Designing for Difficulty
Prototyping Media History with 3-D Fabrication
& Physical Computing
Tiffany Chan | @TiffChan29 | tjychan@uvic.ca
University of Victoria English | MLab
DH 2016 | Jagiellonian University | Kraków, Poland
14 July 2016
Prototyping
an Electro-mobile Skull Pin
Prototyping
Early Magnetic Recording
Prototyping
a Reading Optophone
Where We Encounter Difficulty
1) Reliability of the Archive
2) Remaking or Rapid Prototyping (Trial and Error)
3) Interface Design
Video and model care of Katherine Goertz + Victoria Murawski
Video and model care of Katherine Goertz + Victoria Murawski
Prototyping the Past
1) Asks what is missing, uncertain, or difficult — and why
2) Is concerned with history as well as future design practice
3) Attends to contingency, embodied labour, change over time
4) Tests hypotheses in material form
Thank You
Tiffany Chan
@TiffChan29 | tjychan@uvic.ca
With thanks to:
Jentery Sayers, Katherine Goertz, Danielle Morgan, Victoria Murawski
Brian Carter, DH 2016 Organizers, Jagiellonian University,
Pedagogical University
Research supported by SSHRC, CFI, and BCKDF