Prototyping Across the Disciplines: Designing Better Futures (Mediated Cities)

ISBN 10: 1789381800 / ISBN 13: 9781789381801

Published by Intellect Books, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prototyping Across the Disciplines: Designing Better Futures (Mediated Cities)
• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789381800
• ISBN 13: 9781789381801
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Fields of study progress not by understanding more about what already exists, although that is a useful step, but by making guesses about possible better futures. The guesses consist of small forays into those futures, using strategies that are variously called learning through making, research through design, or more simply: prototyping. While traditionally associated primarily with industrial design, and more recently with software development, prototyping is now used as an important tool in areas ranging from materials engineering to landscape architecture to the digital humanities. This book collects current theories and methods of prototyping across a dozen disciplines and illustrates them through case studies of actual projects, whether in industry or the classroom. 

Prototyping Across the Disciplines provides context, a theoretical framework, and a set of methodologies for interdisciplinary collaboration in design. Each chapter offers a different disciplinary perspective on prototyping and provides a case study as a point of comparison for identifying commonalities and divergences in current practices. In examining the central role of prototyping in design research, this edited collection demonstrates theoretical and methodological transferability across disciplines not typically thought to be related, including post-human design, theatre, tabletop game design, landscape architecture, and arts entrepreneurship.

About the Author

Stan Ruecker is a scholar in information and communication design.
Milena Radzikowska's research work is transdisciplinary, marked by a passion to benefit others and informed by fifteen years on teams with researchers from over 30 different fields. 
Jennifer Roberts-Smith's interdisciplinary research and creative practice focus on performance and digital media, with particular emphases on design, theatre, history and pedagogy.