​

 

Welcome to the Xenolith library. Here you will find an array resources we are using to become better informed. You are invited to add suggestions/ open discussion in the comments below. 

​

​

​

​

Read:

INCLUSIVITY 

• Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux

• Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

• Think Small by Owain Service & Rory Gallagher

• Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas

• The Growth Delusion by David Pilling

• No Pity by Joseph P. Shapiro

• Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• The Future Of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig

• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

• Creating Minds by Howard E. Gardner

• Creative Confidence by David Kelley 

• Slave to Fashion by Safia Minney

• Change By Design by Tim Brown 

• Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby 

​

WATCH:

• The new urgency of climate change (Al Gore, TED Talks)

• New ways to understand life in a pandemic (Aaron Maniam, TED Talks)

• The transformative role of art during the pandemic (Anne Pasternak TED Talks)

​

LISTEN:​

• Drive from the Business of Fashion 

• Rebuilding Lebanon's Fashion Industry from the Business of Fashion 

• Tackling Systemic Racism in the Fashion Industry

• Jonathan Anderson says 'If It Feels Fake, I Don't Want It'

• Imran Amed on Finding Opportunity in a Crisis 

• WARDROBE CRISIS by Clare Press

• Charles Jeffrey on What it's Like to Be a Rising Designer in the Midst of a Pandemic 

• Li Edeljoort Says the Coronavirus Is a Representation of our Conscience 

• Retail Futurist Doug Stephens on How Coronavirus Will Shift Consumer Behaviour 

• 99% Invisible 

• Design Better Podcast

• 1619 (New York Times)

• NASA'S Steve Rader: Redefining the moonshoot with diverse teams 

• Amazon's Joanna Pena-Bickley: Bringing more diversity into leadership

• Airbnb's Benjamin Evans on the power of inclusive design

• Google's Abigail Hart Gray: Communicating the value of design

• Jina Anne, Founder of Clarity Conference, on Crafting a Community for Design Systems 

• The Honest Designers Show 

• How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Your Peers

• Is Social Media Really Necessary?

• How to build a Good Reputation as a Designer

• Designing for the Love of It

• How to Create Better Work

​

​

​

​

​​