From adventures in the anthropocene to cutting-edge architecture inspired by nature, our latest reading list draws from the art projects, research and theory behind our exhibition, Future Knowledge (22 September – 28 October 2018). A selection of these titles will be available to purchase in the Modern Art Oxford Shop and on display for reference in our Piper Gallery.
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As Spaces Fold, Companions Meet (2017)
Eline McGeorge
PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (2015)
Paul Mason
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made (2014)
Gaia Vince
Tania Kovats (2010)
Jeremy Millar and Philip Hoare
Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day (2017)
Roman Krznaric
Nature [Documents of Contemporary Art] (2012)
Jeffrey Kastner
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2015)
Naomi Klein
Torti Gallas + Partners, Architects of Community (2017)
By John Francis Torti, Thomas M. Gallas and Cheryl A. O’Neill
The Oldest Living Things in the World (2014)
Rachel Sussman, featuring essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer
Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art (2018)
Christian Viveros-Fauné
Building to Educate, School Architecture & Design (2018)
Sibylle Kramer
Raising a Forest (2018)
Thibaud Herem
The Book of Trees (2018)
Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski
Do Disrupt: Change the Status Quo. Or Become It (2013)
Mark Shayler
Civilization: The Way We Live Now (2018)
Holly Roussell and William Ewing
Biomimicry in Architecture (2011)
Michael Pawlyn
Biomorphic Structures: Architecture Inspired by Nature (2017)
Asterios Agkathidis
Last Diamonds (2017)
Francesco Bosso
The Future: A Very Short Introduction (2017)
Jennifer Gidley
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (2016)
Timothy Morton
Whole Earth Discipline (2009)
Book by Stewart Brand
The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future (2015)
Theodore Zeldin
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2015)
Yuval Noah Harari
How to Change the World (The School of Life) (2012)
John-Paul Flintoff and The School of Life
The Knowledge Illusion: The myth of individual thought and the power of collective wisdom (2017)
Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead? (2016)
Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton, Malcolm Gladwell