Prototyping Ideas | Week 3

Part I

The exercise that followed bodystorming was prototyping our ideas. For our group, we needed to consider how to prototype a ceramic form for the patients to work from. As this is a participatory design project with patients from Ateliers Living Museum Wil, we have not decided yet, whether the ceramic object will be abstract or more personalized. If the objects are abstract will they be modular? If yes, this could allow for others to contribute to the project. If no, we need to think about how to maintain some sort of unity between the ceramic objects. For us this might look like a modular way of displaying the pieces. In addition to the “ceramic form” prototypes, we also thought about a digital map to keep track of either the movement of the objects, or the collaboration of others.

Part II

The second part of the prototyping ideas session was to further develop our initial prototypes. At this point we really began to think about how to attach objects to pre-existing architecture in the city of Wil.