🌙️ Readings | Essays | Lectures | Papers | Poems | Journals ✨️
This list is a list of books that I have come accross as a designer that have inspired me in my craft. It is dedicated to my late friend Pierce Jorritsma.
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Arturo EscobarBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall KimmererEntangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo GaleanoPollution Is Colonialism
Max Liboiron
Revolutionary Demonology
Gruppo di NunSymbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere
Edited by Caroline A. Jones, Natalie Bell and Selby NimrodMilitant Modernism
Owen Hatherley
Modernism in the Streets
Marshall Berman
Lipstick Traces
Greil Marcus
The Beach Beneath the Street
McKenzie Wark
Keep Walking Intently
Lori Waxman
Rip it Up and Start Again
Simon Reynolds
Statement and Counter-Statement
Experimental Jetset
De Avant-Gardisten (‘The Avant-Gardists’)
written by Sjeng Scheijen (published by Prometheus, 2019)
Ways of Seeing, About Looking, Another Way of Telling & A Fortunate Man
John Berger
Design for the Real World
Victor Papanek