For 2022, Turnstone’s pick of twenty-two (and more!) books and articles of general interest and those specifically related to Turnstone project research during 2020-21. About visualizing complexity, navigating futures, facilitating participation, from lockdown (spring 2020) to Omicron (winter 2021/22), all come highly recommended, and admittedly a few here still are on the top of the stack to be read or finished! Links denote articles available online, not books.
On Covid, quarantine and emergencies
- Christian Bason, Rowan Conway, Dan Hill, Mariana Mazzucato, A New Bauhaus for a Green Deal
- Gideon Lichfield, We’re not going back to normal, MIT Tech Review, March 17, 2020
- Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate and Chronic Emergency
- Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
On education, collaboration, communication
- Dark Matter Labs, Manual of We
- Russell Davies: Everything I Know About Life I learned from Powerpoint
- Jon Kolko, How I Teach: Reflecting on 15 Years in Design Education
On frailty and the future of work
- The Care Collective: The Care Manifesto, The Politics of Interdependence
- Kathy Charmaz, Good Days and Bad Days
- Jonathan Crary, 24/7, Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
- Dal Bello Rejane, Citizen First, Designer Second
On technology, innovation and social responsibility
- Adrian Daub: What Tech Calls Thinking, An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
- David Golumbia: The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-wing Extremism
- Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders, The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class
- Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail, a Novel
On the places and ways we live, play, and encounter each other
- Katherine Angel, Tomorrow the Sex Will Be Good Again
- Skye Arundhati Thomas, Michaela Coel Makes Us Feel Less Alone, Frieze
- Isaac Chotiner, Racism, Contagion, and the Dangers We Pose to One Another, New Yorker, 9/2021
- W. E. B. Du Bois, Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
- Shannon Mattern, Concealment and Compassion, The Places Journal
(see also her book, The City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences) - Mike Monteiro, The Collected Angers
- Alison B. Powell, Undoing Optimization: Civic Action in Smart Cities
Bonus tracks (or what you do with more than 22 recommendations)
- Rainald Goetz: Rave
- Illustrator Christoph Niemann Learns the Piano
- Beth Pickens, Make Your Art No Matter What
- Free drawing classes from famous illustrators, Fast Company
- Richard Rogers, A Place for All People
- Saskia Sassen, What Data Can’t See, Frieze, Nov 2019
- Upcoming in 2022: Shenja van der Graaf, Le Anh Nguyen Long, Carina Veekman, Co-creation and the City