👍Recommended Resources

Fall 2020 • Carla Gannis • Mondays and Wednesdays • 4:00 – 5:50pm • 370J Rm 310

Student Insurance *All students are asked to get equipment insurance. This will not only cover the kits we send them, but also their personal belongings. They can get $3000 of coverage for $90 at https://www.collegestudentinsurance.com. An explainer is here: https://github.com/IDMNYU/ER_Insurance.

NYU Streaming Services https://stream.nyu.edu/ - NYU provides a variety of resources here for media upload, webcam capturing, interactive video, kaltura capture (allows you to capture your webcam and screen a the same time)

NYU Maker Space http://makerspace.engineering.nyu.edu/training/ - Information on training (training reservations begin Sept 14) *please check out the wide variety of machines, tools, softward and hardware that the MakerSpace provides (including 3D printers, advanced 3D printers, sewing machines for computational sewing, engravers and laser cutters, CT Scanning, and much more!) https://stream.nyu.edu/channel/channelid/164730651 - Find loads of videos here on modeling, 3D printing, soldering, making origami, baking banana bread, etc...

Recommended Audio Podcasts

Revision Path Maurice Cherry interviews designers, developers, and other creators of color weekly.
Reply All “‘A podcast about the internet’ that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.” – The Guardian
FunnyAsTech A tech ethicist & comedian tackle the thorniest issues in tech!
Codeswitch "Remember when folks used to talk about being "post-racial"? Well, we're definitely not that. We're a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting."
Should this Exist "It’s the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? On Should This Exist? we invite creators of radical new technologies to set aside their business plan, and think through the human side: What is the technology’s fullest potential? And what could possibly go wrong? Show host Caterina Fake (founder of Flickr, Partner at Yes VC) drops listeners into the minds of today’s edgiest entrepreneurs and guides them through the journey of foreseeing what technology might do to us, and for us. Should This Exist? is a WaitWhat original series in partnership with Quartz."
IBM ThinkLeaders thinkLeaders tells the stories behind AI and business transformation through engaging interviews with top entrepreneurs, technologists, and researchers at the forefront of disruption.
State of the Art Each week host (and NYU ITP professor) Gabriel Barcia-Colombo speaks with a new artist, curator, technologist, AI, collector, innovator, about the ever-changing relationship between art and tech.

Recommended Books & Readers

Idea Generation

Cracking Creativity by Michael Michalko
IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea by Sam Harrison
IDEO method cards
Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon
The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko
Thinkpak cards

Interdisciplinarity/Collaboration between Disciplines

The Fuzzy and the Techie by Scott Hartley

Decolonizing Design/Critical & Speculative Design

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
Decolonizing Reader (resources)_Collaborative (open) edition
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbymt6a3zz044xF_LCqGfTmXJip3cetj5sHlxZEjtJ4/edit
Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tpAhZ8xzXiEngDE5egzpuFh3O82KZbZglpgvkNp7smo/edit
Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1KiW2ULDFeIm_OuvwhM2lygxwhoNddrEFk5tYI9zbldw/mobilebasic#h.6acqnzg0q1z3
Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

Artists’ & Designers’ Processes

Creativity: The Perfect Crime by Philippe Petit
MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer by Hillman Curtis
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp and Mark Reiter
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz

Business

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

Design

Designing for Interaction by Dan Saffer
Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis by Jon Kolko
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo
Universal Methods of Design by Bella Martin and Bruce Hanington

Ethnography

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill

Note Taking

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking

Sketching

Blah Blah Blah by Dan Roam
Unfolding The Napkin by Dan Roam

Mapping

Web Redesign 2.0 | Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler
How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody 1.0 Edition by Abby Covert
Any Edward Tufte book

Prototyping