spacetime
Interactive Experience - Video Walkthrough presented here
Final BFA project
When I visited the Charminar for the first time to film my creative sample for my collegeapplications, I was frankly ashamed that despite living in the city of Hyderabad for almost three years then, I hadn’t seen it sooner. Visiting monuments that are hundreds of years old is the most viable form of time travel present at this point in time. Now, at the end of my college career, the virtual exploration of the Charminar and its hypothesized future space brings this connection full circle.
The sheer amount of history that is contained within architectural wonders such as the Charminar is something to be shared with the world. Hence, my project presents a creation of an interactive environment where you have the opportunity to experience these lesser known stories and the rich history behind them. There are so many discrepancies in education about the same topics around the world. Some of us don’t know that Japan was a colonial power, while the other half doesn’t know about the genocide of millions and geographical displacement of a million others in India.
If an interactive experience that anyone can experience from around the globe, maybe around the solar system one day, can somehow broaden someone’s horizons of just what the world encompasses, create in their mind an awareness of these kinds of stories and the experiences of these people that inhabit this same world and be better for it, then I am content with what I have created.
This is what I seek to do with spacetime – provide a rich interactive narrative that opens up a person’s horizons to increase an awareness of the similarities in our differences My view of this potential future might seem a bit grim but is rooted in the seeds of what has already begun sprouting for what the future might come to be. A future where government surveillance is rampant, even more obvious and normalized and one where progress is signified only by urbanization in the name of development, where history is left behind and forgotten. So now you are stretched between two extreme moments in time, the distant future and the very very distant past – while you endure the present in real time.