We a good story
Quick delivery in the UK

Books in the Infrastructures series

Filter
Filter
Sort bySort Series order
  • - Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders
     
    £7.99

  • Save 19%
    - The Cultural Work of Standing In
    by Dylan Mulvin
    £34.99

    "A history of proxies and how they are made, shaped, and maintained"--

  • Save 19%
    - Designing for Emergence
    by Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian
    £36.49

    Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world—rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science, which gives us a new lens through which to view the world as entangled and emerging, and architecture, which is about designing contexts. In such a practice, design, unbound from its material thingness, is set free to design contexts as complex systems.In a world where causality is systemic, entangled, in flux, and often elusive, we cannot design for absolute outcomes. Instead, we need to design for emergence. Design Unbound not only makes this case through theory but also presents a set of tools to do so. With case studies that range from a new kind of university to organizational, and even societal, transformation, Design Unbound draws from a vast array of domains: architecture, science and technology, philosophy, cinema, music, literature and poetry, even the military. It is presented in five books, bound as two volumes. Different books within the larger system of books will resonate with different reading audiences, from architects to people reconceiving higher education to the public policy or defense and intelligence communities. The authors provide different entry points allowing readers to navigate their own pathways through the system of books.

  • Save 22%
    - Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff
     
    £19.49

    Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.

  • Save 27%
    - Working with Leigh Star
     
    £50.99

    The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.

  • - Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures
    by Casper Bruun (Associate Professor Jensen
    £7.99

  • Save 20%
    - Ecologies of Change
    by Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian
    £38.49

    Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world—rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science, which gives us a new lens through which to view the world as entangled and emerging, and architecture, which is about designing contexts. In such a practice, design, unbound from its material thingness, is set free to design contexts as complex systems.In a world where causality is systemic, entangled, in flux, and often elusive, we cannot design for absolute outcomes. Instead, we need to design for emergence. Design Unbound not only makes this case through theory but also presents a set of tools to do so. With case studies that range from a new kind of university to organizational, and even societal, transformation, Design Unbound draws from a vast array of domains: architecture, science and technology, philosophy, cinema, music, literature and poetry, even the military. It is presented in five books, bound as two volumes. Different books within the larger system of books will resonate with different reading audiences, from architects to people reconceiving higher education to the public policy or defense and intelligence communities. The authors provide different entry points allowing readers to navigate their own pathways through the system of books.

  • - Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders
     
    £7.99

    A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.

  • - A Shadow History of the Internet
    by Finn Brunton
    £7.99 - 30.49

    What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.

  • - Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design
     
    £7.99

  • Save 23%
    - Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal
    by Vanderbilt University) Carse & Ashley (Assistant Professor
    £24.49 - 39.49

    A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal.

  • Save 22%
    - The Shaping of Modern Knowledge
    by New York University) Siskin & Clifford (Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature
    £19.49 - 25.49

    The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe."

Join thousands of book lovers

Sign up to our newsletter and receive discounts and inspiration for your next reading experience.