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 Escobar

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer

Entangled 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 ContinentEduardo Galeano 

Pollution Is Colonialism
Max Liboiron

Revolutionary DemonologyGruppo di Nun

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the BiosphereEdited by Caroline A. Jones, Natalie Bell and Selby Nimrod

Militant 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