slowLab recommends the following events, books, articles and related web sites. If you would like to add your resource to this list, please email us.

events

upcoming

Changing The Change. An international conference on the role and potential of design research in the transition towards sustainability. Torino (Italy) 10-12 July 2008 more info >

ongoing

Long Now Foundation 'Seminars about Long-term Thinking': Making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare. San Francisco, CA (USA) *ongoing* more info>

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts 'Legal and Business Boot Camp.' An intensive new program about the legal and business issues that affect individual artists and individuals within arts organizations and cultural institutions. VLA is offering the program in venues around the United States. slowLab is a sponsor of these events. more info>

past

Bioneers: Visonary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth and People, San Rafael, California (USA) Annual conference more info>

Computers, Freedom and Privacy 'Panopticon 2005,' focusing on privacy and freedom in emerging surveillance societies. Seattle, WA (USA) 12-15 April 2005 more info>

Design & Emotion 2006: How designed artifacts elicit emotions and how those emotions influence our wellbeing. Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg (Sweden) 27-29 September 2006 more info >

Doors 8: on 'Infra': Designers and entrepreneurs from different parts of the world will discuss platforms for social innovation, and how to design them. New Delhi (India) 21-26 March 2005 more info>

Doors of Perception 9: Juice. The impact of global food systems of the environment, health and social quality. New Delhi (India) 28 Februayr to 04 March 2007 more info>

Doors of Perception East, Bangalore (India) 11-12 December 2003 view outcomes>

International Engineering and Product Design Conference, Delft (Netherlands) 2-3 September 2004 more info>

Mobile Digital Commons Network Symposium: The Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Technologies. Montreal (Canada) 05-08 May 2005 more info>

Narrative Matters ‘The storied nature of human experience: Fact and Fiction’: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Narrative Research, Perspectives, Approaches, and Issues Across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia (Canada) 25-27 May 2006 more info>

Nordic Design Research Conference: 'In the Making.' Copenhagen (Denmark), 29-31 May 2005 more info>

'Slow Walk' across London Bridge by artist Ohad Fishof. London (England), 21 Jun 2005, 8:00 am til dusk more info>

Subtle Technologies 'Responsive Architecture': Investigating how environmentsand systems can interact and respond to their occupants. University of Toronto (Canada) 1-4 June 2006 *Call for Submissions now in progress*>

Utrecht Manifest. 2nd Biennale for Social Design. Utrecht (Netherlands) November 2007 more info>

Visions of Possible Worlds, Triennale di Milano (Italy) 18-19 November 2003 more info>

books

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus (Perennial, New York 2002) ISBN 00-6053-322-6 more info> or order>

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart (Northpoint Press, NY 2002) ISBN 0-86547-587-3 buy it locally> or order online>

Dwellings: The Vernacular House World Wide by Paul Oliver (Phaidon 2003) ISBN 07148 4202 8 order>

A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist, or How Every Culture Keeps Time Just a Little Bit Differently by Robert V. Levine (Basic Books 1998) ISBN 0-465-02642-7

In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honoré (Harper San Francisco 2004) ISBN 006054578X more info>

Kathalys: vision on sustainable product innovation by A3/Adrie Beyen, Editorial team: Prof. Han Brezet, Prof. Philip Vergragt and Tom van der Horst (Bis Publishers, Amsterdam) ISBN 90-6369-013-4 Kathalys web> order>

KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects from Knitting's New Wave by Sabrina Gschwandtner (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York 2007) ISBN 13-978-1-58479-631-2 knitknit.net>

Lightness: the Inevitable Renaissance of Minimum Energy Structures by Adreaan Beukers and Ed van Hinte (010 Publishers, Rotterdam 1998/2001) ISBN 90-6450-334-6 order>

Nature-Culture-Fusion by Piet Vollaard, Hagen Rosenheinrich, Vincent van Rossem and Guido van Overbeek (NAi, Rotterdam 2003) ISBN 90-5662-278-1 order from Boeki Woeki Amsterdam>

Smart Architecture by Ed van Hinte, Marc Neelen, Jacques Vink and Piet Vollaard (010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2003) ISBN 90 6450 490 3 order>

The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram (Vintage 1997) ISBN 0-6797-7639-7 order>

Sustainable Everyday: Scenarios for Urban Life and Album: A Catalogue of Promising Solutions by Ezio Manzini and Francois Jegou (Edizione Ambiente, Milano 2003) ISBN 88-86412-98-3 more info> or order>

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander (Oxford University Press 1987) ISBN 0195024028 order>

The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer by Stewart Brand (Basic Books 2000) ISBN 0465007805

Trespassers: Inspirations for Eco-efficient Design by Conny Bakker and Ed van Hinte, Design by Erik Wong
(010 Publishers, Rotterdam 1999) ISBN 90 6450 375 3 more info>

Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World by Peggy F. Bartlett (MIT Press 2005) ISBN 0-262-52443-0 more info>

articles

'slow design' - a paradigm shift in design philosophy? by Alastair Fuad-Luke download>

Slow Technology and other design experiments by Lars Hallnes and Johan Redstrom of PLAY Interactive Institute download papers>

'Slower Consumption: Reflections on Product Lifespans and the 'Throwaway Society' by Tim Cooper download>

ThinkCycle: Sharing Distributed Design Knowledge for Open Collaborative Design by Nitin Sawhney, Saul Griffith, Yael Maguire and Timothy Prestero of MIT Media Lab view abstract and download>

sites

Bientot Demain slow design blog link>

Common Ground link>

Doors of Perception link>

Glowlab (kindred spirits) link>

GreenBlue (by the Cradle to Cradle folks) link>

In Praise of Slowness (Carl Honoré's book) link>

New York Foundation for the Arts (our fiscal sponsor) link>

o2 Int'l Network for Sustainable Development link>

Sloth Club link>

SLow (Alastair Fuad-Luke's slow design site) link>

slowBlog (hosted by slowLab) link>

Slow Food link>

Sustainable Everyday link>

tempo Sustainable Design Network link>

ThinkCycle Open Collaborative Design more info>

Treehugger (green lifestyle blog) link>

World Institute of Slowness link>