A range of new titles have been recently purchased for the Library, to complement the library's existing holdings and in a direct response to developing the Library Collections for MA Course requirements.
The artist as culture producer
: living and sustaining a creative life / edited by Sharon Louden.
(2017)
709.22 LOU
When
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life was published in 2013, it became an
immediate sensation. Edited by Sharon Louden, the book brought together forty
essays by working artists, each sharing their own story of how to sustain a
creative practice that contributes to the ongoing dialogue in contemporary art.
The book struck a nerve how do artists really make it in the world today?
Louden took the book on a sixty-two-stop book tour, selling thousands of
copies, and building a movement along the way.Now, Louden returns with a
sequel: forty more essays from artists who have successfully expanded their
practice beyond the studio and become change agents in their communities. There
is a misconception that artists are invisible and hidden, but the essays here demonstrate
the truth artists make a measurable and innovative economic impact in the
non-profit sector, in education, and in corporate environments. The Artist as
Culture Producer illustrates how today's contemporary artists add to creative
economies through out-of-the-box thinking while also generously contributing to
the well-being of others.By turns humorous, heartbreaking, and instructive, the
testimonies of these forty diverse working artists will inspire and encourage
every reader from the art student to the established artist. With a foreword by
Hyperallergic cofounder and editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian, The Artist as
Culture Producer is set to make an indelible mark on the art world redefining
how we see and support contemporary artists.Louden will be undertaking another
book tour, with stops across the United States and even into Australia. More
information and tour dates can be found online at www.livesustain.org.
Conceptual design for
interactive systems : designing for performance and user experience /
Avi Parush. (2015)
004.019 PAR
Conceptual
Design for Interactive Systems: Designing for Performance and User Experience
provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the steps necessary to take the
leap from research and requirements to product design. The text presents a
proven strategy for transforming research into a conceptual model, discussing
the iterative process that allows users to build the essential foundation for a
successful interactive system, while also taking the users’ mental model into
consideration. Readers will gain a better understanding of the framework they
need to perceive, understand, and experience their tasks and processes in the
context of their products. The text is ideal for those seeking a proven,
innovative strategy for meeting goals through intuitive and effective thinking.
Provides a practical, guiding approach that can be immediately applied to
everyday practice and study.
Complete analysis and explanation of conceptual modeling and its value
Discusses the implications of effective and poor conceptual models
Presents a step-by-step process, allowing users to build the essential
foundation for a successful interactive system
Design : the invention of
desire / Jessica Helfand. ([2016])
745.4 HEL
A
compelling defense for the importance of design and how it shapes our behavior,
our emotions, and our lives Design has always prided itself on being relevant
to the world it serves, but interest in design was once limited to a small
community of design professionals. Today, books on "design thinking"
are best sellers, and computer and Web-based tools have expanded the definition
of who practices design. Looking at objects, letterforms, experiences, and even
theatrical performances, award-winning author Jessica Helfand asserts that
understanding design's purpose is more crucial than ever. Design is meaningful
not because it is pretty but because it is an intrinsically humanist
discipline, tethered to the very core of why we exist. For example, as
designers collaborate with developing nations on everything from more
affordable lawn mowers to cleaner drinking water, they must take into
consideration the full range of a given community's complex social needs.
Advancing a conversation that is unfolding around the globe, Helfand offers an
eye-opening look at how designed things make us feel as well as how-and
why-they motivate our behavior.
Empathy : why it matters, and
how to get it / Roman Krznaric. (2015)
152.41 KRZ
Influential
popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social
connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are. It's an essential,
transforming quality we must develop for the 21st Century. Through encounters
with actors, activists, groundbreaking designers, undercover journalists,
nurses, bankers and neuroscientists, Krznaric defines a new breed of adventurer.
He sets out the six life-enhancing habits of highly empathic people, whose
skills enable them to connect with others in extraordinary ways. Empathy
has the power to transform relationships, from the personal to the political.
Krznaric contends that, as we move on from an age of introspection, empathy
will be key to fundamental social change - making this book a manifesto for
revolution.
The hidden pleasures of life :
a new way of remembering the past and imagining the future /
Theodore Zeldin. (2016)
158.2 ZEL
The
story of a search for a new art of living. How can one escape from work
colleagues who are bores and from organisations that thrive on stress? What new
priorities can people give to their private lives? When the romantic ideal is
disappointing, how else can affections be cultivated? If only a few can become
rich, what substitute is there for dropping out? If religions and nations
disagree, what other outcomes are possible beyond strife or doubt? Where there
is too little freedom, what is the alternative to rebellion? When so much is
unpredictable, what can replace ambition?
Questions include: What is the great adventure of our time? What is a wasted
life? How can people lose their illusions about themselves? What alternatives
are there to being a rebel? What can the poor tell the rich? What could the
rich tell the poor? How many ways of committing suicide are there? How can an
unbeliever understand a believer? How can a religion change? How can prejudices
be overcome? How can one think about the future, without trying to predict it
or worrying about it? Is ridicule the most effective form of non-violent
protest? How does one acquire a sense of humour? What stops people feeling
completely at home in their own country? How many nations can one love at the
same time? Why do so many people feel unappreciated, unloved and not fully
alive? How else might women and men treat one another? What can replace the
shortage of soul-mates? Is another kind of sexual revolution achievable? What
can artists aim for beyond self-expression? What is more interesting than
becoming a leader? What is the point of working so hard? Are there more amusing
ways of earning a living? What else can one do in a hotel? What more can the
young ask of their elders? Is remaining young at heart enough to avoid becoming
old? What is worth knowing? What does it mean to be alive? Where can one find
nourishment for the mind?
Making futures : marginal
notes on innovation, design, and democracy / edited by Pelle Ehn,
Elisabet M. Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard. ([2014])
303.483 EHN
Innovation
and design need not be about the search for a killer app. Innovation and design
can start in people's everyday activities. They can encompass local services,
cultural production, arenas for public discourse, or technological platforms.
The approach is participatory, collaborative, and engaging, with users and
consumers acting as producers and creators. It is concerned less with making
new things than with making a socially sustainable future. This book describes
experiments in innovation, design, and democracy, undertaken largely by
grassroots organizations, non-governmental organizations, and multi-ethnic
working-class neighborhoods. These stories challenge the dominant perception of
what constitutes successful innovations. They recount efforts at social
innovation, opening the production process, challenging the creative class, and
expanding the public sphere. The wide range of cases considered include a
collective of immigrant women who perform collaborative services, the
development of an open-hardware movement, grassroots journalism, and hip-hop
performances on city buses. They point to the possibility of democratized
innovation that goes beyond solo entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing in the
service of corporations to include multiple futures imagined and made locally
by often-marginalized publics. ContributorsMans Adler, Erling Bjorgvinsson,
Karin Book, David Cuartielles, Pelle Ehn, Anders Emilson, Per-Anders Hillgren,
Mads Hobye, Michael Krona, Per Linde, Kristina Lindstrom, Sanna Marttila, Elisabet
M. Nilsson, Anna Seravalli, Pernilla Severson, Asa Stahl, Lucy Suchman, Richard
Topgaard, Laura Watts
Material synthesis : fusing
the physical and the computational / guest editor, Achim Menges.
(2015)
721.04 MEN
Material
Synthesis: Fusing the Physical and the Computational Guest–edited by Achim
Menges
A new understanding of the material in
architecture is fast emerging. Designers are no longer conceiving of the
digital realm as separate from the physical world. Instead computation is being
regarded as the key interface for material exploration and vice versa. This
represents a significant perceptual shift in which the materiality of
architecture is no longer seen to be a fixed property and passive receptor of
form, but is transformed into an active generator of design and an adaptive
agent of architectural performance. In stark contrast to previous linear and
mechanistic modes of fabrication and construction, materialisation is now
beginning to coexist with design as explorative robotic processes. This
represents a radical departure from both the trite modernist emphasis on ′truth
to materials′ and the dismissal of materials by the previous generation of
digital architects.
The issue features designers, researchers and
thinkers that are at the forefront of exploring new modes of material enquiry
and its deep interrelationship with technology, biology and culture. Through
their work, which unfolds from multifaceted alliances between the fields of
design, engineering and natural sciences, it seeks to trace the emergence of a
novel material culture in architecture.
Architectural
and engineering contributors include: Sean Ahlquist, Martin Bechthold, Philippe
Block, Karola Dierichs, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Neri Oxman, Steffen
Reichert and Tobias Schwinn.
Scientific and philosophical perspectives
provided by: Mario Carpo, Manuel De Landa, Neil Gershenfeld and Thomas Speck.
Features the design research of: Harvard′s
Material Processes and Systems Group, MIT′s Mediated Matter Group and Stuttgart
University′s Institute for Computational Design.
Photography and the art of
chance / Robin Kelsey. (2015)
770 KEL
As
anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to
chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a
mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the
aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world.
Photography and collaboration
: from conceptual art to crowdsourcing / Daniel Palmer.
(2017)
770 PAL
Photography
and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art
photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional
accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this
book investigates the idea that authorship in photography is often more complex
and multiple than we imagine - involving not only various forms of partnership
between photographers, but also an astonishing array of relationships with
photographed subjects and viewers. Thematic chapters explore the increasing
prevalence of collaborative approaches to photography among a broad range of
international artists - from conceptual practices in the 1960s to the most
recent digital manifestations. Positioning contemporary work in a broader
historical and theoretical context, the book reveals that collaboration is an
overlooked but essential dimension of the medium's development and potential.
Platform revolution : how
networked markets are transforming the economy - and how to make them work for
you / Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul
Choudary. ([2016])
658.872 PAR
Facebook,
PayPal, Alibaba, Uber-these seemingly disparate companies have upended entire
industries by harnessing a single phenomenon: the platform business model.
Platform Revolution delivers the first comprehensive analysis of how platforms
use technology to match producers and consumers in a multisided marketplace,
unlocking hidden resources and creating new forms of value. When a company like
Uber connects drivers with passengers, everybody wins- except traditional taxi
companies, which are scrambling to survive. Assumptions about operations,
finance, strategy and innovation all change. Platform Revolution explores the
what, how and why of this revolution and provides the first "owner's
manual" for creating a platform marketplace. Revealing the strategies
behind some of today's rising platforms, the authors explain how
entrepreneurs-and traditional companies- can thrive in this new world. In cases
as diverse as shoes, spices, dating, energy, home appliances and education,
Platform Revolution provides the essential guide to unlocking the potential of
an economic landscape transformed.
Researching creative learning
: methods and issues / edited by Pat Thomson and Julian
Sefton-Green. (c2011)
371.102 THO
It is
a common ambition in society and government to make young people more creative.
These aspirations are motivated by two key concerns: to make experience at
school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic; and to ensure that
young people are able and fit to leave education and contribute to the creative
economy that will underpin growth in the twenty-first century.
Transforming these common aspirations into
informed practice is not easy. It can mean making many changes:
turning classrooms into more exciting
experiences;
introducing more thoughtful challenges into the
curriculum;
making teachers into different kinds of
instructors;
finding more authentic assessment processes;
putting young people’s voices at the heart of
learning.
There are programmes, projects and initiatives
that have consistently attempted to offer such change and transformation. The
UK programme Creative Partnerships is the largest of these, but there are
significant initiatives in many other parts of the world today, including
France, Norway, Canada and the United States. This book not only draws on this
body of expertise but also consolidates it, making it the first methodological
text exploring creativity.
Creative teaching and learning is often used as
a site for research and action research, and this volume is intended to act as
a textbook for this range of courses and initiatives. The book will be a key
text for research in creative teaching and learning and is specifically
directed at ITE, CPD, Masters and doctoral students.
Smart textiles for designers :
inventing the future of fabrics / Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman.
(2016)
677.0283 PAI
Smart
Textiles for Designers introduces the different qualities and properties that
can be embedded in, integrated with, and applied to fabrics and looks at the
different contexts in which these smart textiles can be used, from healthcare
to haute couture, firefighting to sportswear. A survey of specific fabrics
grouped by properties provides a core reference section and a palette for the
designer to work from. The book also examines five different design approaches
and features interviews with leading designers and design teams, showing their
processes and working methods.
Stained glass work : a
text-book for students and workers in glass / by C. W. Whall ; with
diagrams by two of his apprentices and other illustrations ; with an
introduction by Peter Cormack. (2010)
748.50282 WHA
A
Text-Book for Students and Workers in Glass by the artist Christopher Whitworth
Whall, first published in 1905 in the Artistic Crafts Series of Technical
Handbooks.
Tomorrow's world : a look at
the demographic and socio-economic structure of the world in 2032 /
Clint Laurent. ([2013])
304.60905 LAU
How
the world′s demographic and socio–economic landscape will change over the next
two decades
Tomorrow′s World maps out the world′s near future through the lens of
demography, dealing with issues of health and wealth; death and taxes; buying
and selling; education and progress; and how and where we choose to live. The
last century saw the world′s population quadruple, the emergence of mega–cities
and increased urbanisation, and large changes in fertility, mortality,
healthcare, education, and income. The world we live in today was profoundly
shaped by those changes. This book looks at what′s happening now and how
demographic changes will reshape the twenty–first century. It highlights the
most significant current demographic realities and explains the implications
they′ll have for our near future. If you run a business, manage a brand, or
just want to know what the future looks like, Tomorrow′s World is a must–read.
A vitally important look at demographic trends how they will effect labour,
education, population, economics, and business in this century. Written by the
founder and Managing Director of Global Demographics Ltd., a leading
demographic agency that consults with companies on market and business planning.
If you ever wanted to know what tomorrow′s world will look like, you have to
start by looking at the world today. This book reveals how the experts expect
our socio–economic landscape to evolve, identifying threats and opportunities
along the way.
Unflattening / Nick
Sousanis. (2015)
741.501 SOU
The
primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the
two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and
drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening" is an experiment in visual
thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to
offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into
the ways humans construct knowledge. Unflattening "is an insurrection
against the fixed viewpoint. Weaving together diverse ways of seeing drawn from
science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, it" uses the
collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active
process of incorporating and re-evaluating different vantage points. While its
vibrant, constantly morphing images occasionally serve as illustrations of
text, they more often connect in nonlinear fashion to other visual references
throughout the book. They become allusions, allegories, and motifs, pitting
realism against abstraction and making us aware that more meets the eye than is
presented on the page. In its graphic innovations and restless shape-shifting,
Unflattening "is meant to counteract the type of narrow, rigid thinking
that Sousanis calls flatness. Just as the two-dimensional inhabitants of Edwin
A. Abbott s novella Flatland" could not fathom the concept of upwards,
Sousanis says, we are often unable to see past the boundaries of our current
frame of mind. Fusing words and images to produce new forms of knowledge,
Unflattening" teaches us how to access modes of understanding beyond what
we normally apprehend."
The upstarts : how Uber,
Airbnb and the killer companies of the new silicon valley are changing the
world / Brad Stone. (2017)
658.11 STO
Ten
years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger’s car, or walking into a
stranger’s home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it’s as
common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb are household names:
redefining neighbourhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business
and changing the way we travel. In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley
renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, a new generation of entrepreneurs is
sparking yet another cultural upheaval through technology. They are among the
Upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of
self-confidence. Young, hungry and brilliant, they are rewriting the
traditional rules of business, changing our day-to-day lives and often
sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process. The Upstarts
is the definitive account of a dawning age of tenacity, creativity, conflict
and wealth. In Brad Stone’s highly anticipated and riveting account of the most
radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we find out how it all started,
and how the world is wildly different than it was ten years ago.
Visual, narrative and creative
research methods : application, reflection and ethics / Dawn
Mannay. (2015)
300.72 MAN
Visual research methods are quickly becoming key topics of interest and are now
widely recognised as having the potential to evoke emphatic understanding of
the ways in which other people experience their worlds. Visual, Narrative and
Creative Research Methods examines the practices and value of these visual
approaches as a qualitative tool in the field of social science and related
disciplines. This book is concerned with the process of applying visual methods
as a tool of inquiry from design, to production, to analysis and dissemination.
Drawing on research projects which reflect real world situations, you will be
methodically guided through the research process in detail, enabling you to
examine and understand the practices and value of visual, narrative and
creative approaches as effective qualitative tools.
Key topics include: techniques of data production, including collage, mapping,
drawing and photographs; the practicalities of application; the positioning of
the researcher; interpretation of visual data; images and narratives in public
spaces; evaluative analysis of creative approaches.
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§ 001.4 Research
methodologies and study skills
§ 121.68 Structuralism
§ 150.195 Psychology
§ 170 Ethics
§ 190 Philosophers A-Z
§ 200 Religion
§ 302.23 Media studies
§ 303.483 Digital culture
§ 305.4 Feminism
§ 305.3 Queer theory
§ 305.8 Race and ethnography
§ 306 Consumer culture and
anthropology
§ 321 Political systems
§ 325.3 Colonialism and
imperialism
§ 330 Capitalism and economics
§ 335 Socialism
§ 335.4 Marxism
§ 370 Educational theory
§ 701 Art theory and criticism
§ 701.09047 Aesthetics
§ 701.4 Semiotics
§ 707 Art education
§ 708 Curatorship
§ 801.95 Literary theory and
poetics
Art Theory and History
§ 701.0904 Twentieth century art
theory
§ 701.09047 Aesthetics
§ 701.0905 Twenty-first century
art theory
§ 701.4 Semiotics
§ 707 Art education
§ 708 Curatorship
§ 709.04 Twentieth century art
history
§ 709.05 Twenty-first century
art history
§ 770.1 Photography theory
§ 791.43 Film theory
Artists A-Z
§ 709.2 Multi-disciplinary
artists A-Z
§ 730.92 Sculptors A-Z
§ 750.92 Painters A-Z
§ 769.092 Printmakers A-Z
§ 779 Photographers A-Z
§ 709.22 Video artists A-Z
International Contemporary Art
§ 709.394 Middle East
§ 709.410904-05 Britain
§ 709.430904-05 Germany
§ 709.440904-05 France
§ 709.510904-05 China
§ 709.520904-05 Japan
§ 709.540904-05 India
§ 709.730904-05 America
§ 709.80904-05 Latin America
Genre and Theme
§ 700.285 Electronic and digital
art
§ 702.8112 Performance art and
the body
§ 709.04073 Sound art
§ 710 Public art
§ 710.05 Graffiti and street art
§ 735.23 Installation art
§ 741.34 Anatomy and
life-drawing
