Books by John Thackara
Wouldn't It be Great If... Designs of The Time Manual
London, Design Council, 2007.
In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005
www.thackara.com/inthebubble/
The New Geographies of Learning. Amsterdam: University of Professional Education (HvA), 2003
Winners! How Europe's Most Successful Companies Use Design To Innovate. London: Ashgate, 1999
Lost In Space: A Traveler's Tale, Haarlem: De Grafische Haarlem, 1994
DoPRom (Doors of Perception CDRom; co-editor)
Amsterdam: Mediamatic, 1994
Design After Modernism (Japanese edition, revised). Tokyo: Kajima, 1992
T-Zone (co-edited with Riiche Miyake) Brussels: Europalia (in association with Architectural Association) 1991
Image and Object: Nouveau Design de Londres (ed). Paris: Centre Pompidou, 1990
Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object (ed),
London: Thames and Hudson, 1988
Leading Edge (ed) Tokyo: Axis 1990
New British Design. Co-edited with Stuart Jane. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987
Chapters contributed to:
Eva Jiricna. London: Architectural Association, 1988
Daniel Weil. London: Architectural Association, 1988
Narrative Architecture Today. London : NATO Publications | Air Gallery, 1990
Urban Design Strategy For 2000, Tokyo: Tokyu / Kajima, 1990
Metropolis, ed Janet Abrams. London: Institute for Contemporary Arts, 1991
Formes des Metropoles, ed F Burkhardt. Paris, Centre Pompidou, 1992
Tokyo Design Visions, Toyo Ito, ed. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1992
Business by Design, John Kao ed. New York, Allworth, 1995
Edge of the Millenium, Susan Yelavitch ed. New York, Cooper Union, 1995
Eternally Yours. Ed van Hinte ed. Rotterdam: 010, 1997
Workspheres. Paola Antonelli, ed. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1998
The Style Engine. Giannino Malossi ed. New York: Chronicle, 1998
From Dada To Data. Amsterdam: Virtual Platform, 1998
Airport, Jeremy Miller and Michiel Schwarz eds. London: Photographers Gallery, 1998
Presence: Elders Online, Amsterdam: Netherlands Design Institute, 1999
New Media Culture In Europe, C Brickwood ed. Amsterdam: de Balie, 1999
If/Then, Janet Abrams ed. New York: DAP, 1999
Tresspassers, C Bakker and Ed van Hinte, eds. Rotterdam: 010, 1999
New Media New Narratives? Anne Burdick ed. New York: American Center for Design, 2000
The Design Challenge Of Pervasive Computing (Proceedings of CHI2000). New York, ACM: 2000
New Media: From Practice To Policy, Amsterdam: De Balie | Council Of Europe, 1999
Contole geven of nemen: een politieke agenda voor de informatie-samenleving. Krijn van Beek et al, eds. Infodrome / Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam. 2001
Beyond Media: Architecture and Video. Marco Brizzi and Paola Giaconia, eds. Editrice Compositori, Firenze. 2002
Creativity and the City. Amsterdam: Westergasfabriek, 2003
How To Be A Hub (Proceedings of Cumulus St Petersburg). Helsinki, UIAH, 2004
The Killer App Is Green. In Proceedings of NIC2001. New York: ACM, 2001
Next (Venice Architecture Biennale). D Sudjic, ed. Venice, 2003
Kaos Pilots A-Z. Uffe Elbek, ed. Aarhus: KaosPilots, 2004
Spark! Design And Local Knowledge. (Co-edited with Jan Verwijnen). Helsinki, UIAH|European Commission, 2004
Creativity and the City. Edited by Simon Franke and Evert Verhagen. NAi Publishers (Rotterdam) 2005
Uncommon Ground: Creative Encounters Across Sectors and Discplines. eds Cathy Brickwood, Bronac Ferran. BS Publishers. Amsterdam 2006
Experimenta February 2007 (page 155) Interview with John Thackara.
KaosPilots A-Z Edited by Uffe Elbeck
Flexibility: Design in a Fast-Changing Society, ed Guta Moura Guedes
Geodesign, Torino 2008
(Re-) searching a digital bauhaus. Eds Thomas Binder, Jonas Löwgren and Lone Malmborg. Malmo, November 2008
Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, J Chapman, ed, London, Earthscan, 2007
The design challenge of pervasive computing. Interactions archive
portal.acm.org/citation
Lost In Space
arts.uci.edu/thackara.html
Website, Newsletter , Blog
Doors of Perception
Online since 1994, the Doors website (now incorporating a blog) is visited by 800,000 people each year. http://www.doorsofperception.com/
Doors of Perception Report
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