City Ragas: Building an Intercultural Dialogue between People

Authors:
Lipika Bansal
Affiliations:
Waag Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1012 CR
Venue:
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

City Ragas is a photo exchange game in which people in different cities are directly linked with each other through mobile phones and engage in a visual dialogue. Every team has the goal to create a storyline by exchanging pictures. This visual dialogue opens up avenues for cultural exchange and direct interaction enhances understanding of each other and forms the basis for a strong involvement between inhabitants of two possibly distant cities. The intercultural mobile game, City Ragas, has been developed by Waag Society (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) in collaboration with the media lab Sarai (New Delhi, India). It uses mobile technology to disclose the themes of cultural identity and heritage.