MINI reveals first look of the future travel ahead of major exhibition
26 Aug 2014|1,317 views
MINI reveals the extraordinary vision of future travel by six cutting-edge designers ahead of a pioneering exhibition launching at London Design Festival, from the 17th to the 21st September.
Earlier this year, MINI teamed up with Dezeen and the U.K.'s most progressive young designers to explore how design and technology could transform the way we travel in years to come.
The following images and videos (via the respective hyperlinks) are an insight into their inspiration and an exciting first peek at their work before the final pieces are unveiled at the exhibition, 'Frontiers - The Future of Mobility'.
Body Architect Lucy McRae invites visitors to designjunction to take part in an interactive performance, in which their body is vacuum-packed (banner) to prepare it for space travel.
Inspired by artists working with NASA, McRae's installation will consist of a series of pods, which visitors will be invited to step inside to prepare their bodies for the rigours of a zero-gravity environment.
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's experimental design will investigate genetically engineered cars grown from living materials. She suggests that synthetic biological cars could evolve and mutate as they are used and repaired so they become better adapted to their environments, just like living organisms.
Designer and film maker Keiichi Matsuda's research explores the possibilities of augmented reality, which could be used to superimpose digital traffic information and road signage onto the physical world. Currently augmented reality is limited to using a physical interface such as a tablet or a headset like Google Glass. Matsuda believes that is about to change.
In a future of fully automated, computer-controlled vehicles, airbags and crumple zones will be redundant, British artist, designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox suggests. So why not build an intricate stained-glass car? The safe, driverless cars of the future will free up designers to create radically different car designs, ones that you can just sit in and sleep while it drives you to your destination.
British-Colombian artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez reimagines the familiar dashboard bobblehead as a personal, 3D-printed driving companion used to communicate with our cars. The idea is inspired by the practice of sticking small figurines onto car dashboards to bring good luck.
Architect Pernilla Ohrstedt will design MINI's exhibition space at designjunction and showcase her take on the future of travel within it. Pernilla predicts our cars will soon be able to collect detailed 3D scans of the world around us as we drive - and will explore how we might use this to create real time 3D maps of our cities.
MINI reveals the extraordinary vision of future travel by six cutting-edge designers ahead of a pioneering exhibition launching at London Design Festival, from the 17th to the 21st September.
Earlier this year, MINI teamed up with Dezeen and the U.K.'s most progressive young designers to explore how design and technology could transform the way we travel in years to come.
The following images and videos (via the respective hyperlinks) are an insight into their inspiration and an exciting first peek at their work before the final pieces are unveiled at the exhibition, 'Frontiers - The Future of Mobility'.
Body Architect Lucy McRae invites visitors to designjunction to take part in an interactive performance, in which their body is vacuum-packed (banner) to prepare it for space travel.
Inspired by artists working with NASA, McRae's installation will consist of a series of pods, which visitors will be invited to step inside to prepare their bodies for the rigours of a zero-gravity environment.
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's experimental design will investigate genetically engineered cars grown from living materials. She suggests that synthetic biological cars could evolve and mutate as they are used and repaired so they become better adapted to their environments, just like living organisms.
Designer and film maker Keiichi Matsuda's research explores the possibilities of augmented reality, which could be used to superimpose digital traffic information and road signage onto the physical world. Currently augmented reality is limited to using a physical interface such as a tablet or a headset like Google Glass. Matsuda believes that is about to change.
In a future of fully automated, computer-controlled vehicles, airbags and crumple zones will be redundant, British artist, designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox suggests. So why not build an intricate stained-glass car? The safe, driverless cars of the future will free up designers to create radically different car designs, ones that you can just sit in and sleep while it drives you to your destination.
British-Colombian artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez reimagines the familiar dashboard bobblehead as a personal, 3D-printed driving companion used to communicate with our cars. The idea is inspired by the practice of sticking small figurines onto car dashboards to bring good luck.
Architect Pernilla Ohrstedt will design MINI's exhibition space at designjunction and showcase her take on the future of travel within it. Pernilla predicts our cars will soon be able to collect detailed 3D scans of the world around us as we drive - and will explore how we might use this to create real time 3D maps of our cities.
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