- 350 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
The book submits that a deep study of legacy material artifacts, 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 archeology 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 to creative practice may be achieved.
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Table of contents
- Foreword - Calmness as design research - Hanif Kara
- From things as they are to things as they ought to be. Learning from objects and things.
- An associative croissant
- The sphere and the vectorial grid
- The geometry of glass flowers
- Proto-typical
- Re-fabricating tectonic prototypes
- Erwin Hauer: An introduction
- Hauer's Legacy
- Re-describing / interpreting
- Associative Model 1
- Associative Model 2
- Associative Model 3
- Associative Model 4
- Associative Model 5
- Correlations
- Associative Model 6
- Associative Model 7
- Matrix of uniform differentiation
- Associative Model 1,2 and 3
- Associative Model 4
- Associative Model 5
- Associative Model 6
- Associative Model 7
- Matrix of non-uniform differentiation and tiling
- Sphere: non-uniform scale and translation
- Expanding the Enneper surface
- a. Polygon fitting
- b. Contact edges variations
- c. Rotational matrices
- New module 1.1: Associative Model 1 based
- New module 1.2: Associative Model 5 based
- New module 1.3: Associative Model 7 based_01
- New module 1.4: Associative Model 7 based_02
- New module 2,1: Intertwine_01
- New module 3.2: Octagon based
- New module 3.3: Contact edges based
- New module 3.4: Rotational matrix based
- New module 4.1: Generic cube based
- New module 4.2: Differentiated cube based
- New module 4.3: Octahedron based
- New module 4.4: Tetradecahedron based
- New module 4.4: Tetradecahedron based_ tiling variation
- Re-contextualization
- Double plane
- Scale
- New effects - two faced
- Light
- Fields and transitions
- Thermodynamic
- Re-fabrication
- Open source
- Biographies
- Acknowlegments