caa a22 4500 397524358 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950501xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3096905 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3096905 Henderson Kathryn Texas A&M University The Political Career of a Prototype: Visual Representation in Design Engineering [Elektronische Daten] [Kathryn Henderson] This study focuses on the political career of the drawing/prototype pair, a linked series of visually oriented sets, that resides in the borderland between research/development and production in industrial design engineering. In this frontier space both consensus and conflict occur between groups and between individuals. Attention to the metamorphosis of design through interactions centered around the interlinked drawing/prototype pair reveals the social construction of a piece of technology and the group process of the emerging design. Moreover, this examination reveals the strength of visual representations as actants in the design process. Whether three-dimensional plastic prototypes or two-dimensional drawings on paper, visual representations play a crucial role in interactions that organize work, organize knowledge, and recruit and organize resources, political support, and power. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Politics of Activism and Culture nationallicence Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/2(1995-05-01), 274-299 0037-7791 42:2<274 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3096905 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3096905 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Henderson Kathryn Texas A&M University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/2(1995-05-01), 274-299 0037-7791 42:2<274 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford