Empathy

So what is empathy?

it is very complicated

it started a long time ago

without people even realising it

in fact empathy is part of our growing process

to simplify it as much as possible

it began when people were babies

when one baby started crying,

the other babies started crying

together for no apparent reason.

empathy take shape when 

we were little kids

we learn about life

how fragile life is

we start looking into ways to understand living itself

we started to think about how other people live their lives

and realise similarities and that we are not that different after all

sort of like a sense of belonging

and yes empathy involves emotions and sufferings and pain 

and a lot of other feelings to go along with it.

anyone can empathize, but not everyone can do it well

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/1Evwgu369Jw/maxresdefault.jpg

above was a clip shown to the class to explain empathy

it is often confuse with sympathy.
it describes empathy in a few parts which are

1. perspective taking and gaining perspective
2. stay out of judgement
3. recognize emotions
4. feeling with people

through this exercise we are suppose to find out what troubles comes with the short lifespan of furniture that affects the users, and maybe from there we can work out something towards a solution

in a way we are suppose to put ourselves in their shoes, or rather 

"sit on their chairs"... as i like to put it

since we are dealing with furniture and chair was the immediate furniture came to mind.