Enni-Kukka Tuomala creates inflatable chrome "echo chamber" for London Design Biennale
Finnish artist Enni-Kukka Tuomala has created an inflatable installation at the London Design Biennale that encourages visitors to step inside and reflect on their experiences together.
Titled Empathy Echo Chamber, the installation is a physically and emotionally reflective chamber created as a response to the growing global "empathy deficit".
Top: the chamber was made using a reflective TPU material. Above: it is inflated using an air exchange system
"The project started in late 2019, as a response to the growing global empathy deficit in order to challenge the individual echo chambers we increasingly live in," Enni-Kukka Tuomala told Dezeen.
"For the first time in human history, it is possible for us to live in a world wholly curated by ourselves, where everything we already know, think, feel and like is constantly reinforced and reflected back to us." Visitors are invited to sit inside
The installation invites two strangers to enter for a 15 minute period where they will be sat, two metres apart on glowing chairs to take part in a guided "empathy experience".
During the first two minutes of the experience, visitors look at each other in silence. After this, lights within the chamber will change and gesturing a conversation prompted by a series of questions that allow the visitors to exchange experiences, feelings and perspectives.
Two glowing stools were placed two-metres apart
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