Dutch Design Week 2021 (DDW21) has chosen the overarching theme ‘The Greater Number: The search for the better number’. With this theme, DDW21 is first and foremost calling for less. Where less is not the best solution to more, but better. In 4 subthemes (It's in our nature, Things that matter, Cabinet of collaborations and One size won't fit all), we explore different perspectives to this quest, and we invite the design field to reflect on this during DDW21.