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Ideas and approaches for practical solutions become manifest in prototypes. They enable us to consider and test them as well as to communicate about them. Prototypes inspire new ideas, demonstrate problems and let us test solutions. They are tools in the creation, development and design process, which have traditionally been shaped in different ways depending on the field.
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The work on the three-year transdisciplinary project was done by academics and artists from the Design Department of the UdK Berlin in the fields of “Design with digital media”, “Design research” and “Constructive drafting and architecture planning”. The participants from the TU Berlin included the departments of “Traffic and machine systems” and “Electrical engineering and computer science”, with the fields of “Industrial information technology”, “Computer graphics” and “Quality and Usability”, as well as the associated research institutions at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK).
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For more information about the “Hybrid Plattform”, see www.hybrid-plattform.org.
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Gengnagel, C., Nagy, E., Stark, R. (2016). Introduction. In: Gengnagel, C., Nagy, E., Stark, R. (eds) Rethink! Prototyping. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24439-6_1
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