The Trouble of All Inna Kochkina & Elisa Piazzi

What does universality mean?  

Can universality ever be achieved without collapsing into systems of generalisation or oppression? 

The Trouble of All - a call for complicating ‘universality’ challenges the tendency to oversimplify the concept of universality, emphasising the need to complicate it instead.

The all is trouble - and we choose to stay with it.

In this book, through workshops, conversations, and critical reflections, we work with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as both a lens and tool to make the idea of universality tangible. 

Bringing together voices from art, law, pedagogy, type design, and performance, The Trouble of All is a collaborative publication that challenges the dominant narratives of universality and human rights as neutral or equally shared by all. In doing so, we invite the reader to rethink, question, and continually rewrite what universality - and shared human rights - mean in our common world.

 • Universality • Universal rights  • Language  • Pedagogy  • Collective Practice 


Here you can try and Download 
the font ‘All’ by Inna Kochkina.

Softcover, 118 x 168mm, ISBN: 978-90-834231-6-6, Paper: Nautilus Classic & Trophée Intensive Pink, Typefaces:  Purae by Caterina Santullo & Revisions by Inna Kochkina, Printed byDrukkerij RaddraaierSSP, Amsterdam NL, Print run 400

HumDrumPress is a collaboratio-based publisher. Roles and responsibilities are therefore shared by all parties, within their capacities. The following persons contributed in a multitude of ways to making this publication possible: Akina Renard, Alejandra López, Alex Webber, Amy Gowen, Andre Perpignan, Anja Aurand, Antrianna Moutoula, Arianna Cavalensi, Aušra Česnauskytė, Ben Wels, Camilla Dorigatti, Caterina Santullo, Chiara Lacoste, Chloé Gourvennec, Claudia, Costanza Sartoris, Dana Claasen, Doğa Çakmakçı, Domiziana Francescon, Dustin James , Elina Alekseeva, Elin Kramer, Elisa Perpignan, Elisa Piazzi, Eslam Ghazy, Eva Oosterlaken, Federica Notari, Gabriela Sienkiewicz, Gabriella Kievit, Galiia Muratova, George Orlov, Georgie Brinkman, Hayden Bouvet, HumDrumPress, Ieva Maslinskaitė, Ilaria Palmieri, Inna Kochkina, Iris Farinha, Irina Shapiro, Johannes Equizi, , Julita Venslovaite, Jurgen Bey, Just Lievense, Katrine Dissing, Laura Snijders, Leonie Brandner, Lise Feierabend, Lorenzo Gottini, Lou, Lucia, Maha Rhannam, Manon Buskes, Manon McNab, Marguerite d‘Ervau, María Rivero, Marta Lopes Santos, Matteo Vianello, Massimo Piazzi , Mika Kuilboer, Mohammad Mishal, Nicoletta Nones, Nikolaj Fondt Salzwedell, Nishiko, Noemi Biasetton, Ola Vasiljeva, Ozgür Deniz Koldaş, Ozgür Koldaş, Parsa Adibi, Pieter Verbeke, Rachel van der Veen, Rozien Kuipers, Ryu Koivukoski, Samuel Arnewid, Sartoris Costanza, Sébastien Tien, Silvia Mule, Stephanie Bolder, Sunny Goudsblom, Thor Farup, Tiziana Ceol , Tobias Krasenberg, Vivian’ Stage, Wibke Bramesfeld, Wijs de Groot

We would also like to thank the following institutions for their support:  ADI Design Museum, Milano IT , KABK Royal Academy of Art, The Hague NL, Meta Forte, Venice IT, Page Not Found, The Hague NL, P-OST, Arnhem NL, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam NL, San Serriffe, Amsterdam NL, Wijkcentrum Bezuidenhout, The Hague NL, W139, Amsterdam NL, Primary school, Castello di Fiemme, IT, Kindergarten, Castello di Fiemme, IT

Funding Acknowledgements: Creative Industries Fund NL & Gemeente Den Haag

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