RECALL/RECALIBRATE
Re-membering design histories





Recall/Recalibrate investigates the so-called ‘ethical policy’ at the turn of the twentieth century in Dutch-occupied Indonesia. How can we understand these ‘ethics’ in relation to the expansion of empire, and how did this materialize through arts and crafts education? 




Please find below an overview of all the articles:

  1. Introduction [links to individual article pages] pp. …
  2. Title to be confirmed Ethical Imperialism pp. …
  3. A Firm Nudge: Politics of Reform through ‘inlandsche kunstnijverheid’ by Rosa te Velde pp. …
  4. Dangerous Competitors: The Dutch Ethical Policy’ (1901) and the Establishment of Craft Schools in East Java by Marjolein van Pagee   pp. …
  5. Decolonising the Myth of Kartini by Saut Situmorang pp. …
  6. A rejuvenation cure?: Inventing Yogya Silver, ‘saving’ a perishing Javanese industry, by Marjolein van Asdonck pp. …
  7. Dewi Sartika and Ruhana Kuddus’ Craft(wo)manship: Navigating Colonial Emancipation by Raistiwar Pratama pp. …
  8. (Epilogue)




Download the entire publication HERE 




COLOPHON
AUTHORS
Marjolein van Asdonck
Raistiwar Pratanama
Saut Situmorang
Marjolein van Pagee
Rosa te Velde

READERS
Fitria Jelyta
Lisa Baumgarten
Esmee Schoutens

EDITING/PROOFREADING
Marjolein van Pagee
Harriet Foyster

IMAGE RESEARCH
Rosa te Velde

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Zuzana KostelanskáCC BY-NC-ND

This project is published under CC BY-NC-ND license, which enables reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. 

Some of the texts were published before by the Wereldmuseum (‘Ethical Imperialism’ and ‘A Firm Nudge: Politics of Reform through ‘inlandsche kunstnijverheid’ by Rosa te Velde and A rejuvenation cure?: Inventing Yogya Silver, ‘saving’ a perishing Javanese industry, by Marjolein van Asdonck)
2025

This project was funded by Het Stimuleringsfonds voor de Creatieve Industrie.