The publication project The Other designs, adopts a critical viewpoint shared by many contemporary academics that highlight how the institutionalization of antiquity as "national heritage" has shaped an ideological framework for experiencing and performing a national identity. This viewpoint "kick-starts" an approach to the idea that nations such as Greece are in some way a multifaceted "assemblage", of constellated projections. The Other designs, aims to contribute to the current re-examination of historical authenticity by reflecting upon the status of national identity as a kind of "artistic" setup.

Heiko Schmid is a Art Historian. He studied Art History, Media Theory and Philosophy at Technical University of Berlin, University of Potsdam and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (ZKM) - where he received a M.A. Degree. He holds a doctorate from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and is currently working as a Assistant Professor at the Master of Arts in Fine Arts course of studies at Zurich University of the Arts. He was involved in several exhibition, recherche and publication projects concerning themes like artistic visions of materiality, theories of time (with a focus on conceptions of the past and the future) / of technology as well as outer space conceived as a artistic "Möglichkeitsraum".