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This is a gentle reminder that the website for the bibliography survey closes on June 15. To date 52 people have indicated their book recommendations and suggested additional books. The website is at: http://www.id.iit.edu/phd/design/welcome.php Thanks for your attention and participation. Sharon Greetings. Ken Friedman invited me to organize a team of of PhD students to prepare a bibliography of important books for the various sections of the La Clusaz conference proceedings. What seemed like a fairly straightforward task, became more difficult for two reasons: 1) there are many great books out there, and 2) design does not have a well developed literature. In fact other fields have library science specialists who become bibliographers for a discipline or sub-discipline. We have no such expert - in essence, we are trying to perform this function. Doing it alone would be a mistake. So this note is to invite your participation and input. We have developed a website listing books in the areas of: - Philosophy of Design - Methods of Design Research - Theory and Practice in Relation in Design Our shorthand reference is: Philosophy, Methods, Theory-Practice. On this site, we are asking you questions about these books. Each section has about 60 books so it will take some time to go through the list. You are invited to add books that we've overlooked after you've looked through the existing list. You are also invited to volunteer to write annotations (125 words maximum) for a book (or books) that you select. (Of course your annotation will be credited to you.) In this way, selection of books important to design becomes a community activity and we share reference knowledge. These bibliographies will be published and available on the web in some lasting way. The various lists will be limited to 50 books. The focus of the lists is fairly general -- we cannot get into specialized sub-disciplines for obvious reasons. Perhaps others will develop another level of detail and share it based on their own research interests. For example, a listing of books on semiology or semiotics is not what we after, we are after books that speak broadly to design if they are not about design themselves, i.e., they come from another discipline. So for the example just mentioned, the question becomes is there a book on "sign" theory that is general and useful to design. We are not building a "canon" as was discussed on the listserv - but we are trying to identify a group of critical and useful books. It will take approximately 20 minutes to complete a list. You can select one of the three lists and return later to do other lists if you choose. The website is at: http://www.id.iit.edu/phd/design/welcome.php We invite your participation. Share this website address with a colleague if you wish. Our apology if you received this invitation from another source, we want to be inclusive. The Bibliography Survey will be available until June 15, 2001. Bibliography Team: Philosophy - Sakol Teeravarunyou <[log in to unmask]> and Carlos Teixiera <[log in to unmask]> Methods - Chujit Jeamsinkul <[log in to unmask]> Napawan Sawadichai <[log in to unmask]> Theory-Practice - Praima Chayutsahakij <[log in to unmask]> Sharon Sharon Poggenpohl Institute of Design, IIT 350 North LaSalle Street Chicago, IL 60610 USA 312 595 4921 tele 312 595 4901 fax [log in to unmask] email Sharon Poggenpohl Institute of Design, IIT 350 North LaSalle Street Chicago, IL 60610 USA 312 595 4921 tele 312 595 4901 fax [log in to unmask] email