Recommended Reading

We recommend some of the following documents and websites, but the particular ones that you choose will depend on the specific details of your project.

Gray, D. E., 2004. Doing Research in the Real World. London. SAGE Publications.
Kitchin, R., 2014. The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences. SAGE.
Offenhuber, Dietmar, and Carlo Ratti, Waste Is Information: Infrastructure Legibility and Governance (MIT Press, 2017
Ratti, Carlo, and Matthew Claudel 2016, The City of Tomorrow Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life (Yale University Press, 2016) Ch. 1 pp. 3-13
Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, “The Rise of Big Data,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2013, pp. 28-40.
Oliver Bates and Adrian Friday. “Beyond Data in the Smart City: Repurposing Existing Campus IoT.” IEEE Pervasive Computing (Volume: 16 , Issue: 2 , April-June 2017)
Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson, “Introduction,” in “Raw Data” is an Oxymoron, (Lisa Gitelman, ed.), pp. 1-14, The MIT Press, 2012.
Shannon Mattern, Methodolatry and the Art of Measure. A New Wave of Urban Data Science. Places Journal. Nov 2013

Participatory and Co-Design

Merholz, M (2013)The Double Diamond Model of Product Definition and Design
Open Design Now
Muller, M J (2003) Participatory design: the third space in HCI, chapter in Human-computer interaction: Development process, 4235.
Spinzzi, C (2005) The methodology of participatory design, Technical Communication, 52(2), 163-174.
Druin, A (2002) The role of children in the design of new technology, Behaviour and information technology, 21(1), 1-25.
Grocki, M (2014) How to Create a Customer Journey Map
Steen, M. (2011). Tensions in human-centred design. CoDesign, 7(1), 45–60. http://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2011.563314
BUUR, J., & MATTHEWS, B. (2008). PARTICIPATORY INNOVATION. International Journal of Innovation Management, 12(03), 255–273. http://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919608001996
15 ways to test you Minimal Viable PRoduct https://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/11/12/15-ways-test-minimum-viable-product/, Christopher Bank 2014, The Next Web.

Designing for Change

Tactical Tech: Info-activism
Theory of Change
Design Justice: Zines 1-3

Thinking about Socio-technical Change

Elizabeth Shove (2014) Putting practice into policy: reconfiguring questions of consumption and climate change, Contemporary Social Science, 9:4, 415-429, DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2012.692484
Head, B. W., & Alford, J. (2015). Wicked Problems: Implications for Public Policy and Management. Administration and Society, 47(6), 711–739. http://doi.org/10.1177/0095399713481601

Ethics, Privacy and Data Management

Gray, D E (2014) Research Ethics, Chapter 4, Doing research in the real world. Los Angeles, SAGE.
Information Commissioner’s Office (2012) Anonymisation Code of Practice
University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Sciences Research Ethics
UK Research Integrity Office Code of Practice for Research.
University of Edinburgh Research Under the General Data Protection Regulation
University of Edinburgh Research Data Management Policy

Data Visualisation

Few, S (2009) Now You See It, Analytics Press
Tufte, E R (1983) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press
Makulec, A (ND) Anatomy of a Graphic, chapter 14 of Data + Design
Underwood, J (2013) Data Visualization Best Practices (on Slideshare)
School of Data From Data to Diagrams
GOOD Infographics
Visualisations that make no sense: WTF Visualizations
Tactical Tech Guide to Visualisation Tools
Resources for Data Driven Journalism

Data Vis Tools and Tutorials

FOR MORE COMPLETE LIST SEE TOOLS PAGE or LEARN

Google Fusion Tables
RAW
DataWrapper
Benjamin Bach’s list of datavis tools
Miriam Posner’s list of datavis tools

Circular Economy Resources

The Helen MacArthur Foundation - a website with many resources, including reports and activities
Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Report
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
The Helen MacArthur Foundation, The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics & Catalysing action - a website with many resources, including reports and activities
Edinburgh Council Transport and Environment Committee,Single-use plastics
Environmental Investigation Agency & Greenpeace, Checking out on plastics – A survey of UK supermarkets’ plastic Habits
Greenpeace, A crisis of convenience - The corporations behind the plastic pollution pandemic
WRAP, A Roadmap to 2025 - The UK Plastics Pact
University of Edinburgh Waste Strategy 2018/9-2021/22