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an ontological design studio
"In ontological designing we are doing more than asking what can be built. We are engaging in a philosophical discourse about the self – about what we can do and what can be. Tools are fundamental to action, and through our actions we generate the world. The transformation we are concerned with is not a technical one, but a continuing evolution of how we understand our surroundings and ourselves – of how we continue becoming the beings we are."- Fernando Flores & Terry Winograd
"What human beings are and will become is decided in the shape of our tools no less than in the action of statesmen and political movements. The design of technology is thus an ontological decision fraught with political consequences. The exclusion of the vast majority from participation in this decision is profoundly undemocratic."- Andrew Feenberg
"It is the kind of human we are, at the moment in which we have access to technology, either as users or observers, what determines how we use it or what we see in it."- Peter Bond
literature review
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Deschooling Society
Ivan Illich, 1970
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire, 1970
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God is Red: A Native View of Religion
Vine Deloria Jr, 1972
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Understanding Computers and Cognition
Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores, 1987
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Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life
David Bohm & F. David Peat, 1987
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Educating the Reflective Pracitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning Professions
Donald A. Schon, 1991
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Wicked Problems in Design Thinking
Richard Buchanan, 1992
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco J. Varela, 1994
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In Search of Good Form
Joseph C. Zinker, 1994
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Three Essays and an Introduction
Vilém Flusser, 1995
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From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at a Crossroads
Andrew Feenberg, 2000
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Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisted
Andrew Feenberg, 2002
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff & Mark Johnson, 2003
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Paradox: A Gestalt Theory of Change
Herb Stevenson, 2004
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Maturana, Technology, and Art: Is a Biology of Cognition Possible?
Peter Bond, 2004
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Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into the Native American Worldview
F. David Peat, 2005
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How Do You Design?
Hugh Dubberly, 2005
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On the Coloniality of Being
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, 2007
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Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows, 2008
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From Knowledge to Wisdom
Julio Olalla, 2010
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Living with Mastery: What It Takes
Werner Erhard & Michael C. Jensen & Joseph J. DiMaggio, 2010
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Ontological Design Ways of Sustainable Intervention: A Conceptual Framework
Hyewon Kim, 2010
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Time and the Colonial Difference
Walter Mignolo, 2011
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Conversations for Action and Collected Essays
Fernando Flores, 2013
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Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Frédéric Laloux, 2014
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Designing in the absence of sight: Design cognition re-articulated
Greg Nijs, 2014
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Ontological Designing
Anne-Marie Willis, 2015
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Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking By Design
Kees Dorst, 2015
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Coaching to the human soul: ontological coaching and deep change, Vol. I - IV
Alan Sieler, 2015
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Transiciones: a space for research and design for transitions to the pluriverse
Arturo Escobar, 2016
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The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics
Yuk Hui, 2016
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Reality Beyond Humanities-Science Schism: Revealing the Mutuality of Design and Semiotics
Farouk Y. Seif, 2016
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On Decolonizing Design
Madina Tlostanova, 2017
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Precedence, Earth and the Anthropocene: Decolonizing design
Rolando Vazquez, 2017
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Designs for the Pluriverse
Arturo Escobar, 2018
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Designing Design
Kenya Hara, 2018
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Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design
Kristina Hook, 2018
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The Design Philosophy Reader
Anne Marie-Willis (Editor), 2018
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Practiced-based ontological design for multiplying realities
Chris Nold, 2018
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On Decoloniality
Walter Mignolo & Catherine Walsh, 2018
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Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness
Jeremy D Johnson, 2019
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Being and the Screen: How the Digital Changes Perception
Stéphane Vial, 2019
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Principles of Construction. An Ontology of Design
Enrico Terrone, 2019
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Designing Consciousness: Psychedelics as Ontological Design Tools for Decolonizing Consciousness
Joshua Falcon, 2020
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Insurrection Training for Post-human Politics
Chris Nold, 2020
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Plural Bodies, Pluriversal Humans: Questioning the Ontology of 'Body' in Design
Ahmed Ansari, 2020
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Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives
Claudia Mareis (Editor), Nina Paim (Editor), 2021
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Dwelling as the Ontological Condition for Designing
Antony Puthussery, 2021
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The Disobedience of Design
Gui Bonsiepe, 2021
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Attempting to Resist Ontological Occupation When Designing for Scale in Healthcare
Josina Vink & Thaigo Freitas & Felicia Nilsson & Shivani Prakash, 2021
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Global Higher Education in 2050: An Ontological Design Perspective
Arturo Escobar, 2022
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Weaving Together a Decolonial Imaginary Through Design for Effective River Management: Pluriversal Ontological Design in Practice
Manuhuia Barcham, 2022
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The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection
Anne H. Berry (Editor), Kareem Collie (Editor), Penina Acayo Laker (Editor), Lesley-Ann Noel (Editor), Jennifer Rittner (Editor), Kelly Walters (Editor), 2022
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
James Bridle, 2022
Last updated January 7th, 2023 by Andrea Mignolo