Context

With Echo I explored how design can engage with absence and loss, particularly the absence of empathy.

Challenge

How can design awaken emotion without directly instructing or explaining it?

Story

A world where empathy has been systematically restricted. The state realized that when people care for one another, they become harder to control. Acts of empathy were redefined as weakness, gradually suppressed, and ultimately censored. Emotional expression became suspicious, and numbness replaced human warmth.