Designerly Ways of Knowing
Abdulla, Danah A poetical list of essential knowledge for designers that both politicizes and inspiresIn 2018, the architect, urban designer, activist and critic Michael Sorkin published the now much-loved poetical essay-list "Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know." Struck by the compelling form of this text, and also inspired by Antonio Gramsci's advice that "'knowing thyself' requires compiling an inventory, " the design critic, educator an...