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Reading Lists

2021

• Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking - David Bayles and Ted Orland
• Pollution is Colonialism - Max Liboiron
• Mapping abundance for a planetary future - Candace Fujikane
• Work: A history of how we spend our time - James Suzman
• Slowdown - Danny Dorling
• Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

2020

• Japansoft - Alex Wiltshire
• Takram Design Engineering - Hisato Ogata and Kinya Tagawa
• Discursive Design - Bruce M. Tharp & Stephanie M. Tharp
• Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design - Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• Small is Beautiful - E.F. Schumacher
• Designs For the Pluriverse - Arturo Escobar

2019

• Heart of Darkness - Jospeh Conrad
• The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett
• Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History - Michel Trouillot
• The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui
• Coders at Work - Peter Seibel
• A Theory of Fun for Game Design - Raph Koster
• Understanding Media - Marshall Mcluhan
• Lifelong Kindergarten - Mitchell Resnick
• How to Do Nothing - Jenny Odell
• The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard P. Feynman
• Palaces for the People - Eric Klinenberg
• The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing - Marie Kondo
• The Dispossed - Ursula Le Guin
• Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of The Machine
• The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal - Mitchell Waldrop
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning How to Learn - Richard Hamming
• Design For the Real World - Victor Papanek
• The Book of Tea - Okakura Kakuzō
• Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich
• Orality and Literacy - Walter J. Ong
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Cristopher W. Alexander
• Speculative Everything - Anthony Dunne & Fiana Raby
• Ser du Månen, Daniel - Puk Damsgård
• The Field Study Handbook - Jan Chipchase
• Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form - Robert Venturi
• Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom - Ilpo Koskinen
• New Dark Age - James Bridle
• Design as an Attitude - Alice Rawsthorne
• The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells

Books Which Have Inspired Me

• Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott
• The Visual Presentation of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
• Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History - Michel Trouillot
• Understanding Media - Marshall Mcluhan
• Mindstorms - Seymour Papert
• The Field Study Handbook - Jan Chipchase
• Discursive Design - Bruce M. Tharp & Stephanie M. Tharp