Echo
Category
Spatial Experience Design
Speculative Design
Created
July 2025
Location
Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau Design Schau
Skills
Spatial Design
Speculative Storytelling
Immersive Installation Design
Speculative Campaign Design
Poster Design
Tools
Spatial Prototyping
Scenario Testing
Photoshop
Echo
Category
Spatial Experience Design,
Speculative Design
Created
July 2025,
Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau Design Schau
Skills
Spatial Design
Speculative Storytelling,
Immersive Installation Design,
Speculative Campaign Design,
Poster Design
Tools
Spatial Prototyping
Scenario Testing
Photoshop
Echo
Category
Spatial Experience Design
Speculative Design
Created
July 2025
Location
Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau Design Schau
Skills
Spatial Design
Speculative Storytelling
Immersive Installation Design
Speculative Campaign Design
Poster Design
Tools
Spatial Prototyping
Scenario Testing
Photoshop
“An immersive installation that explores how design can reawaken empathy through spatial, sensory, and participatory experience.”
“An immersive installation that explores how design can reawaken empathy through spatial, sensory, and participatory experience.”
Challenge
How design can engage with absence and loss, particularly the absence of empathy?
Who is Echo
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.
Echo is an underground campaign. It moves quietly from place to place as a mobile installation, inviting people to reconnect with emotions that have been suppressed. Through masks, and intimate encounters, it creates small moments of vulnerability and connection.
Challenge
How design can engage with absence and loss, particularly the absence of empathy?
Who is Echo
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.
Echo is an underground campaign. It moves quietly from place to place as a mobile installation, inviting people to reconnect with emotions that have been suppressed. Through masks, and intimate encounters, it creates small moments of vulnerability and connection.
They taught you to be still
To not feel
To turn away
But kindness survives in the reverberation
Empathy travels
Connection repeats
We return what they tried to erase
We move through silence
We pass between hands
We are Echo
The sound they cannot bury
The call you remember
Unnumb yourself
Feel
Reach
Respond
In memory of connection
In defiance of forgetting
We are ECHO
They taught you to be still
To not feel
To turn away
But kindness survives in the reverberation
Empathy travels
Connection repeats
We return what they tried to erase
We move through silence
We pass between hands
We are Echo
The sound they cannot bury
The call you remember
Unnumb yourself
Feel
Reach
Respond
In memory of connection
In defiance of forgetting
We are ECHO
