The books gathered here form part of the intellectual landscape from which Wide Open Windows emerged. They are not presented as authorities, required reading, or pieces of a single doctrine, but as openings into different ways of understanding experience and the worlds that take shape within it.
Some of these works have directly influenced the Dioramic Approach. Others provide neighbouring perspectives, useful tensions, or challenges that have helped clarify its position. Together they form a working constellation rather than a canon.
The selection is deliberately incomplete. It favours books that continue to generate questions, alter perception, or reveal structures that ordinarily remain unnoticed.
The Dioramic Approach
These books develop the central investigation of Wide Open Windows: how experience becomes organised into coherent, inhabited worlds.
Ton Haarmans
How Lifeworlds Emerge
An accessible introduction to the central insight behind the Dioramic Approach: that a lifeworld is not merely found, represented, or observed, but continually brought into being through perception, language, embodiment, memory, expectation, and social participation.
Ton Haarmans
Reality
An investigation into what is meant when we speak of reality, and why the desire to discover what lies behind experience so often produces new constructions rather than access to a world untouched by interpretation.
Ton Haarmans
Living in Worlds
A further exploration of the way people inhabit different configurations of meaning, certainty, identity, and relation without necessarily recognising them as constructed worlds.
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