Mission & Vision of Dialoghaus
Since its opening on April 1, 2000
Dialoghaus has welcomed over 1.8 million people. Every year, more than 100,000 visitors attend the exhibitions Dialog in the Dark, Dialog in Silence and other dialog formats, such as Dialog with Time or the Dialog Lab are.
Right in the middle is the name of the stations in the Dialog Lab in the foyer of the Dialoghaus. Visitors of all ages and especially educational institutions are invited to join in the thinking and contribute their ideas. Even though inclusion seems to be firmly anchored in society by now, the question “Who does inclusion affect?” is more burning than ever today and more important to many more people than it seems.
The Dialog Lab is made possible with funding from the Deutsche Fernsehlotterie.
What is the core of Dialog formats?
Dialog exhibitions and workshops are platforms for encounters. They convey a new and unusual perspective. You experience something new through a role reversal and through an encounter with something completely unexpected.
The encounter on unfamiliar terrain with other, possibly unfamiliar visitors who experience similar things, and the obvious competence of the guide of the exhibition, who also doesn’t correspond to your brought along ideas, causes a dialogue and a confrontation with your own prejudices.
In our exhibitions and workshops we merge edutainment, knowledge enhancement, learning experiences about inclusion and diversity to a unique experience with a longlasting impact.
Dialoghaus Hamburg is a non-for-profit social enterprise
We currently employ about 80 people. Before Corona, Dialoghaus employed about 120. 60 percent of the employees are deaf or visually impaired. All employees, whether with or without disabilities, make an active contribution to an inclusive society. Indirectly, our visitors also contribute to the participation of people with disabilities in society. They enable us to offer income and recognition to people who are still often denied this basic right due to prejudice and exclusion.
Our mission is to aim at more inclusion and diversity in society.
Prejudices and barriers are mainly in people’s heads. In order to break them down, we run our exhibitions and workshops.
We want to make people think. For more inclusion and more empathy for blind, deaf and elderly people. Despite many positive changes on the political level, participation in public life or inclusive education, many people still do not have the same opportunities to lead a self-determined life.
The ultimate goal of dialogue experiences
is to bridge the gaps between different groups in our society. We provide platforms for debate, encountering the unfamiliar, dialogue, understanding the beauty of diversity and the need for inclusion.
These values are offered without a moral address or a directive. Visitors do not need a theoretical background. Our formats offer space for transformation, for an emotional experience in a real exchange with other people.
