Reading

This is a general reading list recommended by the EDG faculty as relevant to Experience Design. You will find the name of each faculty member above their recommended list, and some selections are repeated between these lists.

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Martin Avila

Benjamin, A. (1995) “Event, Time, Repetition” Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory 4. New York.

Bennet, D. J. (1998) Randomness. Harvard University Press.

Bennett, J. (2010) Vibrant Matter. Duke University Press. Durham and London.

Bijker, W. E. and Law, J. (Eds.) (1992) Shaping Technology/ Building Society. Studies in Sociotechnical Change. The MIT Press. Cambridge Massachusetts.

Certeau, M. de. (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press. Berkeley.

Dant, T. (2005) Materiality and Society. Open University Press. Maidenhead.

De Landa, M. (2005 [1997]) A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. Swerve Editions. New York.

Dewey, J. ([1934] 1980) Art as Experience. Perigee Books. New York.

Dunne, A. (2005 [1999]) Hertzian Tales. MIT Press. Cambridge Massachusetts.

Gibson, J. J. (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Houghton Mifflin. Boston.

Goodman, N. (1976) Languages of Art. Hackett. Indianapolis.

Hara, K. (2007) Designing Design. Lars Müller Publishers. Baden, Switzerland.

Hinchliffe S., Kearnes M. B., Degen M., and Whatmore S. (2005). Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experiment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23:643-658.

Latour, B. (1997) “Trains of thought: Piaget, formalism and the fifth dimension”, Common Knowledge no. 3(6), 170–191.

Latour, B. (2004) Politics of Nature. Harvard University Press.

Lidwell, W; Holden, K; Butler, J. (2003) Universal principles of design. Rockport. Massachusetts.

Margolin, V. (2002) The Politics of the Artificial. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London.

Maturana, H. Varela, F. (1998) The Tree of Knowledge. Shambhala. Boston & London.

McLachan, F. and Coyne, R. (2001) “The accidental move: accident and authority in design discourse”. Design Studies 22.

Morin, E. and Kern, A. B. (1999) Homeland Earth. Hampton Press. New Jersey.

Naess, A. (2001 [1989]) Ecology, Community and Lifestyle. Cambridge University Press.

Norman, D. A. (2004) Emotional Design. Basic Books. New York.

Verbeek, P-P. (2005) What things do. The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Ronald Jones

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Collins, Harry and Robert Evans. Rethinking Expertise. The University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Pine, B. Joseph and James Gilmore, “Welcome to the Experience Economy,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1998.

Boswijk, Albert, Thomas Thijssen and Ed Peelen, “A New Perspective on the Experience Economy,” The European Centre for the Experience Economy, The Netherlands.

Taylor, Mark C.. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, January 2002

Nye, Joseph. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, Public Affairs, New York, 2005.

Burnham, Jack: “Systems Esthetics”, Reprinted from Artforum (September, 1968)

Beckett, Samuel. Whoroscope. (Paris: The Hours Press, 1930)

Kubler, George. The Shape of Time (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1962)

Kwinter, Sanford. Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

Judd, Donald, “Specific Objects,” 1965.

Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” WIRED.

Riding, Alan. “What has happened to culture’s challenge?” The International Herald Tribune, Friday, July 20, 2007.

Drucker, Peter. Beyond the Information Revolution.

Scott, Anthony and Clayton M. Christensen, “Can You Disrupt and Sustain at the Same Time?” Harvard Management Update, February 2005.

Fleming, Lee, “Perfecting Cross-Pollination,” Harvard Business Review, September 1, 2004.

Petroski, Henry. “Look First to Failure.” Harvard Business Review, October, 2004.

Erard, Michael. “Where to Get a Good Idea: Steal It Outside Your Group,” The New York Times.

Burt, Ronald. “Social Origins of Good Ideas,” January 2003.

Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition (1979) publ. Manchester University Press, 1984. Click for The First 5 Chapters.

Rolf Hughes

Barba, Eugenio and Savarese, Nicola (1991): A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer (Routledge, London).

Beckett, Samuel (2006): The Complete Dramatic Works (London, Faber & Faber).

Burnham, Jack: ‘Systems Esthetics’, Reprinted from Artforum (September, 1968)

Hughes, Rolf: 2009, The Art of Displacement: Designing Experiential Systems and Transverse Epistemologies as Conceptual Criticism, in I.

Doucet and K. Cupers (eds.), Footprints 4: Agency in Architecture: Reframing Criticality in Theory and Practice.

Jones, Ronald: 2009, Are You Experienced? How designers are adopting the strategies of Conceptual art in frieze, Issue 120, Jan-Feb 2009.

Churchman C. W. (1971) The Design of Inquiring Systems: Basic Concepts of Systems and Organization. New York: Basic Books Inc.

Dante Alighieri: The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (trans. By Ciaran Carson, Granta Books, 2002)

Klein, J. T., 1990: Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Klein, J. T. (2004) “Interdisciplinarity and complexity: An evolving relationship” E:CO Special Double Issue Vol. 6 Nos. 1-2.

Kuhn, T.: 1970, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd. ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Kwinter, Sanford. Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

Lippard, Lucy and Chandler, John ‘The Dematerializa tion of Art’, Art International, 12, 2 (February 1968)

Helga Nowotny, ‘The potential of transdisciplinarity’, in Rethinking Interdisciplinarity

Goldie, Peter and Schellekens, Elisabeth (eds.), 2007: Philosophy and Conceptual Art, (Oxford: Oxford University Press),

Sennet, Richard (2008): The Craftsman (Yale University Press, New Haven & London).

Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein: Or The Modern Promentheus Speaks

Michael ‘Theory was interesting . . . but now we have work’, Architecture Research Quarterly, 6, 3 (September 2002)

Taylor, Charles 1989: Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Harvard University Press)

Taylor, Mark C.. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, January 2002.

Taylor, Mark. 2009: End the University as We Know It (New York Times, April 26 2009).

Ramia Mazé

Design after Modernism, edited by John Thackara. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988.

Kwinter, Sanford. Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

Mazé, R. Occupying Time: Design, Technology and the Form of Interaction. Stockholm: AXL Books, 2007.

Borden, I., Kerr, J., Rendell, J. and Pivaro, A. (eds) The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

de Certeau, M., Girard, L. and Mayol, P. The Practice of Everyday Life. London: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Dunne, A. Hertzian Tales. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

Grosz, E. (ed) Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Perkins, Sean, ed. Experience. London, United Kingdom: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1995.

Taylor, Mark C.. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, January 2002.

Koji Wakayama

Braitenberg, Valentino (1984) Vehicles, Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. MIT Press. Cambridge.

Breazeal, Cynthia L. (2002) Designing Sociable Robots. MIT Press. Cambridge.

Brooks, Rodney A. (2002) Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us. Pantheon Books. New York.

Joy, Bill (2000) Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us. Wired 8.04, p.248. San Francisco.

Kurzweil, Ray (2005) The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Viking Adult. New York.

Maeda, John (1998) The South Face of the Mountain. Technology Review. Cambridge.