Welcome to the Empathy Echo Chamber, in the Finnish Pavilion at the London Design Biennale.
The term "echo chamber" has come to exemplify polarisation and isolation in the information age. Finland’s Pavilion challenges this notion, in a moment when we are looking for ways to reconnect with each other and re-enter public life.
Designed by Enni-Kukka Tuomala, the "Empathy Echo Chamber" is an inflatable installation and a reflective space – both literally and emotionally. Inside, visitors are encouraged to reflect on their experiences and perspectives together and respond to each other through empathy. Unlike the echo chamber which only reflects back what we already know and think, the "Empathy Echo Chamber" is a positive and communal echo chamber of exchange where participants are prompted to step outside themselves to really see and be seen by each other.
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The experience lasts 15 minutes and is for 2 people only. The experience is designed to be shared with a stranger, and we encourage you to make your booking for 1 person only, and leave the other available booking within your entry time for someone you don’t know.
Please be on time. If you have not arrived within 5 minutes of your allocated time, your place will be reallocated. Please also be mindful that your LDB ticket allows you to enter the West Wing, where the Finnish Pavilion is located, only at a specific time assigned to you at the moment of booking. Please make sure you make your booking for the Empathy Echo Chamber within your given West Wing timeslot.
Walk-ins are also available. Please check the schedule below for daily experience entry times.
Experience entry times
11.00: London Design Biennale opens
11.30: Booking
12: Walk in
12.30: Walk in
13: Booking
13.30: Walk in
14: Booking
15: Walk in
15.30: Booking
16: Walk in
16.30: Booking
17: Walk in
17.30: Booking
18: Walk in
18.30: Booking
19: Walk in
19.30: London Design Biennale closes
Covid-19 safety information
- The experience lasts max. 15 minutes.
- Masks must be worn at all times.
- Physical distancing guidelines [2m distance] must be adhered to at all times. Inside the experience you will be seated at a 2m distance from each other.
- All surfaces will be sanitized before each new entry into the experience.
- Our air exchange unit circulates fresh outside air in and out of the experience continuously. The air inside the experience is exchanged every 180 seconds. Additional information on the air exchange system is available. Please ask the vigilator in the Finnish Pavilion for more details.
- Contact tracing is in place.
- Short Health and Safety briefing will be given before entry into the experience.
