Title & Author:

Upgrade : making things better / edited by Silke Langenberg.

Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2022]
©2022

Description:

511 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 17 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Instruction manual -- From repair to upgrade / Tom Emerson -- Take on responsibility / Silke Langenberg -- Heritage and narratives -- Why keep it? and what? / Thomas Will -- Obligations of the repair society / conversation with Wilfried Lipp -- Cutting and mending -- Following on from Ruskin / Helen Thomas and Adam Caruso -- Endless transformability / Felix Lehner -- Heating and cooling -- Repair revolution! / conversation between Sara Zeller and Yves Ebnöther -- Always worth it / conversation with Wolfgang Huber, Nadine Schmid, and Rony Schneider -- Sound and light -- On consumption and waste in the United States / Markus Berger -- Remanufacturing / Dorothea Scheidl-Nennemann and Davide Mastrodomenico -- Furniture -- Highlighting elements / Hans-Rudolf Meier -- From reuse onward / conversation with Tristan Boniver and Renaud Haerlingen -- Veolocity -- Second hand / Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores -- Up-grade down-grade free-grade / Inge Vinck and Jan De Vylder -- Fractures and spare parts -- Better the less / conversation with Arno Brandlhuber -- The uncoordinated constellation that produced change / Freek Persyn -- Catalogue.

Summary:

The incessant trend to throw away rather than to repair, demolish rather than refurbish has been a topic of discussion and criticism for years--at the same time, resource consumption and the waste continue to increase. To counteract this trend, students at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and ETH Zurich have been developing sustainable and imaginative concepts for repairing a wide variety of objects, applying them both manually and by using digital techniques such as 3D printing. Beyond restoration, many projects aim to further develop and improve the repaired objects constructively, materially, or even in terms of design, lending them new value. This publication presents a wide variety of approaches and projects, complemented by essays by notable personalities from the fields of architecture, preservation, materials science, design, manufacturing, and craftsmanship. SILKE LANGENBERG (*1974) is professor of Construction Heritage and Preservation at ETH Zurich. Previously, she was professor for Design and Construction in Existing Contexts, Conservation and Building Research at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, where she initiated a Repair Class.

ISBN:

3775753346 (hardcover)
9783775753340 (hardcover)

Subject:

Upcycling (Waste, etc.)
Industrial design.
Suprarecyclage.
Design.

Added entries:

Langenberg, Silke, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 319808
Call No.: 319808
Copy: 1
Status: Available