2021 Readings

Last updated: May 29, 2021

Currently Reading

Poetry

• Mga Kagila-Gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran: Mga Tulang Nahalungkat sa Bukbuking Baul, Jose F. Lacaba

Design/Tech

• Making Design Theory, Johan Redstrom

Fiction

• Homestuck (I actually never finished this and stopped when Eridan Ampora was introduced </3)
• The Collected Stories of Jose Garcia Villa, Jonathan Chua
• A pig was once killed in our garage, Martin Villanueva

Non-fiction

• Organization Development Practice in the Philippines, Edna P. Franco, Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Ma. Regina M. Hechanova

Finished Reading

Design/Tech

• What is a designer, Norman Potter
• The Politics of Design, Ruben Pater
• Design Dedication: Adaptive Mentalities in Design Education
• Design as an Attitude, Alice Rawsthorn
• Design is a Job, Mike Monteiro
• Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design, Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley
• The Shape of Design, Frank Chimero
• Radical Technologies, Adam Greenfield (picked up from class)
• Designs for the Pluriverse, Arturo Escobar
• Speculative Everything, Fiona Raby & Anthony Dunne
• Against Creativity, Oli Mould

Poetry

• The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems 1967–2001, Norman Dubie

Fiction

• Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian Jarboe (given as a gift by Bianca ♡)
• Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang (re-read)

If I end up writing about the things I’ve read I’ll make it a habit to update this and link it to the related post. 🙂 Also, please please send me recommendations!

I used to never track the stuff I read. Trying to change that this year!
I still mostly read articles or whatever digital longform I can get (not enough space for books at the moment, and are hard to get a hold of).
I try to track these types of reads on Are.na:

• I: General dump for publications, articles, essays
• On design: design references, websites, finds; not always literature
• On design reading: books and heavier reads