This is a project about empathy. Empathy is important today and always, but especially today, and Clinton Hill artist Ekene Ijeoma thinks there’s not enough of it in our society. Everyone looking down at their phone every spare second of the day probably isn’t helping.

So he created Look Up.

It’s an app for Android that encourages people to look up from their phones when they reach an intersection. Two artistically designed eyes pop up on the home screen of your phone, reminding you there are other people around. Or, if you’re in an app, you get a push notification reminding you to look up. Even if the phone’s in your pocket you get a quick buzz.

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