The primary reading material for this course is located on the Design Led Futures website http://www.designledfutures.com. PDF books from previous projects can be downloaded and printed as required.
The following readings on 3 Day loan in the SOAD library are also recommended for this course:
C Garreau, Joel. (2004) Radical Evolution. New York, USA, Doubleday.
Gershenfeld, Neil. (2005) FAB, New York : Basic Books. T174 G381 F
Goldberg, Ken. (2000) Robot in the Garden, Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press. TJ211 R666
Halal, William. (2008) Technologies Promise, New York, USA. T174 H157 T http://www.techcast.org
Kurzweil, Raymond. (2005) Singularity is near, New York, USA Viking. QP376 K96 S
Mann, Steve. (2001) Cyborg, Canada, Doubleday. QA76.592 M282 C
Massad Fredy. Guerrero, Alicia Yeste. (2002) a+a architecturanimation. Barcelona, Spain, Actar. NA2728 A011.
McDonough, William. Braungart, Michael. (2002) Cradle to Cradle. New York, USA, North Point. TD94.5M136 C
Scholder, Amy. Crandall, Jordan. (2001) Interaction, New York, USA, Distributed Art Publishers. N72 E53 161
Sterling, Bruce. (2005) Shaping Things. Cambridge, USA, The MIT Press. T174 S838 S
Taylor, Mark C. (1997) Hiding. Chicago, USA, The University of Chicago Press. B105 S85 T244 H
Useful web resources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsHRltEVBc
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/12/hadza/finkel-text
http://www.georgehart.com/rp/rp.html
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/852715/desert-angel
http://www.wetanz.com/weta-workshop-services/showreel/
http://www.ted.com/talks/philippe_starck_thinks_deep_on_design.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/paola_antonelli_previews_design_and_the_elastic_mind.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_armstrong_architecture_that_repairs_itself.html