Mohsen Saraji – Janab Khan Theme Park Project Designer
When I presented the idea of designing Janab Khan Theme Park to Mohammad Bahrani, I entered the design process with these concepts: creating an experiential, media, entertainment, and identity-based world where the audience can simultaneously play, learn, participate, and interact directly with the brand. This park is not just a collection of entertaining attractions, but a multi-layered space of experience and narrative that represents the personality and values of Janab Khan in all its dimensions.
In designing this theme park, I considered four main aspects as the intellectual foundation: media, entertainment, economic, and identity aspects. These aspects shape the scientific and strategic framework of space design, the path of experience, and the narrative.
Media: The Park as an Interactive Platform
Janab Khan, as a cultural symbol and multimedia brand, has the potential to become an interactive and multi-dimensional media. The theme park elevates this capacity to the physical and digital levels:
Brand Narrative Representation: Each zone and path represents a multi-layered story of Mr. Khan’s personality and identity. The audience becomes an active player in the story by directly participating in the narrative.
Multi-sensory Experience: Light, sound, color, texture, and digital elements expose the audience to active and multi-level interaction, transforming the brand from a linear media level to a living and interactive platform.
Entertainment and Recreation: Engineering the Emotional Experience
The main goal of design is to create multi-sensory and memorable experiences:
Emotional Experience Paths: The path of movement and zones engage the audience in an emotional and meaningful journey with lighting, color, and visual and digital elements.
Climax and Surprise Moments: The design of pause points and interactive activities creates excitement, surprise, and active participation, elevating the park experience beyond a simple visit.
Active participatory experience: The audience is not just a spectator, but a shaping agent of the narrative, and this interactive experience conveys learning and entertainment to them at the same time.
Economy: Creating sustainable value
In addition to entertainment, Mr. Khan’s theme park is a strategic economic tool for the brand and the creative industry:
Generate a revenue stream: Ticket sales, branded products and souvenirs provide direct economic opportunities.
Networking and collaboration: The park space allows creatives and investors to develop their business and branding experiences.
Strengthen social capital and loyalty: The memories created, active audience participation and personal experience increase brand loyalty and customer lifetime value.
Identity: Establishing the brand’s personality and values
The theme park transforms Mr. Khan’s personality and values into a living and tangible identity:
Brand embodiment: Design elements, narratives, and games represent the brand’s personality and tone in a multi-level, tangible world.
Creating belonging and memory: Multi-sensory and interactive experiences create an emotional connection with the brand and turn the audience into an unconscious brand ambassador.
Promoting cultural identity: Mr. Khan’s humor, values, and symbolic behaviors are reflected in the park design to establish the brand’s social and cultural identity.
The scientific necessity of theme park design
The design of Mr. Khan’s theme park is not a mere entertainment project, but a scientific, experience-oriented, and identity-based space that simultaneously:
Turns the brand into an active and interactive medium.
Creates emotional, entertaining, and memorable experiences.
It creates economic value and sustainable opportunities for the brand and the creative industry.
It establishes the personality, values, and identity of the brand in the minds of the audience.
Simply put, Mr. Khan’s world is different because every element of it is aligned with the scientific principles of experience design, multi-layered narrative, and brand identity, taking the audience on a meaningful, multi-sensory journey that goes beyond mere entertainment.