the cubes that were filled with reused materials. The work is created in partnership with Melanie Sarantou
Five Salmon and Two Fish (viisi lohta ja kaksi kalaa)
No full textThis chapter explores the role of photo and videodocumentation in an ‘artivist’ (Penley & Ross, 1991) project.Ephemeral textile art and activist performance art were usedto remonstrate against the legal sanctioning of a Finnishenvironmental graffiti artist who propagates environmentalaction against the disappearance of salmon from the Kemiriver in Finnish Lapland.Key words: Ephemeral textile, artivism, Kemi river, installationThis chapter explores the role of photo and video documentation in an ‘artivist’ (Penley & Ross, 1991) project. Ephemeral textile art and activist performance art were used to remonstrate against the legal sanctioning of a Finnish environmental graffiti artist who propagates environmental action against the disappearance of salmon from the Kemi river in Finnish Lapland
Materiality as a mediator of empathy through culture-based product design for tourism
No full textThis chapter investigates the role of materiality as a mediator of empathy through culture-based design by exploring the meanings that are associated with reindeer in product design. It adopts a culture- and material-based approach, which involves reflecting on how interactions amongst cultures can be recast as a resource in product design, specifically in the context of tourism. The use of materiality to facilitate empathy in culture-based design provides designers with tools to enhance self- and wider cultural understandings through their complex making and social environments. The chapter draws on methods such as workshops and participant observation. The chapter presents a theoretical framework for empathic design in tourist-focused products, which is developed from concepts borrowed from culture-based product design, and Leonardi’s concept of materiality that includes multisensory experiences of materials
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