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This chapter will provide historical context for sonic interaction design by writing a history of sounding objects with a particular focus on the 20th century, the West, and the history of the car as a sounding object. The chapter’s introduction will clarify why it is useful to have historical knowledge of the everyday sounding objects of the past and the auditory cultures in which they functioned. Such historical knowledge will help to enhance the designers’ awareness of the changing

The digital research corpus ‘A rereading of the Werner Report of 8 October 1970 in the light of the Pierre Werner family archives’ showcases the results of the first stage of the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project (2011-2013).

The Orangerie: a unit in Luxembourg's neuropsychiatric hospital, its nursing staff, doctors and patients. A place where daily life is divided between trying to manage illness and learning to live with other people, a place that many have turned to for refuge yet can't wait to leave. We meet unique and desperate people, resourceful and powerless, talkative and silent, carers and cared-for, and are granted an insight into the unit's clinical approach. Mental illness has changed, along with its treatment and perception.

The history of the National Telecommunications Network for Technology, Education and Research, born in 1993, had its roots in the 1980s, when scientific actors started to build networks in France, in a simultaneous but still dispersed way. From the beginning, Renater was original: local initiatives preceded the implementation of a national infrastructure that became part of world exchanges.

Économiste et juriste, homme politique et diplomate, acteur de marque de la construction européenne et notamment de l’intégration monétaire, participant à l’édification du Luxembourg contemporain, membre des milieux académiques, très présent dans les réseaux économiques européens et outre-Atlantique et intellectuel catholique militant, Pierre Werner (29 décembre 1913 – 24 juin 2002) a traversé le XXe siècle.

This article is part of the Forum special issue about the relations between Luxembourg and the United States. In this context, 'Says Who?' analyses the complex reception of the work of Luxembourg born American artist and curator, Edward Steichen, in his native country.