ZOR SE BOLO: Interactive installations for Airport, providing a linguistic tour of New Delhi

Today, New Delhi with more than 10,000 people speaking an estimate of 122 languages [1], has led it to enter into a new kind of multilingual anarchy. The conversational language has disintegrated into an array of jargons, idioms, acronyms, abbreviations, and symbols. ZOR SE BOLO presents 5 of the most commonly spoken jargons of the capital, (“Thoda adjust karlo”, “Bhai kuch jugaad laga”, “Tu jaanta hai mera baap kaun hai?”, “Tum toh bade log ho”, “No Problem ji”), in the form of interactive installations to be displayed at the Delhi International Airport (T3 Terminal) with a view of providing a linguistic tour of the capital. Two of the design concepts (“No Problem ji” and “Tu jaanta hai mera baap kaun hai?”) were successfully prototyped and exhibited. The concept was achieved in 3 main phases: literature research & analysis, design and implementation. “Touch” and “Speech” were used as interaction mediums to design an experience such that people relate to the individuals and their lingo through the audio they hear after triggering the installation. Body language / gestures of the mannequins in the installations becomes a metaphor to reach out and establish contact between people of different tongues, from different cultures.