Rethink! Prototyping
Transdisciplinary Concepts of Prototyping
Editors: Gengnagel, Christoph, Nagy, Emilia, Stark, Rainer (Eds.)
Free Preview- Explores three different topics: hybrid, blended and beyond prototyping
- Merges different concepts of prototyping
- Examines both specific prototypes and different methodological approaches
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In this book, the authors describe the findings derived from interaction and cooperation between scientific actors employing diverse practices. They reflect on distinct prototyping concepts and examine the transformation of development culture in their fusion to hybrid approaches and solutions.
The products of tomorrow are going to be multifunctional, interactive systems – and already are to some degree today. Collaboration across multiple disciplines is the only way to grasp their complexity in design concepts. This underscores the importance of reconsidering the prototyping process for the development of these systems, particularly in transdisciplinary research teams.
“Rethinking Prototyping – new hybrid concepts for prototyping” was a transdisciplinary project that took up this challenge. The aim of this programmatic rethinking was to come up with a general concept of prototyping by combining innovative prototyping concepts, which had been researched and developed in three sub-projects: “Hybrid Prototyping” developed new prototyping approaches to validate and evaluate holistically developed systems with their services, infrastructure and business models. “Blended Prototyping” addressed a new technique whereby prototypes for user interfaces of software applications can be generated from hand drawings and immediately be tested. “Beyond Prototyping” examined the issue of the prototype in connection with algorithmically generated design for producing
tailor-made products.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Perspectives on Future Prototyping—Results from an Expert Discussion
Pages 11-22
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Design Prototyping for Research Planning and Technological Development
Pages 23-35
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Prototypes as Embodied Computation
Pages 37-48
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Prototyping Practice: Merging Digital and Physical Enquiries
Pages 49-62
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Rethink! Prototyping
- Book Subtitle
- Transdisciplinary Concepts of Prototyping
- Editors
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- Christoph Gengnagel
- Emilia Nagy
- Rainer Stark
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-24439-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-24439-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-24437-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-38741-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 240
- Number of Illustrations
- 97 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
- Topics