Project Toria: Five Living Systems from a Near Future
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Author: Dr Leire Asensio Villoria, Dr David Mah, and Mond Qu
Every vision of the future begins with what we already know. Buthow do designers, writers, and thinkers learn to look forward—andwhat does it mean to do so today, in an era of ecological crisis,technological acceleration, and dissolving certainties?Project Toria considers the future of the state of Victoria,Australia—not through the lens of grand ideology or technocraticoptimism, but through the considered study of its everydaysystems. From the wind tunnels of Melbourne’s CBD and theengineered wilderness of the Yarra Ranges, to the textile wasteaccumulating in Ghanaian coastal towns and the scarred open-cutmines of the Latrobe Valley, the book traces the hidden networksand overlooked associations that shape life in one of Australia’smost populous and fastest growing regions.Emerging from three years of intensive studio research at theArchitectural Association Visiting School at the University ofMelbourne (2022–2024), this richly illustrated volume offers anarray of projections for Victoria through data, design, speculativefiction, and firsthand inquiry. It proposes a projective, future-focused practice rooted in the ordinary—one that uncoversoverlooked associations between everyday systems, human andnon-human actors, and the environments we inhabit, in order toimagine how they might be reimagined.Featuring contributions from Leire Asensio Villoria, MiriamBorcherdt, Allison Crank, Lucinda Dryden, Bethany Edgoose,Arnaud Grignard, David S.C. Mah, Lucy Moroney, ChristopherPierce, Mond Qu, Rob Smith, Nicoletta Stecca and Nathan Su.
ISBN 9781922601476. Uro Publications. pb. 120 pages. 25 x 19 cm.
not yet published
Every vision of the future begins with what we already know. Buthow do designers, writers, and thinkers learn to look forward—andwhat does it mean to do so today, in an era of ecological crisis,technological acceleration, and dissolving certainties?Project Toria considers the future of the state of Victoria,Australia—not through the lens of grand ideology or technocraticoptimism, but through the considered study of its everydaysystems. From the wind tunnels of Melbourne’s CBD and theengineered wilderness of the Yarra Ranges, to the textile wasteaccumulating in Ghanaian coastal towns and the scarred open-cutmines of the Latrobe Valley, the book traces the hidden networksand overlooked associations that shape life in one of Australia’smost populous and fastest growing regions.Emerging from three years of intensive studio research at theArchitectural Association Visiting School at the University ofMelbourne (2022–2024), this richly illustrated volume offers anarray of projections for Victoria through data, design, speculativefiction, and firsthand inquiry. It proposes a projective, future-focused practice rooted in the ordinary—one that uncoversoverlooked associations between everyday systems, human andnon-human actors, and the environments we inhabit, in order toimagine how they might be reimagined.Featuring contributions from Leire Asensio Villoria, MiriamBorcherdt, Allison Crank, Lucinda Dryden, Bethany Edgoose,Arnaud Grignard, David S.C. Mah, Lucy Moroney, ChristopherPierce, Mond Qu, Rob Smith, Nicoletta Stecca and Nathan Su.
ISBN 9781922601476. Uro Publications. pb. 120 pages. 25 x 19 cm.
not yet published