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Reading List



©2025 Carolina Uscátegui.
All rights reserved.

Visual Strategist

Los Angeles, CA, USA

🌙️  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