ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy
  • Designing for Empathy®
  • Events & Resources
  • Empathy Summit 2021
  • Empathy Summit 2022
  • Empathy Summit 2023
  • About Us
  • Contact
ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy
  • Designing for Empathy®
  • Events & Resources
  • Empathy Summit 2021
  • Empathy Summit 2022
  • Empathy Summit 2023
  • About Us
  • Contact

ONE vision

4 platforms for engagement

ONE empathy network

ONE empathy network

4 platforms for engagement

ONE empathy network

4 platforms for engagement

4 platforms for engagement

4 platforms for engagement

multiple intersections

4 platforms for engagement

4 platforms for engagement

About ONE & Designing for Empathy®

Designing for Empathy® ...Because there is no Other, and we are One.

ONE’s journey began with the Empathy-Building Through Museums Initiative in 2014. The annual Designing for Empathy®Summit, Designing for Empathy® Workshops & Designing for Empathy® Consulting Services are integral to ONE's vision to reach beyond the walls of museums with a timely and a specific goal to help shape our culture around empathy, while positioning cultural institutions as incubators of empathy-building through cross-sectors collaboration an innovation. Designing for Empathy® services are curated and organized by Elif M. Gokcigdem, PhD, a historian of Islamic art, a museums scholar and the author of Fostering Empathy Through Museums (2016) and Designing for Empathy (2019), who recently founded: Elif M. Gokcigdem, LLC, d.b.a. ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy in Virginia, U.S.A. | Contact: info@oneempathynetwork.com

About the founder

Elif M. Gokcigdem, PhD

Elif (she/her) is the founding president of ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy, and the editor of Fostering Empathy Through Museums (2016), and Designing for Empathy (2019), which are considered reference books in empathy-building through museums, a new field of inquiry she pioneered in 2014. Elif Gokcigdem developed Designing for Empathy® as an intellectual framework, and an international platform for multidisciplinary, multisector, and multicultural collaborations to deepen our understanding of empathy, and to develop strategies, scholarship, and empathy-building experiences that consider the wellbeing of the whole —all of humanity and our planet. In 2018, Elif curated and co-chaired the world’s first summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion through Museums with His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India. Elif grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, studying history of art, Islamic art and mysticism, and later, museum studies in the U.S.. Elif’s 30 years of professional experience includes academia, museums, and a  corporation where she established and led major strategic international partnerships in arts, culture, museums, and biodiversity conservation around the world.

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  • Designing for Empathy®
  • Events & Resources
  • Empathy Summit 2021
  • Empathy Summit 2022
  • Empathy Summit 2023
  • About Us
  • Contact

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