Social Lab

Museum of Tolerance LA

Encourage social responsibility to act in the face of intolerance.

The Social Lab facilitates connections and provides local and global perspectives to build awareness of pressing issues, encouraging social responsibility to act in the face of intolerance. In this space individuals and groups safely explore shifting perspectives by moving through 16 interactive and linear experiences and media driven activities, each thematically building upon the next. The experiences were developed not to shy away from difficult conversations, or dictate a belief system, but aim to widen our perspectives and open up dialogue with each other. The experiences offers hope that we re-enter our communities with our hearts and minds more open than we entered.

SEDG Interactive Experience Honor 2022

Visitors watching POV projection at Museum of Tolerance in LA.

POV projection challenges visitors’ to see there’s always another side to every story and social issue.

Female character in a Preamble film shown looking off-frame into the distance pensively.

“Who Are We?,” a spoken word film speaks of our interconnectedness through struggles of social injustice and inequality.

Visitors interacting with activity tables and watching films projected on the museum wall.

Global Crisis Center offers understanding of issues on the environment, health, leadership, warfare, media and immigration.

Visitors sit and watch a film on the history of civil rights and social justice movements throughout history.

A rotation of films tells the history of the Civil Rights movement and contemporary struggles for social justice.

Visitors stand around a wall projection after interacting with Empathy Vending Machine.

The Empathy Vending Machines allow us to take action before moving through an experience in which our presence brings light into the darkness as we exit the exhibit.