Combined power comsumption: 13.0 kWh/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km*
Stuttgart/Milan. smart
has revolutionised urban mobility and pioneered innovative services
that stand for joie de vivre in the city. The same now goes for
night-life, too: with the smart mobile disco, the
brand has developed an unusual workstation for DJs – with DJ booth,
mixer console, fog machine and various light effects. The show car was
created by product designer Konstantin Grcic. JBL, smart's
long-standing audio partner, provided the professional sound equipment.
The unusual smart was one of the highlights at the preview of "Night
Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today" at the Vitra Design Museum
in Weil am Rhein on 16 March. The exhibition will run until 9 September
2018.
The show car will make its next public appearance at a smart
party during the "Salone di Mobile Milano" (17 to 22 April), the
world's largest furniture trade fair, which draws some 350,000 visitors
each year: a smart party featuring the smart mobile disco will take
place in the centre of Milan on 17 April, beginning at 7 p.m.
"The
smart mobile disco is a great symbol of the smart brand's links with
club culture – a scene that draws people together, forges bonds and
brings joy," says smart boss Dr Annette Winkler. "The many different
facets of club culture all embrace a departure from given norms, a
different way of looking at things and the courage to try out something
new. This is what links the club culture with smart. Visionary
thinking and a passion to keep questioning the status quo encapsulate
smart's aims and its essential attitude."
The smart mobile disco is based on a smart EQ fortwo (combined power consumption: 13.0-12.9 kWh/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km[1]).
The interior now accommodates the equipment for operating the lifting
platform on which the DJ's booth is installed. The booth can be raised
and is fitted out with various items of equipment, including a mixer
console and gooseneck microphone. Laminated side supports stabilise the
smart mobile disco when in use for deejaying.
A fog machine
located behind the radiator grille blows smoke onto the dance floor. A
host of different light effects are on board to conjure up the ultimate
disco fever: the smart is fitted with LED headlamps, which project an
animated light show onto the dance floor. A stroboscope inside the
vehicle sets the smart flashing at the push of a button. There is an
LED matrix on either side of the boom, and a spotlight which can be
turned in any direction is also part of the show. The smart mobile
disco's alloy wheels are back-lit, and the show car’s underbody is also
illuminated.
smart is a global sponsor of the exhibition
"Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today", which will be on
show from 17 March to 9 September 2018 at the Vitra Design Museum in
Weil am Rhein, Germany. The exhibition has been designed by Konstantin
Grcic. The smart mobile disco was evolved in the course of this
collaboration.
Back in 2015, smart and JBL produced arguably the
world's smallest mobile concert location in the guise of the smart
forgigs study.
Club sound for production vehicles, too: JBL sound system
The
smart mobile disco is a one-off model and not for sale. But with the
JBL sound system a unique sound experience is possible in all
new-generation smarts. The JBL sound system develops impressive sound
volume and incorporates a 6‑channel DSP amplifier (240 watts) in the
fortwo and an 8‑channel DSP amplifier (320 watts) on board the forfour.
A total of eight (fortwo) or twelve (forfour) high-performance
loudspeakers provide for outstanding sound quality: one broadband
centre loudspeaker, two tweeters in the mirror triangle, two lower
mid-range speakers in the doors (on the forfour additionally in the
rear doors), two broadband rear-fill loudspeakers and in the fortwo a
removable woofer on the left-hand side of the luggage compartment. The
woofer is simple to remove without needing tools, should more space be
required in the luggage compartment.
About Konstantin Grcic
Konstantin
Grcic (*1965) learned cabinet making at the John Makepeace School in
Dorset, England, before going on to study design at the Royal College
of Art in London. Since establishing his own design studio, Konstantin
Grcic Industrial Design (KGID), in Munich in 1991, he has developed
furniture, products and lights for a number of leading companies.
Many
of Grcic's products have won international design awards, and some
works are included in the permanent collections of leading design
museums (including MoMA, New York and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris).
He
has curated a number of design exhibitions, such as DESIGN-REAL for
The Serpentine Gallery, London (2009), COMFORT for the St. Etienne
Design Biennale (2010) or black2 for the Istituto Svizzero in Rome
(2010). He is currently responsible for the design of the exhibition
"Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today".
Vitra Design Museum
As
one of the leading design museums worldwide, the Vitra Design Museum
in Weil am Rhein focuses on design and architecture in the past and the
present. A further key area of work at the museum centres on exploring
and presenting design-related topics. This gives rise to up to ten
exhibitions annually. "Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 –
Today" at the Vitra Design Museum is the first comprehensive exhibition
tracing the history of club design over six decades. As a global
sponsor of the exhibition, smart is promoting the worldwide "Night
Fever" tour. The exhibition will be open to visitors daily from 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m. until 9 September 2018.
Source: Daimler
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