A vehicle for design futures: exploring the experience of driving in the here-and-now to inform an inclusive future’
Emilie Glazer, Jo-Anne Bichard, Patrick Langdon, Michael D. Bradley, Merih Kunar, Jean Jacques Loeillet, Ellie Woodridge · Archive of research processes and output produced by RCA (Royal College of Art) · 2015
In a project between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art in London and the Cambridge Department of Engineering, we have explored the space of the possible for the future inclusive human machine interface in vehicle design. A collaboration between anthropologists, psychologists, engineers, vehicle designers and an illustrator, understandings of people’s experience of driving in the here-and-now became a scaffold to imagine potential technologies. The process involved a constant interplay across temporalities, disciplines, and perspectives, and so informs the discussion on the methodological and theoretical implications that emerge from ethnographies of the possible.