“Prototypes as Instruments for Critical Practice” Call for Contributions to Dimensions Journal
Written by Anne-Catrin Schultz
Submission by September 10, 2024
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Guidelines for Authors
The perspective on the notion of prototype assumed in this issue is deliberately broad including all facets of the architecture discipline and allied fields. It is inclusive of early-stage developments and more developed concepts – of demonstrators and mock-ups. Prototypes may encapsulate the complete work and the thinking that led to it or capture an aspect of the work, as a biopsy or detail. We believe that prototype as a term works in different circumstances. Our goal is to develop the notion of it since it holds a lot of potential for architecture and allied fields. Prototyping goes along with experimenting, exploration, and/or testing. Prototyping is inevitably connected with the making and building;
samples, models, or examples are made to gain new insights. Understanding things through critical and reflective making is pivotal in the inventive process of proceeding the knowledge gain inherent to it, and to make it explicit as research findings.
Submissions are expected to be intimately linked to the practices of architecture and engineering at multiple scales. The frictions that arise from considering design factors such as economy, longevity, liability, and maintenance – frictions inherent in industry processes – are considered critical for driving change. The »Prototypes as Instruments for Critical Practice« issue aims to provide a platform for sharing any such knowledge.
