抄録
This paper presents the state of the art of Sapporo IT Carrozzeria Project. The purpose of the project is to establish the industrial infrastructure which enables to manufacture a functional mock-up of IT appliances in the Sapporo city area. In order to realize the project, we organized a prototype design research group, and started to produce the mock-up by way of trial. The purpose of the trial is to grasp problems related to the prototype design process, and clarify the solutions through the different kinds of design, such as the redesign, the advanced and requested design. As a result, the problems in relation to the industrial infrastructure of Sapporo area have been solved gradually. And we have produced the mock-up models in which an IT-electronic circuit is embedded, such as VideoBOX, VWC (Visual Wireless Communicator), TAJODA (Tactile and Jog Dial) interface, CyARM (Cybernetic Arm), and Marin Movacom (Movable Computer). In this paper, we discuss the esthetic design process of those mock-up models.
