Building towards a point of always building: a visual foreword / Keetra Dean Dixon

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Giving form to the future

Timeline

Section one: Structuring the digital. Introduction

Visual design in action / Ladislav Sutnar

Arte programmata / Bruno Munari

Designing programmes / Karl Gerstner

The ultimate display / Ivan E. Sutherland

Structure as art? Art as structure? / Max Bill

Whole Earth catalog / Stewart Brand

Type design for the computer age / Wim Crouwel

Doing wall drawings / Sol LeWitt

Theory at work: 1960s-1970s

Section two: Resisting central processing. Introduction

Creativity and technology / Sharon Poggenpohl

Does it make sense? / April Greiman

Computers and design / Muriel Cooper

Ambition/Fear / Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans

User interface: a personal view / Alan Kay

Is best really better / Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum

Redefining display / P. Scott Makela

Design by numbers / John Maeda

Theory at work: 1980-2000

Section three: Encoding the future. Introduction

Processing ... / Ben Fry and Casey Reas

Design and the elastic mind / Paola Antonelli

Design in the age of biology: shifting from a mechanical-object ethos to an organic-systems ethos / Hugh Dubberly

Conditional design: a manifesto for artists and designers / Luna Maurer, Edo Paulus, Jonathan Puckey, Roel Wouters

Designed animism / Brenda Laurel

Conversations with the network / Khoi Vinh

Museum as manufacturer / Keetra Dean Dixon

Posthuman-centered design / Haakon Faste

Theory at work: 2000-present.