EMPATHY LADDER

YEAR: 2010
MATERIAL: TIMBER, CARDBOARD, TRACING PAPER
WEBSITE: The way you make me feel! maidempathy
RESEARCH PARTNER: LEANDER ANGERER



The Phobias of Height is a common conflict in between people that cause emotional stress to each other. The Empathy Ladder is a tool that can let them understand the people’s perspective of height is not the same. To help both groups to empathy with the difficulty to stand on top of the building or climb up the ladder.

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The Empathy Ladder is a ladder that can be used by both people with or without phobias of height. For the people with phobias, the image inside the boxes is about the change of height. Every time the user step up, they can see the level in the image raise one floor. But because the hole on the box is really small so they can only see the images in one eye which will make the vision into flat picture. Therefore, they don't feel the difference of height will make them feel tense also let them realised that people without phobias' feeling. In another way, another side is for people without fear of height can see the dramatic change inside the height phobias' brain.