Systems Upgrade

Name: Systems Upgrade
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SKU: 9781638409717
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(Re)Fabricating Tectonic Prototypes

By Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah

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Systems Upgrade explores how legacy material artefacts can be reinterpreted through contemporary digital design, bridging design history and creative practice. The book examines the works of Austrian American sculptor and designer Erwin Hauer, demonstrating a method of re-description and redesign that leverages historical knowledge for future innovation. Combining digital archaeology with new creative tools, the authors propose a multiverse approach to design that is both grounded in history and openly speculative.
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This book is ideal for design historians, contemporary creatives, and scholars interested in digital design methods and the reinterpretation of design legacies.

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The book submits that a deep study of legacy material artefacts, through the lens of contemporary digital design, can constitute a valuable bridge between design history and contemporary creative practice.

Systems Upgrade focuses on an investigation into the ways that we may re-describe and upgrade these design legacies for extension in future practice. The book explicates this through a deep dive into the re-description and re-design of the works of Austrian American sculptor and designer, Erwin Hauer. Systems Upgrade offers a design research approach that leverages the embodied knowledge latent within the material legacies of design history for direct applicability in creative practice.

This long-spanning research into the construction of links between the deep study of precedent and future practice has been advanced through a simultaneous engagement with digital archaeology and the new tools of creative practice. Invested in the belief of a need to open design and its material legacies to a multiverse, this research has yielded a collection of methods, techniques, and novel outcomes grounded in history yet openly speculative in outlook.

Systems Upgrade extensively illustrates an engagement with some of the most notable works of the Austrian American sculptor and designer Erwin Hauer. This book highlights several important phases of this specific design research project to provide a detailed view of how a series of bridges between analysis and creative practice may be achieved.

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“Asensio Villoria & Mah create a rich tapestry of associations through this attempt to construct what can be understood as a framework of readings, cataloguing a series of possibilities that reframe and project a material complexity.” – Dr. Theodore Spyropoulos, Architectural Association

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781638409717

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 March 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Actar Publishers

Contributors:

Foreword by Hanif Kara

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 350

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Arts & Culture David Mah Leire Asensio Villoria Non-Fiction

About the Author

Leire Asensio Villoria is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne's School of Design and is a co-director of the MSD's ADD+F (Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication) Research Hub. She has taught at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, London's Architectural Association School of Architecture and at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Leire is an author of Architecture of Waste: A (Re)Planned Obsolescence (Actar) and Lifestyled: Health and Places (Jovis). David S.C. Mah is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture at the University of Melbourne's school of design. David has taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Cornell University's department of architecture at the graduate design school of the Architectural Association in London. David is an author of the book: Lifestyled Health and Places (Jovis). Together with Leire, his creative works have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and for the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Design Week amongst others.