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Prototypes in Urban Space Make A Thing
See What Happens
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Breaking Down Design Practice
Prototyping 07.10.2015@readywater
Point of Design #1: (Try to) Make sense of
people and things
Point of Design #2: Make a thing
Point of Design #3: Critical analysis of
outcomes via things
Point of Design #4: Iterate
Designed Outcomes & Why to prototype
Prototyping 07.10.2015@readywater
And you may ask yourself “Well...How did I get here?”
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We fetishize the act of design & object creation
And often make a thing to fulfill an observed or
defined need
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But we often don’t take responsibility for the
emergent result
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What of the logistics of design outcomes?
How might we shift design outcomes
towards a designed outcome?
Some Examples
Prototyping 07.10.2015@readywater
Walk [Your City]
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The Chime
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Lava Mae
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P-Cycle
InSite
[murmur]
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Mayor Mockus
Detour
Throne Speech
__________ prototype that explores ______
Prototyping 07.10.2015@readywater
Service+Paper: Financial Goals
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Code+Data: Mobility and Information
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Physical: Infrastructure and
Behaviour
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Physical: Urban Space and
Experience
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Space: Behaviours and
Community
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Code+Device: Wellness and
Awareness
Code+Space: Form, Light, and Group Dynamics
Space+Code+Form: Emotion and Memory
Prototyping serves a goal poking at emergence.
Continuously. Needling away at it to paint
a picture of behaviour.
Prototyping is the most basic exercise of sense
making for design.
Cycling in SF: An evolving outcome of
actions & prototypes
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Activism and Form
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First Bikelane in SF, 1971
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Wiggle Protest: Action
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Wiggle Protest: Policy
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Wiggle Protest: Outcome??
What assumptions are you making?
How can you test those assumptions?
What’s the least effort way to
create that experiment?
Make it. Observe. Repeat.
