Designing for Empathy

8th Annual Designing for Empathy Summit and Workshops

2025 Theme: Kinship

October 23-24, 2025 | 1–5 pm
John E. Reeves Great Hall

The School of Graduate Studies and department of Exhibition and Experience Design invite you to attend the 8th annual Designing for Empathy summit and workshops. Sessions feature a diversity of transdisciplinary, multicultural experts and practitioners of empathy in the arts and sciences. The event is an incubator for empathy-building, presenting effective, relevant, and meaningful experiences and perspectives that foster empathy toward the interconnectedness of all humanity and our planet.

Please RSVP to Brenda Cowan at [email protected]. 

Presented by the Organization of Networks for Empathy

Sponsors are Glencairn Museum, Advancing Conservation Through Empathy for Wildlife, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, and Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo