The experience of urban public space should be a response to the human need for connection. Dialogue is the urban furniture designed by designers and artists Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik with the intention of reviving the social function of city public space: living shared physical experiences.
Public space has always offered the opportunity to meet strangers, but while we can physically occupy the common space, our experiences often remain solitary. Especially in this historical moment, the need for contact and dialogue is further frustrated by the political and health climate and by the virtual bubbles of sociality created by social media.
Dialogue by Coryn Kempster Julia Jamrozik, is a circle of interwoven sound tubes, is a social infrastructure that provides a spark to initiate spontaneous and playful interactions in the form of conversations that vary in length and seriousness and connect individuals in the highly public space of the Eastman Reading Garden.
Through these artistic installations, simple, small dialogues and moments of unexpected connection are generated, allowing us to start relating to each other and talking with other community members who may or may not have opposing opinions to ours.
