The Liminal Learning Portal

This time last year #AMileinMyShoes had just opened at the Australian National Maritime Museum, sharing a collection of new stories from Australia’s diverse immigrant and refugee communities. Got us thinking also about this fragment from academic Andrea Witcomb, which the museum’s curator Kim Tao cited while we were making the project:

“Affect works through evoking, moving or touching the viewer, producing a visceral response that promotes empathy rather than just simply sympathy. Feeling empathy is a prerequisite for dialogue, for the recognition of commonalities. While sympathy can reinforce differences by operating in terms of power relations, empathy can build bridges.”