Thesis Reading List

Tracy Potter
Design Values, Craft, and Futures
4 min readApr 27, 2016

Adamson, Glenn. The Invention of Craft. London: & C Black Publishers, 2012.

Alfano, Andrea. “RockPaperRobot Is Making Furniture That Captures The Wonders Of Physics.” Tech Times. June 17, 2015. Accessed October 17, 2015. http ://www.techtimes.com/articles/60759/20150617/rockpaperrobot-making-furniture- captures-wonders-physics.htm

Bowker, Geoffrey C. Memory Practices in the Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.

Brown, Jody. “The Craft of Architecture.” ArchDaily. November 02, 2011. Accessed September 23, 2016. http://www.archdaily.com/180775/the-craft-of-architecture.

Chachra, Debbie. “Why I Am Not a Maker.” The Atlantic. January 23, 2015. Accessed October 02, 2016. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/why-i-am-not-a-maker/384767/.

Cramer, Florian. “Florian Cramer Post-digital Aesthetics — Le Magazine.” Le Magazine. May 1, 2013. Accessed September 26, 2016.http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/2013/05/florian-cramer-post-digital-aesthetics/.

Dormer, Peter. The Culture of Craft: Status and Future. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1997

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Dormer, Peter. The Art of Making: Skill and Its Meaning in Art, Craft and Design. London, England: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

Dreyfus, H. L. & Dreyfus, S. (1988). Mind over Machine: the power of human intuition and expertise in the era of the computer. New York: Free Press.

Eiss, P. K. and Pedersen, D. (2002), Introduction: Values of Value. Cultural Anthropology, 17: 283–290. doi:10.1525/can.2002.17.3.283

“Eyeo 2014 — Leah Buechley on Vimeo.” Vimeo. Accessed October 16, 2016. https://vimeo.com/110616469.

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Georgina Follett & Louise Valentine (2007) New Craft Future Voices, The Design Journal, 10:2, 1–3

Gessato. “Almost Furniture Expertly Pairs Traditional Craftsmanship And Innovative Design.” Dwell. Accessed September 23, 2016. https://www.dwell.com/article/almost-furniture-expertly-pairs-traditional-craftsmanship-and-innovative-design-c4d2bd58.

Greenhalgh, P. (2002). Introduction: Craft in a Changing World. In P. Greenhalgh (ed.) The Persistence of Craft. A&C Black, 1–17.

Hopkinson, N., R. J. M. Hague, and P. M. Dickens. Rapid Manufacturing: an Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age. Chichester, England: John Wiley, 2006.

Ingold, Tim. Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. New York, NY: Routledge, 2013.

Ingold, Tim. “Thinking Through Making.” Lecture. October 31, 2013. Accessed October 24, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygne72-4zyo.

Krippendorff, K (2006). The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design. CRC Press Boca Raton, FL

Kurutz, Steven. “Furniture Meets the Digital Age.” The New York Times. March 28, 2012. Accessed October 17, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/garden/furniture-design-adapts-to-technology.html?_r=1.

Kwun, Aileen. “A Chair That Shows How Tech and Craft Come Together.” Dwell. Accessed September 23, 2016. https://www.dwell.com/article/a-chair-that-shows-how-tech-and-craft-come-together-3214d5b6.

Labarre, Suzanne. “How Plywood Revolutionized Design And Changed The World (No, Really!).” Co.Design. February 1, 2012. Accessed December 10, 2015. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1668947/how-plywood-revolutionized-design-and-changed-the-world-no-really.

Lipps, Andrea, Ellen Lupton, and Kimberly Varella. Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Smithsonian Design Museum.

Masterson, D. (2007) Deconstructing the Digital, Conference proceedings, New Craft Future Voices, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland, 4–7 July.

McCullough, M. (1998) Abstracting Craft: The practiced digital hand, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England.

Openshaw, Jonathan, Glenn Adamson, Mark Gage, Daniel Miller, Nathan Jurgenson, David Rose, Sarah Williams, and Liam Young. Postdigital Artisans: Craftsmanship with a New Aesthetic in Fashion, Art, Design and Architecture. Amsterdam: Frame Publishers, 2015.

Penfold, John. Craft, Design, and Technology: Past, Present, and Future. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, 1988.

Peter Wright, Jayne Wallace, and John McCarthy. 2008. Aesthetics and experience-centered design. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 15, 4, Article 18 (December 2008), 21 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1460355.1460360

Philipsen, Lotte. “Who’s Afraid of the Audience? — Digital and Post-Digital Perspectives on Aesthetics.” A Peer-Reviewed Journal About. Accessed September 26, 2016. http://tm-resource.projects.cavi.au.dk/?p=1768.

Press, Mike. “Handmade Futures: The Emerging Role of Craft Knowledge in our Digital Culture,” in Neocraft: Modernity and the Crafts, ed. Sandra Alfoldy (Halifax, N.S.:Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2007.)

Pye, David. The Nature and Art of Workmanship: David Pye,.. Cambridge: University Press, 1968.

Risatti, Howard. A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Saieh, Nico. “Craftsmanship: Material Consciousness — Inside Indonesia’s Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2014.” ArchDaily. July 14, 2014. Accessed September 23, 2016. http://www.archdaily.com/527548/craftsmanship-material-consciousness-inside-indonesia-s-pavilion-at-venice-biennale-2014.

Thackara, John. In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005.

Sanchez, Kelly Vencill. “These Designers Will Take No Shortcuts in Their Quest for High-Quality American Design.” Dwell. Accessed September 23, 2016. https://www.dwell.com/article/these-designers-will-take-no-shortcuts-in-their-quest-for-high-quality-american-design-4f3dea73.

Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008

Sisson, Patrick. “How Technology Informs the Craft Revolution.” Dwell. Accessed September 23, 2016. https://www.dwell.com/article/how-technology-informs-the-craft-revolution-fd7569a3.

Steinhauer, Jillian. “Getting to Know the Artisans Who Make Other People’s Art.” Hyperallergic RSS. December 15, 2014. Accessed September 26, 2016. http://hyperallergic.com/168719/getting-to-know-the-artisans-who-make-other-peoples-art/.

Tate, Paul. “Manufacturings Future: The Role of Craftsmanship.” Manufacturings Future: The Role of Craftsmanship. December 31, 2013. Accessed March 15, 2016. http://www.gilcommunity.com/discussion/ manufacturings-future-role-craftmanship/.

Weiss, Allie. “WorkOf: Building a Community of Brooklyn Makers.” Dwell. Accessed September 23, 2016. https://www.dwell.com/article/workof-building-a-community-of-brooklyn-makers-a64430b5.

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