In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World

1. The conversation took place in September 2001 at the New York opening of Workspheres. The Workspheres website is available at http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/workspheres/.
2. Bill Mayon-White, Managing Change (London: Chapman, 1993).
3. Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society (London: Blackwell, 1996).
4. For a useful reading list on emergent phenomena (including works by Murray Gell-Mann), see http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/eprg/?page=EmergenceReadingList.
5. Los Angeles International generates more than 150,000 vehicle trips a day in and out of the central terminal area alone. That number excludes traffic in long-term parking, warehouses, nearby hotels, and their suppliers.
6. Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man (New York: Norton, 1992). Sennett argues that the public domain has been replaced by private introspection and narcissism, to the detriment of both individual and society.
7. Henry Plummer, The Poetics of Light, Architecture+ Urbanism (A+ U) (December 1987 suppl.), 7.
8. An excellent bibliography and useful links for Bergson s ideas are available in the entry on Bergson in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson. For the best explanation of Cassirer s theory that man has created his own universe of symbolic meaning that structures and shapes his perception of reality, see Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944).
9. David Winnicott, review of The Nonhuman Environment in Normal Development and in Schizophrenia, International Journal of Psychoanalysis 44 (1983),...