A project about design, history, present-day and future.
Design developed in parallel with industrial society. It has been part of the development of the present state of things. Today, forming a sustainable development is an urgent issue, meaning we must reconsider existing paradigms and search for new paths, including for design. By challenging design history, where we understand history in a different way, we build new pathways to where we are, allowing us to find seeds for a sustainable future. We alter design history and, from here, we seek new pathways to where we are, allowing us to find seeds for a sustainable future. We need to re-learn the archive.
We are formulating a design and craft history that originates from Småland. It is a region with many amazing amateur museums, local historical homesteads and other history associations narrating how diverse everyday lives have been shaped. We stich a multitude of places, stories and perspectives together, creating a diverse, kaleidoscopic design history. Through the project, we re-learn together with curious people inside and outside of Småland – young and old, designers, crafters, students, and many others.
