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A video made to communicate the "Localizing Global Garment Biographies" research project, funded by the Dutch National Science Agenda (NWA). The term ‘biography’ here refers to the history of a garment – the story it tells.

The NWA funds projects that aim to utilize sci ...

Garment Connections

Localizing Global Garment Biographies

Are your T-shirts some of the least valuable pieces of clothing in your wardrobe? Or are they very important to you? Have you ever wondered about the origin of your T-shirts, how they were made, where, or by whom? Join us on a journey to explore the places where the cotton for T- ...
COVID-19 has made working from home routine for many. People who have had to maintain their productivity, particularly in physically and/or socially unacceptable home-working situations, experienced one of the pandemic’s disadvantages. The experience can vary substantially among ...

Essential Reading?

The Institut für Tropenbau's Publications as Primers for the Design-Build Movement

The Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Building in the Tropics, IFT), founded by the German architect Georg Lippsmeier in 1969, impacted architectural production in diverse geographies and cultural contexts until the late 20th century. As the research arm of the international ...
Studies suggest that communities with greater social and economic capital are better equipped to deal with crises such as the covid-19 pandemic (Kiruthu, 2014; Pitas & Ehmer, 2020). Although social, economic, and cultural capital influence the impact on a community during a p ...

Of mobility and earth

Hannah Schreckenbach's engagements with indigenous architectures in Ghana

An Exile’s Guide

Ernst Schaeffer’s Pictorial Bombay and the Construction of Bombay’s Touristscape

The sudden adoption of working from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic has required the reconfiguration of home spaces to fit space for remote work into existing spaces already filled with other domestic functions. This resulted in blurring of home and work boundaries, the p ...
Water has served and sustained societies throughout history. Understanding the complex and diverse water systems of the past is key to devising sustainable development for the future with regard to socioeconomic structures, policies, and cultures. Today, past systems form the fra ...