Suspend judgments, break down barriers, dissolve discrimination with blows empathy. A nice challenge to Levi’s which, together with Empatia Foundation Milan, has decided to offer the public the opportunity to put themselves in someone else’s shoes, indeed in other people’s shoes, in an original way.
Taking the English expression literallye walk a mile in a someone’s shoes (put yourself in someone’s shoes) is the well-known Native American proverb Never criticize a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes, the English artist Clare Patey (director of Empathy Museum) and the British philosopher Roman Krznaric, with the support of the brand, they created a special, visible and usable installation from 21 to 28 September in Milan.
The work is based on the concept of empathy, a capacity and human predisposition to understand the other, to listen to him, to the point of stepping into his own shoes to understand their value, and grasp their diversity as something enriching. From these assumptions it came to life Put yourself in my shoes, a gigantic shoe box where those who enter do not consume objects, but stories to listen to on headphones, wearing precisely the shoes of the teller donated for the occasion.
The installation, placed, on the occasion of Milan Fashion Week, in Piazza XXV Aprile, will involve the public in an exciting and exclusive experience where the user will be able to enter with the body and the heart in an intimate and collected moment, and leave it with a renewed awareness. 31 stories to live and listen to, donated by people from all over the world. Fondazione Empatia Milano brought to Milan and adapted the original English format of the event, creating an extraordinary work of selection and original production of twenty-one Italian stories of extraordinary everyday life, in addition to ten other equally exciting donations directly from the Empathy Museum in London.
All stories have as their common denominator the ability to promote the dialogue between different generations, break down indifference and raise awareness among a transversal public on various social issues. In fact, the project explores the so-called shared humanity: all those emotions that we feel regardless of age, gender and culture such as joy, pain, love, sadness.
The installation will be open to the public from 1pm to 8pm.
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