Reading List


Barker, M. (2012). Soup: Fragmented cups [Photograph]. https://www.mandy-barker.com/soup-2

Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Duke University Press.

Bolt, B. (2007). The magic is in handling. In E. Barrett & B. Bolt (Eds.), Practice a research: Approaches to creative arts enquiry (pp. 27-34). I. B. Tauris.

Chillag, I. (Host). (2018-present). Everything is alive [Audio podcast]. Radiotopia. https://www.everythingisalive.com/

Colebrook, C. (2013). Framing the end of the species: Images without bodies. Symploke; Lincoln, 21(1-2), 51-63.

Cooper, A. (1999). The inmates are running the asylum. Sams.

Jazvac, K. (2013). Plastiglomerate [Photograph]. http://www.kellyjazvac.com/Stones/Stones.html

Jordan, C. (2009-present). Midway: Message from the gyre [Photograph]. http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000313%2018x24

Kant, I. (1952). The critique of judgement (J.C. Meredith, Trans.). Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1790)

Martin, B., & Hanington, B. (2012). Universal methods of design. Rockport Publishers.

Ngai, S. (2005). Ugly feelings. Harvard University Press.

Ngai, S. (2012). Our aesthetic categories: Zany, cute, interesting. Harvard University Press.

Norris, J., Karana, E., & Nimkulrat, N. (2018). Conversing with materials – how do we converse with materials and other beings to co-design equitably? In S. Prendeville, A. Durrant, N. O’Murchú, & K. Leahy (Eds.), Book of DRS2018 conversations (pp. 21-28). Design Research Society.

Sadokierski, Z. (2019). Critical journal/contextual portfolio: A framework for documenting and disseminating RtD as scholarly research. Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Research Through Design Conference, 19-22 March 2019, Delft and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7855829.v1

Schön, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Basic Books, Inc.

Smith, K. (2008). How to be an explorer of the world: Portable life museum. Penguin Books.

Star, S. L., & Griesemer, J. R. (1989). Institutional ecology, ‘translations’ and boundary objects: Amateurs and professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science, 19(3), 387-420. 

Stoknes, P. E. (2015). What we think about when we try not to think about global warming: toward a new psychology of climate action. Chelsea Green Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963909.n137

Tharp, B. M., & Tharp, S. M. (2018). Discursive design: Critical, speculative and alternative things. The MIT Press.

Tsing, A. (2015). The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton University Press.

Warren, C., & Campbell, M. (2014). What makes things cool? How autonomy influences perceived coolness. Journal of Consumer Research, 41(2), 543-563. https://doi.org/10.1086/676680

Wertheim, M., & Wertheim, C. (2015). Crochet coral reef: A project by the Institute For Figuring. Institute For Figuring.