CHINA – INDIA – SWITZERLANDStudents: Jiabei He, Jessica Huang, Xiaofei Quian, Shao Qiushi, Yifan Li, Dan Mou, Xin Guan, Xi Wang, Quian Xu, Wen Chen, Chaitanya Vijay Doke, Vishakha Vijay Shidhaye, Ambuja Mittal, Rutul Shah, Nidhi Dharam Tekwani, Ankan Sengupta, Suraj Kiran Baadkar, Indrajeet Jagdish Deshmukh, Ananya Singh, Meghna Saha, Tao Lin, Luc Lindegger, Marielle Roth, Nils Loos, Camille Peiry, Francisco Peier, Flavio Vogel, Selin Bourquin, Lukas Nagler, Rodrigo Cortes GuadarramaFaculty: Francis Müller, Zurich University of the Arts, Jie Shen, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiao Mo, Tongji University, Shanghai, Aarti Srivastava, National Institute for Design, Ahmedabad, Meera Curam, Srishti, Bangalore, Flurina Gradin, Lakstein Fernandez, Yi Salomo

Universities: Tongji University, Shanghai, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, JJ Art School Mumbai, National Insitute of Design, Ahmedabad, Srishti Bangalore, Zurich University of the Arts

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN SUMMER SCHOOL 2013

At the check-in counter, passengers will get a little package with eight different cards as well as their boarding pass. These cards are printed with typical pictures of their own country. In the boarding area they have to look out for a player with another nationality. Once they find, they can play together and look for the right couples in the eight different categories. For playing the game, the boarding area has been equipped with little tables.

The person who finds the most couples is the winner. But in fact, both players are the winners, because they learnt to know the particularities from another country and had a nice experience while waiting for their flight. In addition, both players can take away all the cards they have found.

We started our project with the following two questions: How can we bring together particularities of different countries?How can we convince people with different cultures to interact with each other?

Everybody likes playing games. Therefore we decided to design a game to bring closer the particularities to people all over the world. We looked up for different games and found one, which is played all over the world: the „memory“-game. This game has a long history. So we tried to innovate this traditional game and putted it in a new context: the airport.

The airport is a small place with a lot of different cultures. Especially the boarding area, before getting in the airplane, often can be a very boring situation. So exactly there we want to convince people to play our game, called „GiG – Global Interaction Game“.

Ankan SenguptaChaitanya DokeJiabei HeLukas Nagler

Global Interaction Game

CapicornSteinbock

TigerSher

PandaDaxiongmao

Pictogram for the category

Color of the country

Picture with national particularities

English expression

Expression in the local language