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December 11, 2004
How not to be a sad person
If you plan to travel overland to Doors 8, take these on-the-edge-of-design books with you to read on the trip. If you are a sad person, and have decided not to come, give them to a friend and feel better. Put your better suggestions in Comments.
1. Barba, Eugenio .The Paper Canoe: A Guide to Theatre Anthropology. London: Routledge, 1995
2. Benyus, Janine. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: Morrow, 1997.
3. Fernandez-Galiano, Luis. Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. 2000
4. Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millenium. London: Cape, 1992
5. Elbek, Uffe, ed. KaosPilot A–Z. Aarhus, Denmark, 2004
6. Gombrich, E. H. The Sense of Order. London: Phaidon, 1979
7. Gray, John. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Animals. London: Granta, 2002.
8. Holloway, Richard. Looking in the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2004
9. Hussey, Andrew. The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord. London: Cape, 2001
10. Levine, Robert. A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist. New York: Basic Books. 1997
Posted by John Thackara at December 11, 2004 09:48 PM
