Carolina Uscategui

Visual Strategist & Designer 

(DE)COMPOSITION
MFA Thesis 


KINSHIP 
Art Direction, Branding 


NASA JPL 
Visual Strategy


Unsettling Memories 
Publication 


Sué
Branding Development 


D5 Climate Change 
Deloitte Report 


Exploration 


Readings 




🌙️  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 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 Continent

Eduardo Galeano 

Pollution Is Colonialism
Max Liboiron


Revolutionary Demonology

Gruppo di Nun

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere

Edited 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