In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World

By J. Thackara. 2005

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Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification (2006, background): “For example, they may point to the profligate and almost certainly unsustainable expenditures of energy that have arisen with the turn to information and communications technology and suggest design alternatives (Thackara 2005).”
The Nature of Design Practice and Implications for Interaction Design Research (2008, background): “Dealing with such messy and " wicked " situations constitutes the normal and everyday context of any design practice (Alexander, 1964; Dunne, 1993; Cross, 2001; Schön, 1983; Pye, 1995; Heskett, 2002; Rove, 1987; Lawson, 2005; Thackara, 2005).”
Fabricating materials from living organisms: An emerging design practice (2018, background): “The role of product designers in contributing to a cleaner system of production has long been emphasized by scholars in the field of sustainability (Thackara, 2006; Manzini, 2009; Ehrenfeld, 2008; Brezet, 1997; Vezzoli, 2003).”