Anne-Marie Willis is Visiting Professor of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Adelaide, Australia and editor of Design Philosophy Papers at The Studio at the Edge of the World.

In the case of The Design Philosophy Reader, the editor’s proficiency as an educator and design scholar becomes evident in how each excerpt is curated for a higher education context. Willis skillfully navigates the limitations of the format and manages to offer a coherent, thought-provoking whole that dynamises the relationships between the selected texts.

• PrefaceIntroduction, Anne Marie Willis PART 1: THE ESSENCE OF DESIGN Introduction1. The Fault of Epimetheus, Bernard Stiegler 2. In the Beginning, Tony Fry3. A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design, Bruno Latour4. The Depth of Design, Albert Borgmann 5. Design as an Ontological Question, Tony Fry Guide to Further Reading PART 2: THE PRACTICE OF DESIGNIntroduction6. Science, Art and Practical Wisdom, Aristotle 7. The Complication of Praxis, William McNeill 8. The Existential Self as Locus of Sustainability in Design, Philippe d’Anjou 9. Science of the Concrete, Claude Levi-Strauss10. The Textility of MakingTim IngoldGuide to Further ReadingPART 3: THE ETHOS OF DESIGN Introduction 11. Artefacts: the Making Sentient of the External World, Elaine Scarry 12. Ethics by Design or the Ethos of Things, Cameron Tonkinwise13. Grievability, Judith Butler14. The One for the Other Adrian Peperrzak15. Ethics in the Making, Bodil Jönsson et alGuide to Further ReadingPART 4: DESIGN AND THE OTHER Introduction16. On Coloniality of Knowledge, Madina V. Tlostanova 17. The Enframing Gaze, Timothy Mitchell 18. The Violence of Humanitarian Design, Mahmoud Keshavarz19. The Force of Form, the Effect of Genre, Francois Jullien 20. Why Not an Alphabet? Lothar Ledderose Guide to Further ReadingGuide to Further ReadingPART 5: BEING DESIGNED AND THINGSIntroduction 21. The Thing, Martin Heidegger 22. Materialism is Not the Solution: On Matter, Form, and Mimesis Graham Harman23. Is Design Finished? Dematerialisation and Changing Things, Cameron Tonkinwise24. Beyond Affordance Michael May 25. Understanding, Ontology, Thrownness and Readiness-to-hand, Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores26. Smart meters don’t make us any smarter Elizabeth Shove and Sarah Royston27. Matter and Mattering or Why are Things "Us"? Clive DilnotGuide to Further ReadingPART 6: THE DESIGNING OF TECHNOLOGYIntroduction 28. Technology: Instrumental Metaphor and Cybernetic System, Adrian Snodgrass 29. The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger30. Technical Mentality, Simondon31. The Finite Framework of Language, Michael Heim32. ‘This System Does Not Produce Pleasure Anymore’ Bernard StieglerGuide to Further ReadingPART 7: THE DESIGNING OF VISUALITY Introduction 33. Form and Imitation Plato 34. The Plato Effect in Architecture Chistopher N. Henri35. Age of the World Picture, Martin Heidegger 36. An Art Which Imitates Art Pierre Bourdieu37. Sign Function and Class Logic Jean Baudrillard 38. Henri Lefebvre, The Production of SpaceGuide to Further ReadingPART 8: DESIGNING AFTER THE END Introduction39. What is the Anthropolitical? Claire Colbrook40. The Intrusion of GAIA Isobel Stengers41. Cosmoecological Sheep Vinciane Despret and Michel Meuret 42. Outing Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning with Turing Tests Benjamin H. Bratton 43. The Posthuman Rosi Braidotti44. The Sustainment Tony Fry 45. Spinoza and Us Gilles Deleuze Guide to Further ReadingBibliographyIndex