Heritage Empath - An Embodied Storytelling Experience

遗产埃姆帕斯探索了使用本地化的移动媒体来激发人们在社会关系中的共鸣。该项目对历史同理心特别感兴趣--鼓励历史景观和遗产遗址的参观者站在过去几代人的立场上，比其他方式更主观地接触过去的事件和情况。遗产为测试移情方法提供了一个可行的框架，因为它吸引了广泛的公众兴趣，并吸引了热情的公众受众来测试项目产出。当被邀请思考历史行为者和情况时，历史遗迹的参观者熟悉视角、证据和意图的问题，并熟悉富有想象力的历史重建和解释方法。近年来，国家信托和历史皇家宫殿等遗产组织对为游客开发更身临其境、更现实、更有情感和情感的体验表现出了极大的兴趣，现在已经试验了许多创新方法。然而，很少或根本没有开展研究来评估移情访客参与可能需要什么，或者现有模式在多大程度上取得了成功。因此，遗产文化路径试图做三件事：1)更好地理解同理心作为解决问题的实用和实用工具的价值；2)研究(遗产领域内外)当前的最佳做法，并建立一个适用于人类社会关系各个领域的同理心参与应用程序；3)通过围绕英国布里斯托尔一个城市过去和现在的移民经历建立一个案例研究，检验这一知识。遗产埃姆帕特收集和策划历史上和生活中的移民到这座城市的个人故事，并将它们纳入身临其境的互动体验中，可免费下载到个人移动设备上，然后仔细评估其对观众的影响。以这一框架为基础，我们希望创造一种简单易用、适应性强的产品，面向遗产行业的利益相关者进行营销，并提出这样一个问题：能否通过联系比较历史经验来有益地解决当今社会关系面临的挑战？我们能通过他人的视角和经验更好地理解当代社会问题吗？首先，我们会在历史想象的“安全区”中遇到这些问题吗？遗产EmPath与过去的经验结合在一起，然后以创新和主观的形式将其应用于现在。

Heritage Empath explores the use of locative mobile media to inspire empathy in human social relations. The project is particularly interested in historical empathy - challenging visitors at historical landscapes and sites of heritage to step into the shoes of past generations, facilitating a more subjective engagement with past events and circumstances than would otherwise be possible. Heritage offers a viable framework for testing empathic approaches because it attracts broad public interest, and enthusiastic public audiences on whom to test project outputs. Visitors to historic sites are familiar with questions of perspective, evidence, and intention when being invited to think about historical actors and situations, and with imaginative approaches to historical reconstruction and interpretation. Heritage organisations such as the National Trust and Historic Royal Palaces have shown a good deal of interest in developing more immersive, 'realistic', affective and emotional experiences for their visitors in recent years, and a number of innovative approaches have now been trialled. However, little or no research has been carried out to assess what an empathic visitor engagement might require or the extent to which existing models have been successful. Heritage Empath seeks to do three things therefore: 1) to reach a better understanding of the value of empathy as an applicable and practical tool in problem solving, 2) to research current best practice (both in and beyond the heritage field) and build an application for empathic engagement that works and is designed to be adaptable for use in a variety of fields in human social relations, 3) to test that knowledge by building a case study around past and present experiences of migration in a single British city, Bristol. Heritage Empath collects and curates the personal stories of historical and living migrants to the city and incorporates them into an immersive and interactive experience, freely downloadable to personal mobile devices, and then carefully evaluating its impact upon audiences. Using this framework as a basis, we hope to create a simple to use, adaptable product for marketing to stakeholders in the heritage industry and to ask, can challenges to social relations in the present day be beneficially approached through association with comparative historical experience? Can we better understand contemporary social problems through the perspective and experience of others, by first encountering them in the 'safety zone' of historical imagination? Heritage Empath works with past experience, in place, and then applies it to the present in innovative and subjective form.