AUTHOR: AYBARS AŞÇI

In today's polarized world, we are increasingly pulled into echo chambers where it becomes harder to understand perspectives other than our own. To have a pluralistic worldview, we need to learn how to consider other vantage points. 

Can we be nudged to do that?

Designing for Empathy: The Architecture of Connections in Learning Environments explores the deep, inextricable relationship between developmental psychology and our physical environment.  By connecting perspective taking in psychology to perspectival space in architecture, the book defines the geometry of empathy and it postulates that the forces that operate in our spatial cognition can also shift perspectives, thereby helping us develop empathy. 

 Through research and design, architect Aybars Aşçı explores spatial constructs across a range of scales that situate learning environments through interpenetrations with their context, while also catalyzing narratives that are generated through translations between different people, forms of life, ideas, emotions, images, languages, and cultures. 

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