Dear Ranjan ( I hope you don't mind me forwarding the email you sent me to the list.)

Just the right response! Everybody will have their own history and references and the more they are known the better it will be. 
The Bibliography Behind A Theory of Design Thinking was compiled entirely from papers and books that I have read or produced and that are in my library. It is not complete even then as there are several important things that are in boxes in the basement. 

Having worked with Charles Eames at George Nelson's,  and with Klaus Krippendorff as both his student and colleague, I know how important they are to the history of design in India and elsewhere. I know I have some publications of their's that aren't in my bibliography and some probably aren't in yours. I've cited Klaus's book but not all the papers I have of his, including those he developed for his teaching of  product semantics at UArts. Maybe we should get him to post an  exhaustive bibliography of his work. 

Ranulff Glanville, Nigel Cross, Donald Norman, Bernhard Burdek, Terry Love, John Gero, you, and others who have a long history of contributing to the field should do the same. Perhaps as Terry noted Endnote files could be used to standardize and share all bibliographies  through some repository accessible to students and scholars everywhere. Maybe Terry's Love Web Services would provides such a home. or perhaps Cumulus through their secretariat in Helsinki (Hello Eija!)? Funding might follow the model that supports academia.edu whatever that model is? Or maybe there is some way to index bibliographies at different locations? 

We're all in this together! Aren't we Francois?

Chuck


On Feb 6, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Ranjan MP wrote:

> Dear Snehal
> 
> This is with reference to our conversation yesterday about Prof Charles Brunette's bibliography.
> 
> I attach here the Bibliography provided by Prof Charles Brunette on his Academia.edu web page. This is a fairly comprehensive list of all his papers as well as those that he claims have influenced him personally as well as widely helped in the shaping of Design Theory as well as Design Thinking and Design Methods from early beginnings at the turn of the last century.
> 
> I have a few other authors in my own list who have influenced us at NID and in India since we have had access to these authors during our student days at NID as well as durung the period of our own explorations into design education since the early 70's. The journals from the HfG Ulm were a potent force for us and all these volumes were available in the NID library and now these are available online from my blog Design for India for download. The Ulm theorists include Tomas Maldonado, Gui Bonsieppe and a whole host of other teachers there.
> 
> I would include here Bucky Fuller and Frei Otto who are not listed in Chuck's list. Further, Stafford Beer, Gregory Bateson and Piere Teilhard de Chardin who influenced us to explore systems thinking are not on his list too. There are others such as M K Gandhi and J Krishnamurthy who shaped our idelogical perspectives in design thought and action and some of these I have expanded on in my paper of 2009 for the Istanbul conference titled "Hand-Head-Heart: Ethics of Design" which also includes the development of semiotics as an influence in design thinking through the work of Klaus Krippendorf and Liz Sanders etc. Take a look at both and we can discuss these in the light of some that we both may have missed  from an architectural perspective.
> 
> The most updated list should include The Design Way (2nd edition) by Harold Neslson and Eric Stolterman from the MIT Press, The Semantic Turn by Klaus Krippendorf and 101 Design Methods by Vijay Kumar. In the mid 70's and early 80's we had access to several books from the Open University, UK that were authored by Nigel Cross and Robin Roy. NID Library has an very good collection of books from the Design Council, UK as well.
> 
> KD may kindly give Kiritbhai a copy of both these papers.
> 
> with warm regards
> 
> M P Ranjan
> from my at CEPT University
> 6 February 2013 at 1.05 pm IST
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