People - writers mostly, but activist figures and co-researchers too - who've signposted paths I walk. Alphabetical order.
Christopher Alexander (www.mediamatic.nl 
) is an architect and professor emeritus at Cal Berkeley. He is very interested in design, and computer folks who read his books are always impressed by the parallels with designing software. He originated the patterns concept in the later 1960s and early '70s. In particular, a lot of the jargon we use when we are talking about patterns, such as "forces" and the distinction between problem and solution, come from his work.
P2P Foundation / Michel Bauwens - the P2P-commons movement seems to me the biggest thing in my baby-boomer lifetime.
>C West Churchman - proponent of 'the systems approach'. Theorist of knowing practices. A subject of my PhD research; and examiner. To be added xxx
>Louis E Davis - edited *Design of jobs' . . which started it all, in a way. To be added xxx
>David Harvey - cities and regions, physical STUFF, uneven development, dialectics and counter-hegemony. And Marx's *Capital*. Serious stuff! To be added xxx.
> Gyorgy Kepes - convened wonderful explorations at MIT in the 60s. *Sign, image & symbol* changed my life - ethnography, semiotics, neuroscience, graphic design, cybernetics (autopoeisis). To be added xxx
In the 70s, his *Deschooling society* and *Tools for conviviality* brought me to a participant awareness of radical professionalism, as a historical movement of baby-boomers.
Karl Marx - way too much stuff to collate. But in the 70s, he led the way. And historical materialism (cultural materialism) is SO much bigger and better an option now, 50 years on :)
A lighthouse. Since he died in 2017, his work has become a centre of my work.
>Raymond Williams - my main man in the 70s and 80s, after Marx. Alongside Ivan Illich. To be added xxx.
>Stephen Yeo - a dear friend of Robin Murray and, since Robin's death, of mine. Stephen and I share a deep involvement with Raymond Williams, the professional-managerial class, and with 'the aesthetic landscape' and 'structures of feeling' - foundations of the future of associationist socialsms?. To be added xxx.
>Where are the women Mike? Maya Angelou, Ursula leGuin, Our bodies ourselves, Ehernreich 150 years of the experts' advice to women, Pink collar blues.
>Leigh Star - feminist sociologist of invisible work, boundary objects and infrastructuring. Member of 'Oksnøen Nation'. To be added xxx
>Lucy Suchman - ethnomethodologist, 'studying up' at Xerox PARC in the 90s, and revealing how plans were in fact situated actions. Co-convener of Oksnøen symposia in participatory design & computer supported cooperative work. To be added xxx
>Numerous others to be added xxx.
# Less immediate influences . . but Zeitgeist-ish.
Donald Schõn - one of the metaphor pioneers in the 90s, with Reddy, Lackoff. To be added xxx
Middleton & Edwards - collective remembering, distributed memory & intelligence. To be added xxx
Dennis Wood - the power of maps. Barthes' semiotics, beautifully demonstrated and significantly applied. To be added xxx