Swedish electric auto brand Polestar hopes to add a little corn and flax into your diet of automotive interior design.

While the automotive industry’s move toward electrification has become the focal point of what we’ll be driving in the near future, a quieter revolution is happening inside. Increasingly auto manufacturers are using an array of sustainable materials sourced from plant or recycled materials in lieu of leathers, plastics, and metals within the passenger cabin to give the next generation of vehicles more than a sheen of green during their life cycle.
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Electric car manufacturer Polestar launched the Polestar 2 with a completely vegan upholstered interior, with seating enveloped with the wetsuit-inspired WeaveTech (even the steering wheel is leather-free). And more recently the same manufacturer’s R&D team reached out to artist Thijs Biersteker to collaborate on an interactive sculpture using a biodegradable corn-based adhesive with a bio-sourced polypropylene polymer that may one day find their way inside future Polestar vehicles.
Titled, ?We Harvest Wind,” the interactive installation was inspired by Polestar?s LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) data, a report spotlighting “information about emissions from materials production, manufacturing, how the type of electricity used when charging affects use phase emissions, and so on.” Beyond the public relation aspect of the project, the artistic collaboration allowed Pole...