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Readings and Bibliography

This course requires that you dedicate time outside of class to read articles for each weeks classes. These citations can be used as starting points for your research papers and give a deeper understanding of the topic. Nov. 2 Consumption Theory

Readings
Sept. 14 Reproduction and Meaning

Baudrillard, Jean. Part 2: The Theory of Consumption The Social Logic of Consumption. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. (London : Sage Publications,1999): 49-68. Foster, Hal. Design and Crime. (London : Verso, 2002): 3-26. Nov. 9 The Ethics of Aesthetics

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. (London : BBC/Penguin Books.1983): 7-45. Walter Benjamin, Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in Guins, Raiford and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz. Popular Culture A Reader. (London, Sage Publications, 2005): 96-106 Sept. 21 Human Centered Design

Thomas McEvilley, What is at Stake in the Culture Wars? In Richard Roth and Susan King Roth, Beauty is Nowhere (Amsterdam: G+B Arts, 1998): 17 36. Dick Hebdige, The Bottom Line on Planet One: Squaring up to The Face. In Jessica Evans, Stuart Hall, eds., Visual Culture: The Reader. (London: Sage, 1999): 99 124. Nov. 16 Advertising and Branding

Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things. (New York : Basic Books (Perseus), 2002): 1-33. Margolin, Victor. The Politics of The Artificial. The Politics of The Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies. (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2002): 106-123. Sept. 28 Sustainability

Klein, Naomi. No logo: no space, no choice, no jobs: taking aim at the brand bullies. (Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2000): 2-26. Baudrillard, Jean. The System of Objects. Trans. James Benedict. (London : Verso,1999): 164-178. Nov. 23 Objects of Desire: Shopping

McDonough, William and Michael . Cradle to cradle : remaking the way we make things. (New York : North Point Press, 2002): 17-44. Papanek, Victor. The Green Imperative: Natural Design for the Real World. (New York : Thames and Hudson, 1995): 49-74. Oct. 19 Natural Capitalism

Leong, Sze Tsung. And then there was shopping In Chinua, Inaba, Koolhaas, Leong, eds., Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. (Kln: Taschen, 2001): 129 155. Chinua, Inaba, Koolhaas, Leong. Scope. In Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. (Kln: Taschen, 2001): 51 71. Nov. 30 The Economics of World Redesign

Karl Marx. Commodity Fetishism. In Capital, Vol. 1. Trans. Ben Fowkes. (New York: Vintage, 1977): 163 165 David Smith, Phil Evans. Kapital for Beginners. (New York: Pantheon, 2001): 30 43.

Bruce Mau. Urban Economies. In Massive Change (New York: Phaidon, 2004): 30 45. Mark Kingwell et al. Reimagining the Waterfront. Toronto Life 36 no. 9 (June 2002): 81 101. David Reinfurt, I Was Thinking the Other Day about One Possible Scenario for a Collective Future. In Steven Heller and Vronique Vienne, Citizen Designer (New York: Allworth Press, 2003): 159 174.
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Bibliography
Alfred, Gerald J., Charles T. Brusaw & Walter E. Oliu. Handbook of Technical Writing. 6th Ed. (Boston and New York : Bedford/St. Martins, 2000). Barthes, Roland. The Semiotic Challenge. (University of Berkeley : California Press, 1994). Baudrillard, Jean. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. (London : Sage Publications. 1999). Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. (London : British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, [1990], c1972). Brown, Stuart, Diane Collinson and Robert Wilkinson. One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers. (London : Routledge, 1998). Buchanan, Richard and Victor Margolin., ed. The Idea of Design. (Cambridge, MA. : MIT Press, 1996). Buchanan, Richard and Victor Margolin., ed. Discovering Design. (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press. 1995). Chung, Judy Chuihua, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas and Sze Tsung Leong eds. Project on the City 2: Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. (Koln : Taschen, 2001). Collinson, Diane. Fifty Major Philosophers: A Reference Guide. (London : Routledge, 1987). Foster, Hal. Recodings. Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics. (New York : The New Press, 1985). Foster, Hal. Design and Crime. (London : Verso, 2002). Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th Edition. (New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2003). Guins, Raiford and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz. Popular Culture A Reader. (London, Sage Publications, 2005). Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. (Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1999). Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce: A

Declaration of Sustainability. (New York : HarperBusiness Publishers, 1994). Horn, Robert E. Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century. (Banbridge Island, Washington : MacroVU, Inc., 1998). Klein, Naomi. No logo: no space, no choice, no jobs: taking aim at the brand bullies. (Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2000. 2-26). Knobil, Marcel. ed. Cool Brand Leaders: An Insight into Britains Coolest Brands 2002. (London : Superbrands, 2002). LeGates, Richard T and Frederic Stout. The City Reader. 2nd. ed. (London : Routledge, 1996, 2000). Marx, Karl. Capital, Vol. 1. Trans. Ben Fowkes. (New York: Vintage, 1977): 163 165 Margolin, Victor. The Politics of The Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies. (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press. 2002). Margolin, Victor. ed. Design Discourse. (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1989). MacCracken, Grant. Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities. (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1988). McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. (New York : Kitchen Sink Press (HarperPerennial), 1993). McDonough, William and Michael . Cradle to cradle : remaking the way we make things. (New York : North Point Press, 2002). McLuhan, Marshall, Media Hot and Cold, from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964 McLuhan, Marshall and Eric, Laws of Media: The New Science, (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1988). Messenger, William E. and Jan de Bruyn. The Canadian Writers Handbook. 2nd ed. (Scarborough, Ont. : PrenticeHall, 1986).

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Norman, Donald A.. The Psychology of Everyday Things. (New York : Basic Books, 1988). Papanek, Victor. The Green Imperative: Natural Design for the Real World. (New York : Thames and Hudson, 1995). Pye, David. The nature and aesthetics of design. London : Herbert Press, 1988, 1978. Richard Roth, Richard and Susan King Roth, Beauty is Nowhere. (Amsterdam, G+B Arts, 1998). Smith, David and Phil Evans. Kapital for Beginners. (New York: Pantheon, 2001): 30 43. Strunk, William Jr., E.B. White and Roger Angell. The Elements of Style, 4th ed. (Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 2000). Sturkin, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001. Underhill, Paco. Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping. (New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999). Vicente, Kim J. The human factor : revolutionizing the way people live with technology. (Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003). Periodicals Design Issues. Cambridge: MIT Press. Design Studies. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science. Eye Magazine. London : Quantum House. Frame. Amsterdam : Peter Huiberts. Metropolis. New York : Bellerophon Publications Inc. Print. Rockville, MD. : RC Publications. Visible Language. Cleveland : MIT Press. www.id.iit.edu/visiblelanguage Print. Rockville, MD. : RC Publications. Visible Language. Cleveland : MIT Press. www.id.iit.edu/visiblelanguage

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