Virtual-reality projects are trying to offer a new perspective on what it’s like to experience conditions such as deafness, migraines, and depression. Virtual projects aimed at cultivating empathy for those with medical conditions have been …

QUESTION: My first-grader doesn’t seem empathetic at all.Last night at dinner, he happily mentioned how when he was introducing himself in a group, his thing that others didn’t know about him was that he hated his older brother. His poor br…

Hunger in Los Angeles is what writer and director Nonny de la Peña calls “immersive journalism.” The concept is simple: place individuals into a virtual recreation of a given moment in time, allowing them to experience — and draw conc…

Architect, watercolorist and author Sim Van Der Ryn has been pushing for ecological design for decades, now he calling for people to go deeper in his new book ‘Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting People, Nature, and Self.’Q: Why does empathic de…