Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming — Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby
Speculative design tried to impact contemporary world by imaging future world. This area of design is very interesting to me.
The Design of Everyday Things — Donald A. Norman
Designing With Data — Rochelle King, Elizabeth F Churchill, Caitlin Tan
Love and Communication
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life — Marshall B.Rosenberg
The book taught me how to understand my emotions, share my feelings and take responsibility for my emotions
The Art of Loving — Erich Fromm
“Love is an activity, not a passive emotion.”
“For many people, what matters in love is being loved, rather than how to love.”
Society
Palaces for the People — Eric Klinenberg:
The book describes the interaction of public space and people. It reveals how environments influnce people.
Dancing Bears Tańczące niedźwiedzie — Witold Szablowski
Beautiful words and Thought-provoking stories
How to Feed a Dictator Jak Nakarmić Dyktatora — Witold Szablowski
Gender
The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy — Allan G. Johnson
“The patriarchy is a social system constituted by specific social relations and ideologies. As individuals, our participation in it not only means that our lives are shaped and influenced by it, but also provides us with the opportunity to change or sustain it.”
Fiction
Exhalation — Ted Chiang
強風吹拂 — 三浦紫苑
「長跑不是比速度,而是比心裡放了什麼東西。」
地底三萬呎 — 朱少麟
Magical words
性意思史 — 張亦絢
Harry Potter — J. K. Rowling
Essays
台北女生 — 許菁芳
我和貍奴不出門 — 黃麗群
Productive System
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The book taught me understand the thinking and learning system
Make Time:How to focus on what matters every day — Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky