You don't need to learn an interface!
"My first Mercedes-Benz" was the task in our Mercedes-Benz sponsored interior project in winter term 09/10 at Pforzheim University. So I asked myself: What is it like, being 18?
I came to the conclusion that from a sociological point of view you are somewhere in between.
The new freedom is somehow strangling, you are between adolescence and grown-up and in search for your own identity. Somewhere trans-local.
I projected this abeyance on the human body respectively on the driver of my Mercedes-Benz vehicle. In my interior concept you are not passively sitting on a seat operating an interface.
Because you don't need an interface.
My interior works as a body extension and the vehicle is controlled by intuitive human movements. These movements are supported by an active, elastic bio-complex and synchronized with the vehicle. You accelerate by moving forward and brake by moving backward. I somehow switched the functions of driver seat and steering. The driver puts his hands in glove-like handles attached to the center console (connecting the interior with the exterior) and moves the vehicle through his bodymotion.
Driving the vehicle feels like underwater dancing!
I developed this concept because I think it is important for an 18-year-old to not loose the reference to what mobility really is. If you are not moving yourself, your vehicle won't move either. The vehicle as a human prosthesis. As today, but in a way that is not reducing our physical mobility while trying to keep up with our mental one.
The actual shape of my interieur is orientated at the spatial acquisition of the human body.
