Backstage Talks

Backstage Talks is a magazine of casual but in-depth dialogues on design and business. Our decisions shape and influence this complex world—to have a chance to make the right ones, we need to talk. This issue explored empathy. How does it influence our creative professions, our private lives or even the built environment? What do other creatives do to avoid cynicism? Can stories really make us more empathetic? And what can we do when we become overwhelmed by all the injustices of this complex world? Does having empathy for ourselves make us have more for others, too?