Researchers design a superhuman: This is how you would look if you wanted to survive traffic accidents!
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A team of doctors, artists, and car accident specialists collaborated to design a mutated superhuman called Graham, the only imaginable form of a person who wanted to survive a fast-moving car accident.
With no neck, loose eyes and nose, "crinkle areas" in his skull, and airbags between each rib, Graham's body shape is just what humans need to survive a major crash.
Graham was created to highlight the fragility of the human body when traveling in cars. Graham may not win any beauty pageants, but he will survive in accidents.
Despite his strange appearance, Graham is not a cyborg or mutant from a feature film, but rather a sculpture created through an unexpected collaboration between artists, doctors and a government agency.
The Australian Transport Accidents Commission commissioned Melbourne-based artist Patricia Piccinini to create Graham, in collaboration with Melbourne Hospital trauma surgeon Christian Kenfield, and is designed to represent the shape the human body would need to survive a high-impact collision without any vehicle safety technology.
"Cars have evolved much faster than humans, and Graham helps us understand why we need to improve every aspect of our road system to protect ourselves from our mistakes," Joe Calavior, chief executive of the Australian Transport Accidents Commission, said in a statement.
“This is a work of art, and it needs to connect with the audience on an emotional level, while still getting some very serious ideas out. The idea is to stimulate conversation and questions rather than telling people what they think or feel,” Piccinini said.
“As much as we like to think we are invincible, we are not. The human body can only withstand a certain amount of force in the event of a car accident. In fact, the impact force at a speed of only 30 km/h is enough to be fatal – like collision with a pedestrian or a side collision with a tree.
"But what if we changed? What if our bodies could handle the impact of the collision? What would we look like?" Our goal is to explore this with Graham and remind people how vulnerable our bodies really are by showing what we might look like if we were built to survive. "Life is in a crash on the road. And while our bodies will never look like Graham's, there is a safe system out there that can help protect us in much the same way."
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