Member Spotlight: Prototype

Member Spotlight by [Prototype]

Provide us with a brief summary of your business’ services

• Every experience is an experiment, created to be tested, refined, and improved over time.
• Experience for curious adults. Purposely not a kid’s museum.
• Creative lab: part art installation, part science experiment, and part cultural playground.
• Ideas, experiments, and technologies here could inspire projects elsewhere.

Prototype provides a premium, supersensory experience for curious adults. We like to think of ourselves as a creative lab where every experience is an experiment and therefore was created to be tested, refined, and improved over time. While Prototype is the first museum of its kind, the ideas, experiments, and technologies that are tested here could also go on to become inspiration for projects at organizations elsewhere.

Tell us about your company’s mission and values

• Designed to spark human connections, push the boundaries of room-scale experience, and test new ways of engaging with art, technology, psychology, design, and culture.
• Iteration, innovation, and collective creativity.
• Connecting with the real world in supersensory, real-time ways. Shared, tactile experiences that create genuine human interaction.

Our mission is to create shared, tactile experiences that spark creativity, encourage visitors to engage in play, and create genuine human connections by pushing the boundaries of room-scale experiences and testing new ways of engaging with art, technology, design, and culture. We value iteration, innovation, and collective creativity.

What are the services you use the most (or are looking forward to using) from the Columbus Chamber?

Networking and event planning.

How do you stay engaged with trends that you see in your industry?

• Visitor feedback plays a central role- what is said and how visitors engage.
• Feedback and ideas shared by visitors help to create the next groundbreaking experience.

Feedback from visitors as well as from staff plays a central role both in what we explore and how we stay engaged with trends that are being seen in our industry. The ideas and feedback shared with us help to shape the next groundbreaking experience that we pursue. They also help us to engage more meaningfully in conversations surrounding negative trends within the industry by subverting expectations about and allowing visitors to confront them head-on.

What is your company culture like?

Our company culture is extremely encouraging of creativity, innovation and inclusivity. We also encourage our employees to cross train in other areas for professional growth and personal development.

What does it take to be a successful employee at your company?

A successful employee is a creative at heart who delivers results, takes initiative, communicates effectively and is adaptable and open to feedback. They respond well to change, learn from mistakes, and use feedback to grow and evolve with new challenges.

What makes Columbus such a great place to do business?

It’s a place where innovation and community go hand-in-hand and where audiences are eager to try something new.

Columbus is full of energy and creatives who are doing incredible work at the subsection of art and technology. It is truly a place where innovation and community go hand-in-hand and where both creators and audiences are eager to try new and exciting things.

Additionally, half the United States population lives within 600 miles of Columbus, making it a perfect location to prototype something bold.

Social Media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Prototype-Experimental-Museum/61564184945195/#
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prototype-interactive, https://www.linkedin.com/company/prototype-the-experimental-museum
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prototype.museum
Website: https://www.prototype.org/