If design is a crossing between many professions (engineering,
marketing, trading, art), the designer is also destined to be a formal polyglot.
By searching to intertwine various formal languages, he is able to give birth to
new things.
The study of the intertwining of languages, which is a question
as foundational as unexplorable completely, seemed to Sylvain Merlin to be
essential as the first unavoidable act for a future designer.
Therefore, he
tried to imagine what result would give the mingling of two universal
“languages” such as music and car. The result is Trafik
Jam.
 Imagine
our world with Jazz music scores instead of roads. Imagine a world where each
car driver would be like a musician taking part in a Jam cession. Imagine an
urban environment that would react like the LEDs on an equalizer, or like
the skin of a drum, to the improvisations led by these meetings. Imagine all our
city’s roundabouts as huge stages where the artists-on-wheels would
perform.
From these poetic hypotheses, Sylvain has designed a fractal system
that, from the street to the entire city, transforms each driver into the
improviser of a reactive urban environment. At the centre of roundabouts, true
urban vinyls, sensual sculptures take life in infinite combinations according to
the cars passing by, and of their drivers’
identities. |
