• Boston Globe Story: On My Early Work at the Engagement Game Lab

• Boston Art Review Magazine: Profile of See You in the Future

• Winner of: Fourth Annual Sasaki Foundation Design Grants Competition

• Grant Announcement: Leveraging Art and Storytelling to Reinterpret a Location of Crisis

• NEFA Award: Emersonians Awarded Grants to Support Just Public Art - Emerson Today

• Article on: Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston, the « match.com » for the government

• Fellowship With: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School

Fiction:

1. The Sirens of Titan and Complete Works by Kurt Vonnegut

2. The Brothers Karamazov / Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky

3. To the Lighthouse / Orlando by Virginia Woolf

4. Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

5. Labyrinths by Borges

6. Sula by Toni Morrison

7. Ask the Dust by John Fante

8. Lilith’s Brood Trilogy by Octavia Butler

9. Valis / Flow My Tears the Policeman Said / Ubik  by Philip K. Dick

10. Train Whistle Guitar by Arthur Murray

11. The Collected Stories / For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

12. The Work of Samuel Beckett

13. The Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

14. As I Lay Dying / The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

15. Journey to the End of Night / Death on the Installment Plan by Celine

Nonfiction:

1. The Myth of Sisyphus / The Rebel by Albert Camus

2. The Human Condition / Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt 

3. Sister Outsider / Zami by Audre Lorde

4. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly / Gender Trouble / Precarious Life by Judith Butler

5. Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 

6. Time and Free Will / Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson

7. Chaos / The Information by James Gleick 

8. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

9. Discipline and punish / History of Sexuality / Madness and Civilization by Foucault 

10. Democracy and Education / Political Writings by John Dewey 

11. The Queer Art of Failure / trans* by Halberstram

12. On Play & Games: Homo Ludens (Johan Huizinga) + The Grasshopper (Bernard Suits) + Philosophical Investigations (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

13. On Physics: The Theory of Almost Anything: The Standard Model (Robert Oerter) + The Tao of Physics (Fritjof Capra) + Six Easy Pieces (Richard Feynman)

14. The Ethics of Ambiguity / Pyrrhus and Cineas by Simone de Beauvoir

15. Life Beside Itself by Lisa Stevenson

The In-Between:

1. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

2. Shobogenzo by Dogen

3. Alcoholics Anonymous by Anonymous

Walter, S. and Lucas, K. (2024). “Caring at the Threshold: Innovation as Care at the Edges and In-Betweens of Civic Life,”Azimuth International Journal of Philosophy, 23 no. 2.

→ Read: bit.ly/caring-threshold

Gordon, E. and Walter, S. (2019). “Meaningful Inefficiencies: Resisting the Logic of Technological Efficiency in the Design of Civic Systems,” The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture, eds. Glas, René, et al. Amsterdam University Press.

→ Read: bit.ly/inefficiencies

Walter, S. and Subramanian, K. (2018). The City of Boston Smart City Playbook. City of Boston.

→ Read: bit.ly/smartcityplays

New Urban Mechanics. (2018). Civic Research Agenda (1st ed.). City of Boston. 

→ Read: bit.ly/civic-research

Gordon, E. and Walter, S. (2016). “Meaningful Inefficiencies,” Civic media: Technology, Design, Practice, eds. Paul Mihailidis and Eric Gordon. MIT Press. 

Gordon, E., Walter, S., Suarez, P. (2013). Engagement Games: A Case for Designing Games to Facilitate Real-World Action.  The Hague, Netherlands: International Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre.

→ Read: bit.ly/engagement-games

Walter, S. (2013). Review of Missions for Thoughtful Gamers  by Andrew Cutting, Journal of Media Literacy Education, 5(1). National Association for Media Literacy Education.

Walter, S. (2011). “Spiraling Thoughts: Transcribing Images of Time and Memory,” Emerson College Honors Thesis.

→ Read: bit.ly/honors-thesis

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