I describe our work with a team of movie screenwriters to help interpret the results of a Cultural Probe study, and with film-makers to document the experiences of people living with prototype designs in their homes.
Instead he built a live prototype of the platform, turned to the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, and achieved his funding goal far more quickly.
He explained: "We looked at the printed materials and the application forms and realised we could build a live prototype faster than it would take to read it all and fill in the forms.
While the Aeons in the image are purportedly live prototypes, they sure look like dummy mockups.
Before making live prototypes, device developers generally make plastic demo versions just to get a rough idea of sizing, ergonomics, etc.
In fact, in the next few months, the feedback of those refugees currently living in the prototype shelters will also be used to improve them even further.
According to Jeffery, Base has received hundreds of applications for the co-living prototype already, mainly from "the younger, more creative, more entrepreneurial type of person, because they tend to resonate with a more community-minded outlook".
Given this, it is no surprise that the ibis is embalmed together with Egyptian mummies, that beavers are buried in French ancient peat bogs, and that some other fossil herbivores and carnivores look much like the other prototypes living nowadays.
Biomimetics is exclusively based on living organisms and the evolution of some 10 million living prototypes (survey in Ref. [1]).
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, a new prototype for living quarters in space, was meant to serve as an extra room on the ISS for the next 2 years.
