Seeing, Being, Doing: design - Reading List
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This is the collected reading and references list for the course that I, along with Navin Kushwah and Naveen Bagalkot, jointly delivered to 4th year Human-Centered Design (HCD) students.
| Type of Resource | Description | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zotero | Your personal research assistant | Zotero | - |
| Article | The Practitioner Model of Creative Cognition: A Potential Model for Creative Practice-Based Research | Scalar | - |
| Article | Outline of Practice-Based Method | Scalar | - |
| Article | Bengaluru’s Repair Cafe is Helping You Fix All Your Broken/Damaged Old Items | News18 | - |
| Article | Date with history: Chickpet was old Bengaluru’s central business district | The Economic Times | - |
| Article | Bangalore Pete - Placing Bengaluru | A Turquoise Cloud | - |
| Video | Go Playces: Orijit Sen - Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 | YouTube | - |
| Website | Feral Atlas | Feral Atlas | - |
| Article | “21 Days of”: A COVID-19 Autoethnography Experiment | Future Making Research Consortium | - |
| Website | AtelierNL - Sand Journey | AtelierNL | - |
| Video | Giorgia Lupi and Kaki King - Bruises - The Data We Don’t See | YouTube | - |
| Video | Community Owned Wireless Mesh (COW Mesh) - Janastu with the support of APC & Sida | YouTube | - |
| Article | Public Space and Life in an Indian City: The Politics of Space in Bangalore by Salila P.Vanka | Deep Blue | - |
| Article | Drawing the Bombay Plague - Science Gallery Bengaluru | Science Gallery Bengaluru | - |
| Video | COwHKI Movie | YouTube | - |
| Article | “A ‘Feminist’ Server to Help People Own Their Own Data” - THE BASTION | THE BASTION | - |
| Article | On imposed morality of different scales, and what a position-based response looks like | Selva_How_to_Read_Slums_English.pdf | - |
| Article | Baadal Nanjundaswamy - Activism through art: The journey of Baadal Nanjundaswamy | The Indian Express | - |
| Article | Today’s decrepit KR Market which will turn 100 this year was once a magnificent structure | The Times of India | - |
| Article | Reflective analysis in creative practice research | - | Reflective Practice, Auto-Ethnography |
| Article | Auto-ethnomethodology | Scalar | - |
| Article | Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies | - | |
| Article | Responsive Practice: Case Study - Medical Anthropology | - | - |
| Tweet | Twitter thread about data and surveillance | - | |
| Article | William Kentridge - Drawing Lesson One: In Praise of Shadows | YouTube | - |
| Article | Felix in Exile - William Kentridge | YouTube | - |
| Video | An Alarippu: Trailer | YouTube | - |
| Book | I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig | University of Chicago Press | - |
| Website | The Visual Abstract Database | Visual Abstract Database | - |
| Article | Early days of the Internet in India - Mafatlal and the early Indian Internet | Substack | - |
| Video | Data - Philosophy Tube | YouTube | - |
| Website | Anarchaserver | Anarchaserver | - |
| Magazine | PULP - An urban online magazine narrating stories of the everyday, the everywhere, and for everyone | PULP India | - |
| Website | Tacit Urban Research Network - Housing Research Archive | Tacit Urban Research Network | - |
| Mapping the Field class - Cüirtopia project | - | ||
| Article | “Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility” - Lisa Parks | Flow | - |
| Article | Uncivilizing Digital Territories - COMPOST Issue 02: Luandro | COMPOST | - |
| Article | The Art of Mapping Catalogue | The_Art_Of_Mapping_Catalogue.pdf | - |
| Instagram Account | Takweer - Digital archive mapping queerness and Arab history | Takweer تكوير | mapping, queer, Arab |
| Instagram Account | The Korean Archives | The Korean Archives | mapping, Korean |
| Website | The Living Waters Museum - Curating visual narratives on water heritage | The Living Waters Museum | water, heritage |
| Website | AI Observatory - Exploring the impacts of AI on society | AI Observatory | AI, technology, society |
| Website | Duke University Press - “Hydraulic City” book | Hydraulic City | urban studies, cities |
| Website | Solar Protocol - Website hosted on solar-powered servers | Solar Protocol | sustainability, solar power |
| Instagram Post | Lawrence Abu Hamdan - Audio investigation of aircraft sounds | Lawrence Abu Hamdan on Instagram | sound, investigation |
| Website | Mapping the Field - Spring 2021 Graduate Anthropology Studio | Mapping the Field | anthropology, mapping |
| Blog | Polis - Collective blog about cities worldwide | Polis | cities, urban |
| Article | IDR - Indian cities: For men, by men | IDR | gender, urban |
| YouTube Video | Wireless For Unconnected | Wireless For Unconnected | technology, connectivity |
| Article | The Hindu - A city that fell to the lure of trade | A city that fell to the lure of trade | history, trade |
| YouTube Video | Daniele Quercia - Happy maps | Daniele Quercia: Happy maps | maps, happiness |
| Website | Nagasaki Archive | Nagasaki Archive | archive, history |
| Website | Dialectograms - Mitch Miller’s visual narratives | Dialectograms- Mitch Miller | art, narratives |
| YouTube Video | Drummer brought memes to the NYC jazz fusion gig | Drummer brought memes to the NYC jazz fusion gig | music, performance |
| YouTube Video | The Queen of Trees - Official Documentary | The Queen of Trees - OFFICIAL | nature, documentary |
| Website | Annita Lucchesi - Maps | MAPS - alucchesi | mapping, indigenous |
| YouTube Video | Experiencing architecture through the senses | Experiencing architecture through the senses | architecture, senses |
| Article | Scroll.in - Bengaluru’s evolution through maps | Fourteen maps that chart Bengaluru’s evolution | Bengaluru, maps |
| Article | The Baffler - Care Tactics | Care Tactics - Laura Mauldin | care, society |
| Website | Tracing Public Space - Methodology for transforming public spaces | ABOUT- TRACING PUBLIC SPACE | public spaces, design |
| Website | Ranjits work - Visual storytelling and mapping | stories | visual storytelling, mapping |
| Article | Teaching Autoethnography - The Autoethnography Project | The Autoethnography Project | autoethnography, research |
| Website | Art Deco Mumbai - Photo documentation of Mumbai’s Art Deco | Recce, Mapping, Fieldwork | Mumbai, Art Deco |
| Article | The Baffler - Design is not going to save the world | Design is not going to save the world | design, society |
| Website | Nicky Case’s Projects | Nicky Case’s Projects | interactive, games |
| Website | Parable of the Polygons - Playable post on societal shape | Parable of the Polygons | playable, society |
| Website | See-Do-Be Design Resources on Notion | See-Do-Be Design Resources | design, resources |
| Website | The AutoEthnographer - Literary & Arts Magazine | The AutoEthnographer | autoethnography, literature |
| Article | Julian Dibbell - A Rape in Cyberspace | A Rape in Cyberspace | cyberspace, ethics |
| Website | Street Art Cities - Street art worldwide | Street Art Cities | street art, urban |
| YouTube Video | Scavengers - Short Film | Scavengers | film, short |
| Website | Nomadic Tribe - Interactive tale | Nomadic Tribe | interactive, storytelling |
| Book | Teaching Autoethnography - The AutoethnographyProject | The Autoethnography Project | autoethnography, education |
| Website | Art Deco Mumbai - Photo documentation of Mumbai’s Art Deco | Recce, Mapping, Fieldwork | Mumbai, Art Deco |
| Article | The Baffler - Design is not going to save the world | Design is not going to save the world | design, society |
| Website | Nicky Case’s Projects | Nicky Case’s Projects | interactive, games |
| Website | Parable of the Polygons - Playable post on societal shape | Parable of the Polygons | playable, society |
| Website | See-Do-Be Design Resources on Notion | See-Do-Be Design Resources | design, resources |
| Website | Maya Janine d’costa - Artistic practice | maya Janine d’costa maya Janine d’costa | art, site-specific |
| Article | Excuse Me, Is Your Tooth Ringing? | WIRED | Tooth Implant, Technology |
| Website | Mute Button Chronicles | mutebuttonchronicles.site | Documenting, Archiving, Practices |
| Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World | Cornell University | Documenting, Archiving, Networks | |
| Instagram Post | Nina Nayko on Instagram | Photography, Street Photography, Night Photography | |
| Comic Layout Mesh | Download | Comics, Design | |
| YouTube Video | Natak | YouTube | Theatre, Performance |
| YouTube Video | Rehearsing the Future | YouTube | Speculative Fiction, Speculative Narrative |
| Design Fiction Web Edition | Download | Design Fiction, Epistemology | |
| YouTube Video | VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGI 76 | YouTube | VFX, CGI |
| Twitter Thread | How to Use Ethnographic Field Notes in Paper Writing | Method, Ethnography | |
| YouTube Video | Raven | YouTube | Short Film, Animation |
| Article | Using Indigenous Metaphors in Research: Appropriating or Engaging? | Pulling Together: A Guide for Researchers | Research, Indigenous Metaphors |
| Wikipedia Article | Visual Autoethnography | Wikipedia | Method, Qualitative Research |
| Article | Seasonality: Human and Non-Human Patterns | Medium | Mapping, Affective Writing, Pattern Library |
| Article | Why Design Needs Copyleft | The Hard Copy | Design, Copyleft |
| Collection | Collection of Dances in Choreography Notation 1700 | Public Domain Review | Dance, Choreography |
| Website | Web Design as Architecture | Web Design as Architecture | Web Design, Architecture |
| Website | Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com | heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com | Satire, Email |
| Image | Hand & Gravity Studies | Are.na | Art, Studies |
| Old Maps | Old Maps of Bangalore | Wikimedia Commons | Maps, Bangalore |
| Article | Bangalore’s Disappearing Lakes | Guerrilla Cartography | Lakes, Bangalore |
| Website | Bangalore Pete | Turquoise Cloud | Bangalore, History |
| Website | INTACH Bangalore | INTACH Bangalore | Heritage, Bangalore |
| Article | Improvised Performances: Urban Ethnography and the Creative Tactics of Montreal’s Metro Buskers | Humanities | Ethnography, Buskers |
| Website | Digital Democracy | Digital Democracy | Democracy, Technology |
| Article | Sex in the Indian City | The Nib | Gender, Sexuality |
| Website | Gubbi Labs | Gubbi Labs | Research, Innovation |
| Article | Traffic Curbs for Karaga Today | Deccan Herald | Traffic, Karaga |
| Wikimedia Commons | Old Maps of Bangalore | Wikimedia Commons | Maps, Bangalore |
| Website | COMPOST Issue 01: Techno-Futures from Bidar | COMPOST | Reflection, Digital Storytelling |
| Website | COMPOST Issue 02: Re: Sister | COMPOST | Creative Autoethnography, Carework |
| Article | The Prompt Whisperer | Interconnected | Speculative Fiction, Worldbuilding |
| Elliott 2005: Using Narrative in Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches | Download | Narrative Research, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research | |
| Simonsen & Robertson 2013: Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design | Download | Participatory Design, Ethnography, Heritage, Ethics, Communities | |
| Website | BDA Revised Master Plan 2031 | OpenCity - Urban Data Portal | Masterplan, Bangalore |
| Website | BDA Revised Master Plan 2015 | OpenCity - Urban Data Portal | Masterplan, Bangalore |
| Article | Barefoot Walker’s Diary: Walking Without Shoes in Bengaluru | Deccan Herald | Bengaluru, Walking |
| Twitter Status | Chickpet Station on the Green Line | TheMetroRailGuy | Bengaluru Metro, Chickpet Station |
| Twitter Status | Entrances of Chickpet Station | TheMetroRailGuy | Bengaluru Metro, Chickpet Station |
| Twitter Status | Photo at Chickpet Metro Station | ArtinTransit_b | Bengaluru Metro, Chickpet Station |
| News Article | Hindi Nameplate of Chickpet Metro Station | CNN News18 | Bengaluru Metro, Chickpet Station |
| News Article | Trial Run from Feb 25: BMRCL | Bangalore Mirror | Bengaluru Metro, Trial Run |
| Google Earth Help | View a Map Over Time | Google Earth Help | Google Earth, Map |
| Interview | Improvement is a Continuous Process: Dinesh Gundu Rao | Citizen Matters, Bengaluru | Interview, Dinesh Gundu Rao |
| Website | Everyday City Lab | Everyday City Lab | Urban Design, Public Space Design |
| Website | Gubbi Labs | Gubbi Labs | Research, Innovation |
| Twitter Thread | How to Read Scientific Papers Effectively | Research, Scientific Papers | |
| Website | Something About Maps | somethingaboutmaps.com | Maps, Cartography |
| Website | Enter Sultana’s Reality | Enter Sultana’s Reality | Digital Storytelling, Virtual Experience |
| Website | 13 Ways | NCBS Archives | NCBS, Exhibition |
| Website | The Long Emergency | The Long Emergency | National Emergency, History |
| Website | Pad.ma | Pad.ma | Video Archive, Text Annotation |
| Website | IIA Archives | IIA Archives | Archival Collection, Manuscripts, Photographs |
| Interview | In Conversation with Kavita Devi | Feminism in India | Journalism, Media |
| Website | Redecentralize Digest | Redecentralize.org | Internet, Decentralization |
| Article | Miyazaki’s Urbanism | Strong Towns | Urban Design, Hayao Miyazaki |
| Course Syllabus | Critical Caste Tech Studies | CCTS | Caste, Technology |
| Article | Building More Resilient Social Impact Networks | SSIR | Social Impact, Networking |
| Article | Decolonize This Place | Decolonization, Columbia University | |
| Article | DIY Networking: The Path to a More Democratic Internet | The Conversation | Internet, Networking |
| Journal | Archive as Method | Asia Art Archive | - |
| Reflection | HCD Pre-thesis Making the Visual Abstract - Reflections Abirami Sankar | Google Docs | - |
| Document | Data governance | WP3-DTI-researchagenda-June21.pdf | - |
| Festival | The Kishori Film Festival 2021 | KiFi 2021 - Open Janastu | - |
| Toolkit | DisorganizingToolkit.pdf | - | - |
| Article | Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo | Harvard Business Review | - |
| Network | Dalit Archives | Dalit Archives | - |
| Tweet | Facebook users claim to hate the service | - | |
| Project | SENSE OF PLACE OF WOMEN VENDORS IN DEVARAJA MARKET, MYSORE | - | - |
| Article | Auto-letters from Kollam Town | Instagram Post | - |
| Document | B·LORE_ Call for Submissions.pdf | Google Drive | - |
| Mapping | Mapping political action and actors | 186.pdf | - |
| Article | How Chinese children and youth worked to overcome restrictions | Migrant Knowledge | - |
| Book | The cultural politics of emotion by Sara Ahmed | SplitPDFFile_150_to_174.pdf | - |
| Book | Mol - 1973 - The_logic_of_care-annotated.pdf | - | - |
| Scholarly Article | Hidden public spaces | Google Scholar | - |
| Document | 01_Chapter_1_final_to_share.pdf | - | - |
| News Article | Elgin theatre enters the pages of Bangalore’s history | Times of India | Communities, Tools and Techniques |
