echo:us

At the heart of the project is the challenge that fast-paced public discourse often lacks the time and space for in-depth engagement with others. echo:us addresses this issue in the form of a publicly accessible intervention that serves as a catalyst for constructive exchange.

As a pop-up installation, echo:us flexibly engages with public spaces and invites passers-by to engage in mindful exchange. Two visitors at a time go through different attitudes of curiosity, assumption, perception of others and self-perception by means of narrative audio inputs. The impulses strengthen the relationship level in the run-up to a possible conversation by promoting empathy and encouraging reflection on one's own thought patterns. echo:us also makes individual scope for action visible and sharpens awareness of one's own responsible role in society. The installation connects different social contexts and broadens the perspective from ‘I’ to ‘we.’

echo:us aims to gain insight through experience and invites visitors to become aware of the stories, experiences and attitudes that other people bring with them. In a time of fragmented, often heated discourse, echo:us represents a place of re-centring: a deliberately slow medium that creates social bonds through shared experience.