Design research methods and seminar (Preliminary Research )

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TAD4523 Recommended Texts

These are recommended texts with which to begin your research in your chosen area. All of

these texts are available through the Monash library.

Design and Sustainability

Chick, Anne. 2011. Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive

the Sustainability Agenda, edited by Paul Micklethwaite. Lausanne: Ava Pub Sa.

Fry, Tony. 2009. Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice. Sydney:

University of New South Wales Press.

Margolin, Victor. 2015. "The Good City: Design for Sustainability." She Ji 1, no. 1: 34-43.

Margolin, Victor. 2002. The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Micklethwaite, Paul. 2019. "Design Against Consumerism." In A Companion to

Contemporary Design since 1945, 436-56. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Smith, Stephanie, and Victor Margolin. 2005. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art.

Chicago, Ill.: Smart Museum of Art Bristol; University Presses Marketing.

Stoekl, Allan. 2009. “Gift, Design and Gleaning.” Design Philosophy Papers, Issue 1: 1-5.

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Critical Design

Bardzell, Shaowen, Bardzell, Jeffrey, Forlizzi, Jodi, Zimmerman, John, and Antanitis, John.

2012. "Critical Design and Critical Theory: The Challenge of Designing for

Provocation." Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 288-97.

New York: Association for Computing Machinery.

Dunne, Anthony, and Fiona Raby. 2013. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social

Dreaming. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.

Jakobsone, Liene. 2017. “Critical design as an approach to next thinking” The Design

Journal 201:1: S4253-S4262.

Laranjo, Francisco (ed.). 2017. Modes of Criticism. 3, Design and Democracy. Eindhoven:

Onomatopee.

Malpass, Matthew. 2017. Critical Design in Context: History, Theory, and Practices: London;

New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Mazé, Ramia. 2016. “Design and the Future: Temporal Politics of ‘Making a Difference’” in

Smith, Rachel Charlotte et al. Design Anthropological Futures: Exploring Emergence,

Intervention and Formation. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 37-54.

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Semiotics and the Commodity

Barthes, Roland. 1993. Mythologies. London: Vintage.

Baudrillard, Jean. 1998. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. London: Sage

Publications.

Chandler, Daniel. 2018. Semiotics: The Basics. Third edition. New York: Routledge.

Crow, David. 2010. Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts. 2nd ed.

Lausanne: AVA Academia.

Featherstone, Mike. 1990. “Perspectives on Consumption” Sociology 24, no. 1: 5-22.

Gaines, Elliot. 2011. Media Literacy and Semiotics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Grindstaff, Beverly. 2009. “Origins of Unsustainable Luxury.” Design Philosophy Papers,

Issue 2: 1-8.

Houze, Rebecca. 2016. New Mythologies in Design and Culture: Reading Signs and

Symbols in the Visual Landscape. New York: Bloomsbury.

Winge, Theresa M. 2008. “‘Green Is the New Black’: Celebrity Chic and the ‘Green’

Commodity Fetish." Fashion Theory 12, no. 4: 511.

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Urbanism and the Public

Aelbrecht, Patricia, Quentin Stevens, and Bobby Nisha. 2019. Public Space Design and

Social Cohesion: An International Comparison. New York: Routledge.

Ball, Timmah. 2018. "Imagining Lisa: Dreaming in Urban Areas." The Lifted Brow, no. 40:

90-96.

Batista, Anamarija, Szilvia Kovács, and Carina Lesky. 2017. Rethinking Density: Art,

Culture, and Urban Practices: Berlin: Sternberg Press.

Bell, David and Binnie, Jon. 2004. “Authenticating Queer Space: Citizenship, Urbanism and

Governance.” Urban Studies, Vol.41, No. 9: 1807-1820.

DiSalvo, Carl. 2009. “Design and the Construction of Publics” Design Issues, 25, no. 1: 48-

63.

Dovey, Kim. 2016. Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit: London; New York:

Bloomsbury Academic.

Kalms, Nicole. 2017. Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism: New York:

Routledge.

Madanipour, Ali. 2010. Whose Public Space?: International Case Studies in Urban Design

and Development. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis.

McQuire, Scott. 2008. The Media City, Media, Architecture and Urban Space. Los Angeles:

Sage.

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Socially Responsible Design

Bardzell, Shaowen. 2018. "Utopias of Participation: Feminism, Design, and the Futures."

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 25, no. 1: 1-24.

Resnick, Elizabeth. 2016. Developing Citizen Designers. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Rezai, Maziar, and Mitra Khazaei. 2017. "The Challenge of Being Activist-Designer. An

Attempt to Understand the New Role of Designer in the Social Change Based on

Current Experiences." The Design Journal 20, no. Sup1: 3516-535.

Sheehan, Norm W., Dunleavy, Janine, Cohen Tamar and Mitchell, Sean. 2010. “Denatured

Spirit: Neo-colonial Social Design” in The Havoc of Capitalism: Publics, Pedagogies

and Environmental Crisis, ed. Martin, Gregory, 99-116. Rotterdam; Boston: Sense

Publishers.

Simonsen, Jesper, and Robertson, Toni. 2013. “Participatory Design: An Introduction” in

Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design. New York: Routledge, 1-18.

Thorpe, Adam, and Gamman, Lorraine. 2011. "Design with Society: Why Socially

Responsive Design Is Good Enough." CoDesign 7, no. 3-4: 217-30.

Warwick, Laura. 2017. "Designing Trust: The Importance of Relationships in Social

Contexts." The Design Journal 20, no. Sup1: 3096-105.

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General Texts & Other Areas

Axel, Nick, Colomina, Beatriz, Hirsch, Nikolaus, Vidokle, Anton, and Wigley, Mark. 2018.

Superhumanity: Design of the Self. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Buchanan, Richard., Doordan, Dennis P, and Margolin, Victor. 2010. The Designed World:

Images, Objects, Environments. Oxford; New York: Berg Publishers.

Cartmel, Hannah, and Greenaway, Jefa. Blak Design Matters: National Survey of

Contemporary Indigenous Design. 2018. Melbourne: Koorie Heritage Trust.

Helfand, Jessica. 2016. Design and the Invention of Desire. Newhaven: Yale University

Press.

Maeda, John. 2006. The Laws of Simplicity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Margolin, Victor, and Richard Buchanan. 1995. The Idea of Design: A Design Issues

Reader. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Seitz, Tim. 2020. Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism: Sociological Reflections

on Innovation Culture. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Shelley, Cameron. 2017. Design and Society: Social Issues in Technological Design. Cham,

Switzerland: Springer.

Thackara, John. 2005. In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. Cambridge, Mass.:

MIT Press.