These books, articles, videos, and podcasts all inform the course, and prep work for class will be selected from these sources.
BOOKS
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action by Donald Schon
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
The Mechanical Design Process by David G. Ullman
Design Thinking by Nigel Cross
What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Designed World by Sara Hendren
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart and William McDonough
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Designing Engineers by Louis L. Bucciarelli
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity by Sanjoy Mahajan
A Whole New Engineer by David Goldberg and Mark Sommerville
To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski
Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists by Dustyn Roberts
PAPERS
McGowan, V. C., & Bell, P. (2020). Engineering Education as the Development of Critical Sociotechnical Literacy. Science and Education, 29(4), 981–1005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-020-00151-5
Irani, L. (2018). “Design thinking”: Defending silicon valley at the apex of global labor hierarchies. Catalyst : Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 4(1) doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v4i1.29638
Ullman, D. G. (2010). Chapter 6: Understanding the problem and the development of engineering specifications. In The Mechanical Design Process (4thed.). McGraw-Hill.
Bakker, C. A., Wever, R., Teoh, C., & De Clercq, S. (2010). Designing cradle-to-cradle products: a reality check. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 3(1), 2-8.
Kolko, Jon (2017), “The Divisiveness of Design Thinking”, in Interactions Magazine, XXV.3, May-June 2018. http://jonkolko.com/writingDesignThinking.php
Irani, L., & Chowdhury, R. (2019, August 2). To Really “Disrupt,” Tech Needs to Listen to Actual Researchers. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/tech-needs-to-listen-to-actual-researchers/
Mitcham, C. (2019, November 12). The True Grand Challenge for Engineering: Self-Knowledge. Issues in Science and Technology. https://issues.org/perspectives-the-true-grand-challenge-for-engineering-self-knowledge/
National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Engineering, Social Justice, and Sustainable Community Development: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/12887.
Schlect, L., & Yang, M. (2014). Impact of prototyping resource environments and timing of awareness of constraints on idea generation in product design. Technovation, 34(4), 223-231.
Yilmaz, S., Daly, S. R., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2015). How do designers generate new ideas? Design heuristics across two disciplines. Design Science, 1.
Daly, S. R., Yilmaz, S., Christian, J. L., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2012). Design heuristics in engineering concept generation. Journal of Engineering Education 101(4), pp. 601–629
OTHER MEDIA
99% Invisible Podcast, Roman Mars, https://99percentinvisible.org/
NAE. (n.d.). Grand Challenges – Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure. Engineeringchallenges.Org. http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/9136.aspx
IDEO. (n.d.). Design Kit: The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design. Designkit.Org. https://www.designkit.org/resources/1
IDEO: Shopping Cart Design Process. (2017, September 29). [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izjhx17NuSE
From park bench to lab bench – What kind of future are we designing? | Ruha Benjamin | TEDxBaltimore. (2015, February 5). [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8RrX4hjCr0
Stanford d.school. (n.d.). Tools for taking action. https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources
Specifically: Design Thinking Bootleg cards, d.school Starter Kit, Equity Centered Design Framework, Design Project Scoping Guide
Brown, H. T. (n.d.). 507 Mechanical Movements. 507 Mechanical Movements. http://507movements.com/index08.htmlAllied Media Projects. (2020, December 17). Resources Overview. Design Justice Network. https://designjustice.org/resources-overview