Intellect (uk) Prototyping across the disciplines: designing better futures, paperback/jennifer roberts-smith

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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 author(s): Jennifer Roberts-Smith is associate professor of theater and performance at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

She is the coeditor of Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools.

Stan Ruecker is the Anthony J.

Petullo Professor of Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He is the coauthor of Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage: A Guide to Rich-Prospect Browsing and has written extensively on design and the digital humanities.

Milena Radzikowska is professor of information design at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

She is the coauthor of Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage: A Guide to Rich-Prospect Browsing and has published widely on data visualization and information design.