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What Do Prototypes Prototype ? Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill: 1.For Artists or Designers, interaction with artifacts is critical. This is why this article is important to your thesis (albeit outdated) 2.The authors propose mainly to change the way we define and talk (language) about prototypes especially as it pertains to the PROCESS of making projects.
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BFA DT Thesis Fall 2012WEEK 2
Anezka SebekSeptember 4, 2012
What is Thesis?
Iterative production of artifacts becomes argumentation. What is the nature of the artifact? (ontology)How do we know what we know?(epistemology)What values are embedded?(axiological)What is the language?(rhetorical)What is the methodology?(methodological)
What Do Prototypes Prototype?
Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill: 1. For Artists or Designers, interaction with
artifacts is critical. This is why this article is important to your thesis (albeit outdated)
2. The authors propose mainly to change the way we define and talk (language) about prototypes especially as it pertains to the PROCESS of making projects.
What Do Prototypes Prototype?
Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill:
What Do Prototypes Prototype?
Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill:
What Do Prototypes Prototype?
Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill:
What Do Prototypes Prototype?
Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill: 3. Prototypes provide a means to a. Examine design problemsb. Select the focus of a prototype to answer
design questions: what it does and does not explore
c. Evaluate whether the prototype works or not
What Do Prototypes Prototype?
Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill: 4. PRESENTATION: look and feel—this is often what we get stuck on. We need to clarify what will end up in the final product and what won’t is often a problem when presenting to audiences outside the design process.
What Do Prototypes Prototype?
Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill: the take-awayArtifact –what is its form?Prototype- what is the form meant to prove: Look and feel (concrete experience of the project)? Role it will have in the user’s life?Product production and implementation? Artist/Designer-as communicator and planner
Craft of ResearchFrom Topics to Questions
Research: we do it to find our context in the specific realm of knowledge we are engaging in and what remains to be an open question where we can contribute our voice in the form of a project or answer to a problem or problematic.
Craft of ResearchFrom Topics to Questions
Research Questions help save time and needless searching. This is the same for designers/artistsresearchers everywhere:
I am researching X Because I want to find out who/how/what/whyIn order to understand X
As you explore as with the grid of nine for next week:Be on the lookout for similarities, form, likeness that will help expand your research/thesis question. In the end, you are making models, metaphors, and analogies that become the foundation of your thesis. Review: paper requirement
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John Baldessari
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Allan McCollum
DrawShow someone else how to do artTemplates Interest in heraldry-representation of “family,” feeling of belongingSystem to produce a shape for everyone on the planet The brutality of categories of warFactories, industrial kitchensQuantity, with singularity and uniquenessResolution between unique and mass productionNightmare or abundance? Thousands of things—would it be awe inspiring?Sci-Fi Something that takes over and growsStory driven—the exotic, “far away place:” Maine. Artists in their homes. Antithesis to people working in their homes. Web: Maine/craft/home/Team work –rubber stamps, ornaments, cookie cutters, wood shapesCombinatorial projectsVocabulary of parts to make something else. Computer-like shapes drawn by hand, combined on the computer, body parts (necks)
