 Helo. Fel y gallwn i'n mynd i. Fel y gallwn i Paul. Fel y gallwn i'n mynd i ag i bynnag yng Nghymru. Mae yw ddim yn y lle bwysig ystod yn y ddwyledag llwy STEM, fe hel o économiaeth gyda'r wybodaethau ar wath mewn ymddangos. Ac fe allwn i'r artist hon o'r argyfgoret yw ac rwy'n i bwrdd i'w ymddylfa i fryd o'r trofnogaeth ac yr adeiladau a'r rhan fydd. I don't work in the art market. I work out of the gallery in the theatre scenario, and I work on the streets, on allotments, on bridges, in hospitals, on rooftops, in derelict buildings, and I work in a very participatory way, so that the people who come to experience the work are active agents in the creation of that work alongside teams of people that might include anthropologists, doctors, economists and so on. Foragers, farmers, whoever seems to be appropriate to bring together to make the project happen. I'm very passionate about public space, about bringing people together, about conversation. I create projects. This is a project called Feast on the Bridge, where we close one of the bridges over the River Thames, and 35,000 people come and sit down and eat together in a sort of reimagined harvest supper in the heart of the city, and this is a participatory fruit salad toss with waste food, fruit that was destined for landfill. I also am interested in the cultural space of the museum, and I now am the director of this empathy museum project, but before that I used to run a project called the Museum of, which was about questioning what museums are all about and informing decisions about what happened to the future of a particular building. We invited people to make museums about themselves in response to big national museums being about a kind of national identity. I've got to go quite quickly, but 100,000 people made little museums about themselves, so the work's kind of participatory, as I said. It's also quite often about revealing something that's hidden, so this is part of a documentary I made for Channel 4 about the amount that the average British person consumes in a lifetime, and this is, I made 72 installations, and this is 15,632 pints of milk that the average British person would consume in a lifetime. So, I got approached by a guy called Roman Krishnaric, who's a writer and a philosopher, and he has written a book about empathy, and he asked me to work with him to create something experiential from some of the ideas that he is exploring in his book. So, I started looking at empathy and why empathy is important and why empathy is important, particularly now. The word empathy comes from a German word, which appeared in German philosophy and aesthetics at the end of the 19th century, and the word is einfulung, I might have said that wrong, I'm not very good at German, but it means feeling into, and it was about feeling into art and nature. And it seems to be so much about aesthetics, but I kind of quite like that, the idea that it's something active, and it's something about now moving in to take an imaginative leap to see the world through somebody else's eyes and to think about viewing the world from another person's perspective. And I think in a kind of post Brexit Trump world with rising racism, xenophobia, all the problems that we are facing, that its empathy is a really powerful and important tool, not only in terms of global challenges, which I do think it's important for that, but also in personal transformation. So, I think it's like an incredibly powerful tool in everything from understanding your own partner who's not seeing it, like you're seeing it, to understanding the people who've moved in next door, to restorative justice, to issues around how we design things, how we create services for people to big conflict and world challenges. So, it's also important, I think, because we're facing an empathy deficit, that's Barack Obama calls it an empathy deficit, and levels globally in empathy are declining. And as a result of increasing isolation, people living on their own, a decline in public space, a rise in free market economics, there's all sorts of reasons why this is happening, and we might think that we're more globally connected through things like internet, Facebook, social media and so on, but actually we tend to surround ourselves with people who are very, very similar to us and don't test our assumptions about our values or opinions. There's a confirmation bias thing so that we actually, our work circles and our social circles and our online circles are very, very small and tiny. So, to respond to this, we took some of the ideas from Roman's book about what makes a highly empathic person. I'll just run through them very quickly, but switching on your empathic brain is a kind of response to also a neuroscientific development which has shown that actually we're wired for empathy and empathy is something that we can learn. It's not just in us or not in us, we can learn it very much like riding a bike and we need to practice it. The second thing is about making an imaginative leap into seeing the world through somebody else's eyes, seeing something from someone else's point of view. Seeking experiential adventures so not staying within your comfort zone but making a leap out there into the world to meet people that perhaps you wouldn't normally meet, have experiences that maybe you wouldn't normally have. Practising the craft of conversation and that's not about talking at people, that's also about listening to people and we're incredibly bad at listening and I'd quite like to do a project about just radical listening actually. Travel in your armchair so that even if you're at home or you're unable to get out, you can travel into worlds through literature, through music, through film, through TV documentaries that you can take this leap into other people's lives and worlds through that. And Roman talks about inspiring a revolution so spreading empathy and the practice of empathy. The Empathy Museum is imagined as an alternative high street so it's an antidote to the idea of the universal panacea of shopping. And instead of coming out and having a consumption experience, you come out and you have a human experience. So we've started with a shoe shop and a library and eventually we will have a travel agency, hairdressers, a cafe and so on. We have three projects at the moment, we have a library project, a shoe shop and we run a series of human libraries where instead of borrowing a book you borrow a person for a conversation. But the first thing that we did was create a shoe shop and I listened to a lot of people talking about what they thought empathy was and most people either describe it as seeing the world through somebody else's eyes or walking in their shoes. And there's this old Native American proverb, never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Oh, it's moccasins. And so we built a giant shoe box inside an old shipping container and we started off in Vauxhall in London, which is an incredibly changing area at the moment. And we collected stories from 30 people who lived or worked locally and they're everybody from a gardener at the American Embassy to a drag queen to a divorce lawyer. They're people from more different walks of life. And we collected with a team of audio producers their shoes and their stories. And we call ourselves a museum because we house a collection and the collection grows. So everywhere we go we collect more stories and more shoes and we travel internationally. And all you know about the person is their name and the size of their feet and you come in and you get fitted with the shoes that belong to a stranger. And they could be anybody that there's from a sewer worker to a sex worker to a refugee to a Vietnam vet to surgeons. There's all sorts of different people in there. But they're quite often people with the story to tell and they might be people that you might not come across in your everyday life. And then you go out and you take a walk in someone else's shoes whilst you're listening to them telling you their story. And it's really powerful because you're on a journey on your own. You're on a physical journey. You're on an emotional journey. And there's something about wearing somebody else's shoes. You look down and they're not your feet. They don't look like your feet. And it's a bit like kind of putting on a mask or something like that. It feels very intimate and very powerful and people have amazing experiences doing it. And then we have a kind of social space where you come back and you can have a conversation about the experience that you've just had. But we've been travelling all over the place. We've got about 120 stories now and we have a selection of them that we're showing in the cafe here. So in any of the breaks or at lunchtime or after it's over, please do come and we'll fit you with a pair of shoes and you can go out into the streets of Brighton and walk in the shoes of a stranger and listen to their story. That's a sewer worker and someone who's a professional roller derby girl. And we've also got a model where we work on a particular area. So we worked with an organisation called the Health Foundation and we did a version of a mile in my shoes where we just worked with stories from the NHS. So we worked across the UK and collected stories from everyone from a prison psychologist to a hospital porter to a surgeon. And we then showed this work with the Health Foundation most lately, a couple of weeks ago in the House of the Parliament. And the idea was that policy makers would walk in the shoes of those people who deliver the NHS. So that's a kind of another model and perhaps a powerful way of people understanding what it might be like to be working in the same area. But there were surgeons who walked in the shoes of someone who's a receptionist in the GP who just went, I had no idea. And I think it kind of puts those people in connection with one another and it's quite transformational in terms of their experience and their understanding of how the other person is operating and living their life and working. We asked people to leave behind something about what it feels like to have walked in the shoes and to feed back on the journey. And we are off to all over the world with it and doing various other versions around homelessness and around refugees. So please do come and have a go and thank you very much.