Mobility history from a design historian's perspective The T~2M conference, 2007

摘要

The 2007 T~2M conference, held in Helmond, in the Netherlands, on 25-28 October, had as its main theme 'Heritage and Design'. Both terms direct attention at the artefact, and the conference aimed to bring design historians, museum curators and mobility historians together to push the boundaries of interdisciplinarity in those areas. The coincidence of the conference with Dutch Design Week, held in neighbouring Eindhoven, provided an opportunity for the T~2M conference not only to address design history through the papers that were presented but also to host a workshop on the subject of 'The Female Touch in Mobility and Design and its History', held in the Bavaria House in Helmond, and to engage directly with designed artefacts as well by judging an exhibition on car interiors, held in Helmond and participated in by a number of the Netherlands' leading art and design schools. This took the conference into new territory, adding to it an exciting new dimension.