So after reading eveyrone’s Desert Island Top 10 Lists for years I was finally forced to make one myself. I am moving to India for a year and teaching classes at the Media Lab at Srischti School of Art Design & Technology. 2 Bags + 1 year means I am only bringing 10 books.

Okay. So no fiction needed, I will be able to get lots of great english language fiction in South India. Also, the books should be somewhat relevant to what I am teaching.

In no particular order:

Millenium by Hakim Bey
War and Peace in the Global Village by Marshall Mcluhan / Quention Fiore
Temporary Urban Spaces ed. by Florian Haydn and Robert Temel
Spying with Maps by Mark Monmonier
The Moment of Complexity by Mark C. Taylor
Before and After the I-Bomb by Tom Sherman
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
Everyware: The Dawning age of Ubiquitous Computing by Adam Greenfield
Probes by Mcluhan and David Carson
multiMedia Reader by Randall Packer & Ken Jordan

To be fair, I intend to pick up these three books in the airports if I see them on the way there:

Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Deep Economy by Bill Mckibben