Scratching the Surface

Scratching the Surface is a podcast about design, theory, and creative practice. Hosted by Jarrett Fuller, each episode features wide-ranging conversations with designers, architects, writers, academics, artists, and theorists about how design shapes culture. 

 

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The Ministry for the Future Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity The Burnout Society
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Guest Recommendations

Design as Democratic Inquiry: Putting Experimental Civics Into Practice Sandfuture Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
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Books by StS Guests

Sandfuture
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Celine Dion's Let's Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Ways of Seeing
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Design: The Invention of Desire
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
Teaching as a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-With Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can B
Against Creativity