City of Empathy is a test out, world-lab structure of the self-initiated Developing Cultures of Empathy research project, 2022 / 2023.
This project is funded by Provincie Fryslân and art organisation VHDG Leeuwarden. VHDG are an artistic partner in this trajectory.
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What is City of Empathy?
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It is a proposed framework where cultures (practices, habits, values, systems) of empathy play a central role in re-embedding good intentions back into the core of how many things are practiced and undertaken. It is not a badge for a city to wear, but a challenge for a city to step into, and as a project it aims to formulate a fresh and useful structure of up-scaled neuro-mechanisms of empathy.
What am I looking for?
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The cooperation of local government to work in a together focused, non-judgemental, critical and skill sharing way, which should prove useful, energising and integrative.
If you are a policy advisor in the Provincie Fryslân, I would love to hear from you and to fill you in on what is possible. My time is funded via the Provincie's stimuleringsfonds voor onderzoek, so I am yours to use, and I will come to you.