Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World [0] is a foundational text in the area of Appropriate Technology (cited here by others). Essential reading alongside

Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World [0] is a foundational text in the area of Appropriate Technology (cited here by others). Essential reading alongside the Illich (also linked by others), Pye's Nature and Art of Workmanship [1], and Winner's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" [2] for those interested in.... Let's call it an ecology OF technology? And also the Papanek was probably the book that felt most like a forbidden text in undergraduate architecture school... [0] https://archive.org/details/designforrealwor0000papa/page/n6/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/designforrealwor0000papa/page/n6... [1] https://archive.org/details/natureartofwor00pyed https://archive.org/details/natureartofwor00pyed [2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652