These are books, readings and sites that aggregate content mostly. I’ll post examples of practice as related to the projects as we do them. The Github code repository is here and the google drive with the class lectures are here.
Data, devices, design
- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, 2019, Data Feminism.
- Manaugh, Geoff, “Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions”, Actar, 2013.
- cj Lim, “Devices: A Manual of Architectural + Spatial Machines” Routledge, 2005.
- Dunne, Anthony & Raby, Fiona “Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming” MIT Press, 2013.
Environmental Inquiry + Computing
- For an intro into cybernetics, see All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, The Use and Abuse of Vegetal Concepts by Adam Curtis.
- Augmented Ecology project is a fantastic archive of projects and research.
- Digital Naturalist conference: https://www.dinacon.org/
- Random Forests Project: http://randomforest.nl/
Multispecies Design
- Tsing, Anna, & others, “Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene” University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
- Kolbert, Elizabeth. The sixth extinction: An unnatural history. A&C Black, 2014.
- Ursula K. Le Guin Keynote Talk at the Anthropocene Conference: “Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet”, 2014 https://vimeo.com/97364872
- Jeremijenko, Natalie. “Milgram’s Mice: bioinformatics in the wild”
- Zacks, Stephen “Other Voices, Other Worlds” ArtInAmerica, 2018.
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2015.
- Anab Jain: https://vimeo.com/255010942
- Anne Galloway: http://morethanhumanlab.org/
Climate Change
- From 2014, but this remains a good series on Climate Change adaptation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adaptation-to-climate-change/id814949401
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells
- Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell
- A ‘popular science’ overview, the Attenborough documentary
- Journalists to follow are: Kate Aronoff, Eric Holthaus, Jeff Goodell, and scientists Katharine Hayhoe, Gavin Schmidt, Kate Marvel and many others