Project Name: Identity Stories

Brief
Chronicle of a  life of everyday Indians and their journey - showing how their identities and culture emerge through inclusion rather than exclusion.

Design Process
In-depth interviews
Mapping olfactory interactions to individual locations and an overarching narrative
Audio Narrative exploring identity of contemporary indians that emerge with mobility and migration
Interaction Design
Lasercutting
Manufacturing Scent Dispenser, Microcontroller and Sensor Programming

Key Insights & Value
This interactive  biographical installation explains the stories of its two protagonists through mapping their experience into scents. It talks about how new identities emerge with mobility and new distinct patterns that are created, It is a dialog of identities in today’s globalized world  where we hold more than one, articulated in smell and voice of the protagonist. It further lets the audience experience a culture and its distinct smells and interact with it, making sense of that culture through real people’s stories.

read more:https://www.sniffingoutthedifferences.com/identity-stories-1