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 what is it like, BEING 18?
I came to the conclusion that from a sociological point of view you are somewhere IN BETWEEN.
The gained 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.
There is NO INTERFACE.
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. Acceleration and braking are done by moving forward and 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 a chance for an 18-year-old to not loose the reference to what physical 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 mobility.
THE ACTUAL SHAPE OF THE INTERIEUR IS ORIENTATED AT THE SPATIAL ACQUISITION OF THE HUMAN BODY.
