In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
"Design with a conscience: that's the take-home message of this important, provocative book. John Thackara, long a major force in design, now takes on an even more important challenge: making the world safe for future inhabitants. We need, he says, to design from the edge, to learn from the world, and to stop designing for, but instead design with. If everyone heeded his prescriptions, the world would indeed be a better place. Required readingrequired behavior." Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, author of Emotional Design"An excellent new book... so push aside that colorful pile of photo-packed publications and pick upIn the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, in whose pages 'design' is understood to be more about process than product, more about systems and services than about surfaces and packages, more about work to do than things to buy." ArtsJournal.com"I eagerly devoured every last page of John Thackara's lofty, captivating book." Bruce Sterling, author ofThe Hacker CrackdownandTomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years"If you've ever found yourself saying, 'bad TiVO,' design critic John Thackara is talking to you."Fast Company"Thackara leaps nimbly from statistics to observations to anecdotes, from past to present to future, from energy to the environment, from the Burning Man Festival in Arizona to the Bombay Lunch Delivery program."Architectural Record"I eagerly devoured every last page of John Thackara's lofty, captivating book."Bruce Sterling, author ofThe Hacker CrackdownandTomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years"If you've ever found yourself saying, 'bad TiVO,' design critic John Thackara is talking to you." Fast Company"'To do things differently, we need to perceive things differently,' John Thackara writes. I agree! *In the Bubble* is the first strong, thoroughly documented statement on the importance of the local and the embedded in our fluid, hyper-connected world. A fundamental contribution to a new design culture."--Ezio Manzini, Milan Polytechnic, author of *The Material of Invention* and *Sustainable Everyday*