books and book chapters
Adams, Barbara and Susan Yelavich, eds. (2014) Design as Future-Making. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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Acarin, Xavier and Barbara Adams (2015) "Centers of Experience: Bodies and Objects in Today's Museums " in Experience Design, Peter Benz (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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public scholarship
Adams, Barbara (2023) "Afterword: Proximity and the Ethics of Engagement," in Collaborative Social Design with Mexican Indigenous Communities: Critical Craft and Transformative Practices, Carmen Malvar. London: Routledge.
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articles
Adams, Barbara and Jilly Traganou (2025) “when life is happening, design has meaning,” Design and Culture 17(3): 259-263.
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Adams, Barbara and John Bruce (forthcoming) "Public Library Workers, Unconditional Hospitality, and Shared Leadership." Antipode.
Adams, Barbara (2021) "Improvisation, Design, and Sociality during the Pandemic: A Conversation with Denise Milstein from The New York City COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive," Design and Culture 13(1).
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Adams, Barbara, Betti Marenko, and Jilly Traganou (2021) "Design and the Pandemic: Dispatches from the Early Months," Design and Culture 13(1).
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Adams, Barbara, Mahmoud Keshavarz, and Jilly Traganou (2019) “Introduction from the New Editorial Team,” Design and Culture 11(2): 153-5.
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Adams, Barbara, Mariana Amatullo, John Bruce, Lara Penin, Eduardo Staszowski (2019) “Public Libraries as Engines of Democracy: A Research and Pedagogical Case Study on Design for Re-Entry,” NORDES 2019: Who Cares? no. 8.
Adams, Barbara (December 2021) "The Coordinates of Speculative Solidarity" and "Art, Fabulation, and Practicing the Worlds We Want." Project Unsung, Innovation Service, UNHCR.
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Adams, Barbara (2013) Old New Territories. International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP). ISBN: 978-0-9855741-3-0.
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Adams, Barbara and David Peppas (2012) “This Must Be the Place,” exhibition catalog, Spazio Morris, Milan and Chashama Gallery, New York.
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Adams, Barbara (2011) "Notes from Occupy Wall Street" in The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and The Whole World Is Watching. Ecole du Magasin
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Adams, Barbara (2010) "Cranbrook Estate," exhibition catalog, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York.
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