Rethink! Prototyping

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.

Explores three different topics: hybrid, blended and beyond prototyping Merges different concepts of prototyping Examines both specific prototypes and different methodological approaches Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Gengnagel, 1965 in Jena geboren, ist seit 2006 Universitätsprofessor im Fachgebiet für Konstruktives Entwerfen und Tragwerkslehre am Studiengang Architektur der Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK). Er studierte Bauingenieurwesen an der Bauhaus Universität Weimar und Architektur an der TU München. Christoph Gengnagel ist seit 1993 als Tragwerksplaner tätig, 1999 erfolgte die Gründung des eigenen Büros a.k.a.ingenieure in München. Seit 2013 ist er Partner bei Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure und leitet das Büro Berlin.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Perspectives on prototyping.- Hybrid Prototyping.- Blended Prototyping.- Beyond Prototyping.- Joint research and reflection.- Summary.
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