THE CHALLENGE

TMS was entrusted to create a unified digital art experience inside a large-scale public infrastructure project. The content needed to honor India’s artistic heritage while introducing new creative voices, innovative media approaches and narratives grounded in the region.
 
The program had to work within an airport’s functional constraints while remaining intuitive, emotional, and accessible to passengers from all backgrounds.

CONCEPT & DESIGN

The Digital Art Program is conceived as a journey through thematic zones positioned at key architectural thresholds inside the terminal. Each zone explores a different facet of Maharashtra and Mumbai including welcome, identity, memory, rhythm, cinema, landscape and aspiration.

TMS developed a spatial media system that weaves together film, digital art, interactive reflections, kinetic performance, sound design and sculptural media. Circular screens and light rings, inspired by the bindi, the forehead dot as a symbol of focus and presence in Indian visual culture, repeat throughout the terminal alongside motion elements and architectural surfaces to shape a consistent visual language.
Each zone was curated with the artists chosen for their relevance to the theme. Their work, combined with TMS’s spatial design and dramaturgy, forms a continuous story of arrival, transition and belonging.

EXPERIENCE

The Digital Art Program guides passengers through a sequence of distinct atmospheres that unfold naturally along their journey through the terminal. It begins with a welcoming gesture that sets the tone for the experience, followed by interactive reflections and digital impressions of Mumbai that help introduce the narrative of the airport.

As travelers move further, the environment becomes calm and reflective, offering visual moments inspired by Maharashtra’s rituals, coastline and rural life. This atmosphere then shifts into an energetic area shaped by dance, sound and the movement of the kinetic installation, which becomes a clear feature within the departure space. The terminal then opens into a cinematic zone that highlights Bollywood’s cultural influence through large-scale visual installations.

As passengers continue along the arrival route, they move through a sequence of circular displays that echo the “bindi” and follow Mumbai’s changing rhythm across the day. In the Immigration Hall, mirrored surfaces and layered visuals introduce different perspectives of the city. The experience ends with a forward-looking interpretation of Mumbai as travelers make their way into the public area beyond the terminal.