some books for designers, vol.1

These were some, I stumbled upon while moving across the few projects. The course New Media Design brought about an interesting recourse in my life and the learning(s) I found from mentors and peers is irreplaceable.

Duchamp’s Play. #ProjectionMapping #MarcelDuchamp #TouchOSC #NID #PGCampusGandhinagar

& then I thought I must share with the community of learners where-ever, all the amazing ideas/thoughts/epiphanies/concepts I stumbled upon in some the books that were either recommended to me, or I found out during research, or those that seldom pop up during agenda-less conversations, or some that I found when trying to peek into “what are they reading?”

1. Design for the Real World : Human Ecology and Social Change
2. The Design of Everyday Things
3. Heidegger, a graphic guide
4. Sentient City — Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture and the Future of Urban Space
5. Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-time City
6. City as Interface: How New Media Are Changing the City
7. Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology (Future City)
8. The Image of the City
9. New Movement in Cities
10. What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design
11. Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things
12. Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
13. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
14. Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
15. Codex Seraphinianus
16. Shaping Things
17. The cybercities reader
18. Cities for people
19. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
20. Leonardo Journals
21. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian
22. Net Locality : Why Location Matters in a Networked World
23. The Design of Implicit Interactions: Making Interactive Systems Less Obnoxious
24. Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village
25. Liquid Modernity
26. The philosophy of ‘as if’
27. Envisioning Real Utopias
28. Questioning Technology
29. The Book of Dave
30. Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction
31. Utopia
32. Science Fiction as Cognitive Estrangement
33. Speculative Everything
34. Space Merchants
35. Pastoralia
36. American Psycho
37. Super Sad True Love Story : A Novel
38. England England
39. Happiness
40. Blind Faith
41. After Man : Zoology of the future
42. Oryx and Crake
43. Red Plenty
44. The world who wants it?
45. The City & The City
46. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
47. What Technology Wants
48. The Social Life of Information
49. Man the Unknown
50. Setting Up Your Shots
51. An Actor Prepares
52. Seven Elements that have Changed the World
53. Lab Coats in Hollywood
54. Imaginary Futures
55. Media in the Digital Age

This list is not meant to be taken too seriously. These are just some books that got my attention between April,2012 and October,2015. I would like people in the field of design/creatives to try these, and then make up their own mind.

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