I'm Jeff Goldenson, an experienced program manager, designer & communicator based in Cambridge, MA. I build collaborations that make "changemaking" easier for everyone.

Shade is Social Justice

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members of Olin community brainstorming in the library.

reimagining libraries

towards an atmosphere of ideas, experience & possibility
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how buildings colleges learn

the intentional design of community experience to drive culture change
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The Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, Stewart Brand
What can a Body Do?, Sara Hendren
Sesame Street and the Reform of Children's Television*, Robert Morrow, *I recommend starting here or here
Explode Every Day, Denise Markonish, from the exhibit
Get Together, Richardson; Huynh; Sotto
Notebooks, 1959-1971, Lawrence Halprin
Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams, Mitchel Resnick
Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Theodor Nelson
Expanded Cinema*, Gene Youngblood
Wabi-Sabi, Leonard Koren
Extrapolation Factory Operators Manual, Montgomery; Woebkin
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Clark; Davies; Auping
The Further Adventures in Cardboard Carpentry, Cope; Morrison
The Puffins Are Back!, Gail Gibbons
A Kid's Guide to Building Forts, Birdseye; Klein
Archigram, Alain Guiheux, Centre Georges Pompidou
How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand
The Carpenter's Manifesto, Ehrlich; Mannheimer
A *New* Program for Graphic Design, David Reinfurt

raumlaborberlin: acting in public, Maier; Raumlaborberlin
Case: Toyo Ito | Sendai Mediatheque, Witte; Kobayashi
The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976, John Harwood
A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
Black Mountain: an interdisciplinary experiment, 1933-1957, Blume; Felix; Knapstein; Nichols
Be Here Now, Ram Dass
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium, K C Cole
Centre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the making of a modern monument, Francesco Dal Co
The Making of Beaubourg: a building biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris., Nathan Silver
The Dynamic Library, Roth; Schültz
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Lawrence Weschler
Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich
The RSVP Cycles: creative processes in the human environment, Lawrence Halprin
The The Experience of Nature: a psychological perspective, Kaplan; Kaplan, dig into this paper and "soft fascination"
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World, Lewis Hyde
Lessons for Students in Architecture, Herman Hertzberger
Ant Farm: 1968-1976, Lewallen and Seid
Living Architecture 7: Ant Farm, Felicity Scott