Das bunte Bastelbuch der Gefühle

Das bunte Bastelbuch der Gefühle: Mit bunten Basteleien Gefühle erkennen, benennen und verarbeiten lernen

by Michele Gauler, 2025, Unfolding Stories

This book is written in German, but I want to show it to you nevertheless. Because it comes from my heart. – The heart of a mother, artist, paper-lover and life long learner.

It is packed with fun craft projects that playfully allow kids to learn about feelings:

• To recognise and name feelings.
• To feel them in their bodies.
• To move through feelings.
• To learn about the glue that makes us stick together and our world a better place: empathy.

In a way, these craft projects follow the same principle that I use in my conceptual art, visual recordings and leadership workshops: Thinking and learning goes deeper when we experience it with our hands, our bodies and through images.

I love this way of engaging with our feelings and thoughts!

Even if you cannot read German, I am sure you can work out the craft projects from the images ;)

You can get Das bunte Bastelbuch der Gefühle here.

Design and the Elastic Mind

Design and the Elastic Mind

by The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2008

This book accompanied the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” by Paola Antonelli and Patricia Juncosa Vecchierini. To quote from the book’s foreword “The Museum of Modern Art once again ventures into the field of experimental design, where innovation, functionality, aesthetics, and deep knowledge of the human condition combine to create outstanding artefacts.” Glenn D. Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art explains “[…] one of design’s most fundamental roles: the translation of scientific revolutions into approachable objects that change people’s lives and, as a consequence, the world.” — I am very happy to have been included in the exhibition and book with my work Digital Remains.

Find the book here.

Thinking: Objects

Thinking: Objects
Contemporary Approaches to Product Design

by Tim Parsons, 2009, AVA Publishing SA

In this book, Tim gives a comprehensive overview of the role that objects play as tools for thinking, imagining, experimenting, speculating and communicating. My work Digital Remains is featured as an example for the use of an object for debate.

Find Thinking: Objects here.