On Crossings: Design, Language, Experience

On Crossings: Design, Language, ExperienceThis book was conceived as a result of a 10 day residency Minami Hirayama conducted at the Het Veem cultural facility in Amsterdam at the end of February 2025. Six Dutch based designers brought together "objects that come to mind when you hear the term 'cultural representation'," and the book includes long interviews that move between perspectives from Japan, Europe, and around the world. While touching on the politics hidden within visual expression

" The presence of these migratory plants in the American urban environment reflects a social mindset centered on privatization and property-driven development

printed in sections on the next and even the following page – so ‘being the other’ is literally consigned to another page

Lieven De Boeck

and the World War II internment of Japanese Canadians who ran herring salteries and shipyards there

Assembling a Black Counter Culture

By inquiring into the political

and this time we’re staying up with you into the small hours of the night

entities in archetypal forms that foster different habits of usage and unforeseen functional performance

creating a generative palimpsest of poetic experience that was shared with the audience

Exutoire: Paul-Antoine Lucas

Chapter by chapter

or is it complementing each other