Im Besengebiet / Field of Brooms childhood Design Struggles brings together an

Design Struggles brings together an urgent and expansive array of voices and views

Nigeria spent an unbroken quarter century as a military dictatorship

which was the outcome of a collaboration involving the AVU Research Institute

I hope my work would inspire the pursuit of a new balance to the conflicted within the self and between the self and otherness

class and the fragility of social structures

Im Besengebiet / Field of Brooms childhood Design Struggles brings together anIn the Bernese Oberland and other places throughout Switzerland, women make hand brooms from moor grass. Similar brooms are to be found in countries such as Greece, Spain, China, India and Ghana, as well as on the Cook Islands. The oldest examples, more than 3000 years old, are from Egypt. Given that the material used seems to be of no value, the artistry with which these everyday objects are made is astonishing. This richly illustrated book explores