GMU:Istanbul/EHH? the game

EHH? THE GAME

The concept of my project is based on knowing the unknwon. Ever since I moved to Germany I have been dealing with new cultures, people, languages and so on. The experience of being in a place where not only the language but also the the way the people move, react, eat, dance, express is different was and is still a big challenge to me.

Being surrunded by many different cultures and languages gave me the inspiration to develop the idea of this project. Istanbul to me was also unknown, so I took the challenge again, to try to understand their culture, dealing with a new language, people, and so on.

This time I thought of sharing my experience. I wanted the people who known place and culture to feel and interact with the unknown. This is how the idea of developing a "language" game came up.

Why Ehh?

Eh is a spoken interjection in many languages such as English, Armenian, Hokkien Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Persian, Portuguese, and Catalan and many others that is similar in meaning to "Excuse me," "Please repeat that" or "huh?". Even if you do not know any of these languages you can still understand the meaning of Eh?. This is the concept of the game, even if you can not speak some languages you can still recognize them either with sounds, movements or cultural characteristics.

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There is a story behind every video of the game. People from many countries of the world made a 10 seconds video where the only task was to say and express whatever they wanted to in their own language.

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Ehh? the Game was ready to go to Istanbul and be played for the first time by unknown people in their own known places.

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ISTANBUL

Before going to Istanbul

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