Master of Strategic Design in Complexity
Reading List
Strategic Design
In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change. – Bryan Boyer, Justin W. Cook, and Marco Steinberg, 2011, Sitra.
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning – Stewart Brand, 2018, Journal of Design and Science, MIT Press.
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses – Dan Hill, 2014, Strelka Press
Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown, 2017, AK Press
Strategic Questioning – Fran Peavey, Creating A Future We Can Live With (IC#40), 1995, Context Institute
What Strategic Design Actually Is (And Isn’t) – Dr Chris Marmo, 2026, Paper Giant.
Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century (2nd ed.) – Maureen O’Hara and Graham Leicester, 2019, Triarchy Press Ltd.
Reimagining Design – Kevin Bethune, 2022, MIT
Medium Design – Keller Easterling, 2021, Verso
Society Driven Design – Hoda Judah Armani, 2024, BIS
Thinking in Systems – Donella H. Meadows, 2017, Chelsea Green
A Cautious Prometheus (PDF) – Bruno Latour, 2008, meeting of the Design History Society
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning – Stewart Brand, 2018, Journal of Design and Science, MIT Press.
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses – Dan Hill, 2014, Strelka Press
Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown, 2017, AK Press
Strategic Questioning – Fran Peavey, Creating A Future We Can Live With (IC#40), 1995, Context Institute
What Strategic Design Actually Is (And Isn’t) – Dr Chris Marmo, 2026, Paper Giant.
Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century (2nd ed.) – Maureen O’Hara and Graham Leicester, 2019, Triarchy Press Ltd.
Reimagining Design – Kevin Bethune, 2022, MIT
Medium Design – Keller Easterling, 2021, Verso
Society Driven Design – Hoda Judah Armani, 2024, BIS
Thinking in Systems – Donella H. Meadows, 2017, Chelsea Green
A Cautious Prometheus (PDF) – Bruno Latour, 2008, meeting of the Design History Society
Future Thinking
The Future of the World – Jenny Andersson, 2018, Oxford University Press
How to Future – Scott Smith with Madeline Ashby, 2020, Kogan Page
Future Cultures – Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith, 2023, Kogan Page
The Invention of Tomorrow – Suddendorf, Redshaw, Bulley, 2022, Basic Books
What is the Future? – John Urry, 2016, Polity
Sensemaking – Christian Madsjberg, 2019, Abacus
Seeing Around Corners – Rita McGrath, 2020, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Trend Forecaster’s Handbook – Martyn Raymond, 2019, Laurence King
A Call For a More-Than-Human Politics – Anab Jain, 2020, Medium Essay
Worldbuilding – imagining hopeful futures in a changing climate – Paul Graham Raven, 2024
How to Future – Scott Smith with Madeline Ashby, 2020, Kogan Page
Future Cultures – Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith, 2023, Kogan Page
The Invention of Tomorrow – Suddendorf, Redshaw, Bulley, 2022, Basic Books
What is the Future? – John Urry, 2016, Polity
Sensemaking – Christian Madsjberg, 2019, Abacus
Seeing Around Corners – Rita McGrath, 2020, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Trend Forecaster’s Handbook – Martyn Raymond, 2019, Laurence King
A Call For a More-Than-Human Politics – Anab Jain, 2020, Medium Essay
Worldbuilding – imagining hopeful futures in a changing climate – Paul Graham Raven, 2024
Research Methodologies
Just Enough Research (2nd Ed.) – Erika Hall, 2019, A Book Apart
Mixed Methods – Sam Ladner, 2019, self-pub.
The Art of Noticing – Rob Walker, 2019, Ebury
Rocking Qualitative Research – Ashley T. Rubin, 2021, Stanford
Street Photography – Valérie Jardin, 2017, Routledge
Convivial Toolbox – Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders & Pieter Jan Stappers, 2012, BIS
The User Research Team of One (2nd Ed.) – Leah Buley & Joe Natoli, 2024, Rosenfeld
After Method – John Law, 2004, Routledge
Mixed Methods – Sam Ladner, 2019, self-pub.
The Art of Noticing – Rob Walker, 2019, Ebury
Rocking Qualitative Research – Ashley T. Rubin, 2021, Stanford
Street Photography – Valérie Jardin, 2017, Routledge
Convivial Toolbox – Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders & Pieter Jan Stappers, 2012, BIS
The User Research Team of One (2nd Ed.) – Leah Buley & Joe Natoli, 2024, Rosenfeld
After Method – John Law, 2004, Routledge
Design Methods
Universal Methods of Design – Bella Martin & Bruce Hanington, 2019, Rockport
Design Methods – John Chris Jones, 1992, Wiley
Gamestorming – Dave Gray, Sunni Brown & James Macanufo, 2010, O’Reilly
Design Journeys Through Complex Systems – Peter Jones & Kristel Van Ael, 2022, BIS
“Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts – Bruno Latour. (1992). in Bijker, W. E. and Law, J. (eds) Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, pp. 225-58
The Craftsman – Richard Sennett, 2009, Penguin
How to with John Wilson – created by John Wilson, 2020-2023, HBO Entertainment
Design Methods – John Chris Jones, 1992, Wiley
Gamestorming – Dave Gray, Sunni Brown & James Macanufo, 2010, O’Reilly
Design Journeys Through Complex Systems – Peter Jones & Kristel Van Ael, 2022, BIS
“Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts – Bruno Latour. (1992). in Bijker, W. E. and Law, J. (eds) Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, pp. 225-58
The Craftsman – Richard Sennett, 2009, Penguin
How to with John Wilson – created by John Wilson, 2020-2023, HBO Entertainment
Design Futures
Discursive Design – Bruce M.Sharp & Stephanie M. Tharp, 2019, MIT
The Manual of Design Fiction – Bleeker, Foster, Girardin & Nova, 2023, Near Future Laboratory
A New History of the Future in 100 Objects – Adrien Hon, 2020, MIT
Make It So – Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessell, 2012,
Rosenfeld
The Manual of Design Fiction – Bleeker, Foster, Girardin & Nova, 2023, Near Future Laboratory
A New History of the Future in 100 Objects – Adrien Hon, 2020, MIT
Make It So – Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessell, 2012,
Rosenfeld
Innovation
Frame Innovation – Kees Dorst, 2015, MIT
Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson, 2011, Penguin
The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, 2001, Profile Books
How to Thrive in the Next Economy – John Thackara, 2017, Thames and Hudson
Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson, 2011, Penguin
The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, 2001, Profile Books
How to Thrive in the Next Economy – John Thackara, 2017, Thames and Hudson
Misc
The Dawn of Everything – David Graeber & David Wengrow, 2022, Penguin
Range – David Epstein, 2020, Macmillan
How Infrastructure Works – Deb Chachra, 2023, Torva
Dust – Jay Owens, 2023, Hodder & Stoughton
101 Water Wise Ways – Helen Moffat, 2018, Bookstorm
Helgoland – Caro Rovelli, 2022, Penguin
Range – David Epstein, 2020, Macmillan
How Infrastructure Works – Deb Chachra, 2023, Torva
Dust – Jay Owens, 2023, Hodder & Stoughton
101 Water Wise Ways – Helen Moffat, 2018, Bookstorm
Helgoland – Caro Rovelli, 2022, Penguin
Index