Iterate Sharp John Associate Professor of Games and Learning Parsons The New School for Design
Iterate Sharp John Associate Professor of Games and Learning Parsons The New School for Design How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case…
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Iterate Sharp John Associate Professor of Games and Learning Parsons The New School for Design
How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation.Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. Their tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: iteration, the cyclical process of conceptualizing, prototyping, testing, and evaluating. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes.
In Iterate, they explain how to fail better.After laying out the four components of creative practice--intention, outcome, process, and evaluation--Sharp and Macklin describe iterative methods from a wide variety of fields. Sharp and Macklin have found that failure--often hidden, covered up, a source of embarrassment--is the secret ingredient of iterative creative process. They show, for