The design philosophy reader

Introduction / Anne-Marie Willis

The essence of design.

Introduction

The fault of Epimetheus / Bernard Stiegler

In the beginning / Tony Fry

A cautious Prometheus?: a few steps toward a philosophy of design / Bruno Latour

The depth of design / Albert Borgmann

Design as an ontological question / Tony Fry

Guide to further reading

The practice of design.

Introduction

Science, art and practical wisdom / Aristotle

The complication of Praxis / William McNeill

Technicity and publicness: steps towards an urban space / Stephen Read

The existential self as the locus of sustainability in design / Philippe d'Anjou

The science of the concrete / Claude Levi-Strauss

The textility of making / Tim Ingold

Guide to further reading

The ethos of design.

Introduction

Artifacts: the making sentient of the external world / Elaine Scarry

Ethics by design or the ethos of things / Cameron Tonkinwise

Precariousness and grievability / Jusith Butler

The one for the other / Adriaan Peperzak

Ethics in the making / Bodil Jönsson, et al

Guide to further reading

Design and the other.

Introduction

What is coloniality of knowledge? / Madina V. Tlostanova

Enframing / Timothy Mitchell

The violence of humanitarian design / Mahmoud Keshavarz

The force of form, the effect of genre / Francois Jullien

Why not an alphabet? / Lothar Ledderose

Guide to further reading

Being designed and things.

Introduction

The thing / Martin Heidegger

Materialism in not the solution: on matter and form / Graham Harman

Is design finished?: dematerialisation and changing things / Cameron Tonkinwise

Beyond Affordances / Michael May

Understanding, ontology, thrownness and readiness-to-hand / Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores

Smart meters don't make us any smarter / Elizabeth Shove and Sarah Royston

Matter and mattering or Why are things "us"? / Clive Dilnot

Guide to further reading

The designing of technology.

Introduction

Technology: instrumental metaphor and cybernetic system / Adrian Snodgrass

The question concerning technology / Martin Heidegger

Technical mentality / Gilbert Simondon, translated by Arne De Boever

The finite framework of language / Michael Heim

'This system does not produce pleasure anymore' / Bernard Stiegler

Guide to further reading

The designing of visuality.

Introduction

On form and imitation / Plato

The Plato effect in architecture / Christopher N. Henry

An art which imitates art / Pierre Bourdieu

Sign function and class logic / Jean Baudrillard

The production of space / Henri Lefebvre

Guide to further reading

Designing after the end.

Introduction

What is the anthro-political? / Claire Colebrook

The intrusion of Gaia / Isabelle Stengers

Cosmoecological sheep and the arts of living on a damaged planet / Viniciane Despret

Outing artificial intelligence: reckoning with Turing tests / Benjamin H. Bratton

The posthuman / Rosi Braidotti

Introducing 'the sustainment' / Tony Fry

Spinoza and us / Gilles Deleuze

Guide to further reading.