Between 1945 and 1949, Indonesia defended its recently declared indepen-dence, and the Netherlands waged its last major colonial war.1 Much is now known about this war, but a great deal has also remained unclear or con-tested. At the end of 2016, the second Rutte cabinet decided to finance a broad-based study – conducted by the kit lv, the nimh and niod2 – on the …
This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the d…