Dialogue Social Enterprise (DSE) creates exhibitions and workshops in either complete darkness – “Dialogue in the Dark” – or absolute silence – “Dialogue in Silence” -, facilitated by blind or deaf guides and trainers. In those environments, the blind or deaf guides and trainers are the high potentials , while non-disabled people are confronted with their limits. This role reversal and the encounter with disabled talents in a highly immersive space are the keys to enhance empathy and to shift ignorance/ discrimination onto interest/ respect. Dialogue-Programs help overcome disability-related prejudices, while empowering disabled people through employment.
News
24/11/2011: We are proud to share a new video: Andreas Heinecke @TEDxSao Paulo: 23 years in the “dark business”! Enjoy!
14/09/2011: We are hiring! Our team in Hamburg is searching for support! If you are interested in becoming part of a global social business and international team, don´t miss out on our newly updated career opportunities section!
25/08/2011: Dialogue in the Dark exhibition has made a big hit in New York City at it’s grand opening on August 20th at the South Street Seaport!. The exhibition has been brought to the big Apple by Premier Exhibitions who has already had a permanent exhibition in Atlanta. The media was completely blown away! Here is the New York Times article “Darkness Visible and Palpable
For more information on tickets and details of the exhibition, click here.05/08/2011: Dialogue in the Dark exhibition made its first appearance in the African
continent when it was opened to the public on August 3, 2011 at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. The exhibition has been brought to South Africa
by the South African National Council for the Blind. The exhibition was running to full capacity within 10 days of its opening last weekend!
For more information on tickets and details of the exhibition opening, click here.01/07/2011: Dr Andreas Heinecke has been appointed as Honorary Professor of Social Business at the EBS Business School as part of the Danone Endowed Chair of Social Business.The Chair, unique in its kind in Germany, will advance research in the field of social business and develop new entrepreneurial models for application in industrialized countries.
28/06/2011: Andreas Heinecke, founder of Dialogue Social enterprise, receives the special Deutscher Gründerpreis award for innovative business ideas. The Deutscher Gründerpreis is the most prestigious award for outstanding entrepreneurs in Germany
18/04/2011: True to the motto “How social is Social Media?” the Dialogue Social Enterprise team Daniela Dimitrova, Stefan Wilhelm, Annkatrin Meyer, Gideon Kletzka presented in collaboration with Hannes Jaehnert (www.hannes-jaehnert.de) a session on barrier-free web communication at the re:campaign (a conference on online campaigning in Berlin). Here is the link to the documentation of the session on accessibility.
05/04/2011: Congratulations Dialogue Training Center Munich! For over two years now, our friends at Allianz Global Investors have been running Dialogue in the Dark and Dialogue in Silence workshops. Thank you for the wonderful cooperation and we hope to continue working together for more than two years to come! For more information please visit Allianz Company News.
28/03/2011: Breaking News: Dialogue in the Dark Milan is prolonged until 2013! Mille Grazie for the wonderful cooperation and “in bocca al lupo” for the upcoming years!
17/03/2011: News from Austria: The Dialogue in the Dark Exhibition in Vienna was awarded the DiversCity award by the Viennese Economic Chamber. Our Viennese friends generate wide-spread impact, even beyond Austrian borders: a Slovenian news portal has published an elaborate blog post about their wonderful exhibition.
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