Design Conversations

Intelligent Coalitions Posted by Cynthia E. Smith, on Friday March 02, 2012 The one-day Social Impact Design Summit, held on February 27, 2012, brought together individuals who engage in socially responsible design every day: public-interest architects, industrial designers, planners, civil-society designers, landscape architects, engineers, and inventors from Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, working in the private, public and social sectors. social impact, coalitions, private sector, public sector, social sector, questions, models, systemic, sustainable
Social Impact Design Summit Posted by Bill Moggridge, on Tuesday February 21, 2012 What? Design is a process that can solve problems, and socially responsible design is design that seeks to solve problems which vex the world’s poor and marginalized communities. Simply put, socially responsible design uses innovation and the tools of design to improve access to services such as healthcare and education and increase social, economic, and environmental sustainability. social impact, design summit, socially responsible, problem solving, communities, services, access
4 Questions 4: Critter and Guitari Posted by Katie Shelly, on Wednesday February 15, 2012 We got in touch with Critter & Guitari, electronic instrument designers from Philadelphia, to ask them four questions about their practice of design, music, and art. 4 Questions 4, Critter and Guitari, music, electronic instruments, instruments
2012 Scholars Program Posted by Monica Harriss, on Wednesday February 08, 2012 Cooper-Hewitt’s DesignPrep is a series of free design-education programs that introduces New York City high-school students to collegiate and career opportunities in design. Participating students attend design workshops with professional designers, visit design colleges as well as designers’ studios, and engage in professional development. designprep, Scholars Program, 2012, high school students, Teens, youth, New York City, NYC, career opportunities
Target: Design in the Classroom Posted by Micah Walter, on Friday February 03, 2012 Target: Design in the Classroom is an innovative new program that brings Cooper-Hewitt, to NYC schools. This video shows a kids-eye-view into a full day of design workshops at P.S. 124 in South Ozone, Queens. Design in the Classroom, target, education, program, Workshop, school-age, K-12, k12, students, New York City, NYC
Object of the Month - February 2012: Knoll Textiles Posted by Susan Brown, on Wednesday February 01, 2012 For over seventy years, Knoll has been a leader in modern workplace furnishings and textiles. Cooper-Hewitt recently added forty pieces of Knoll textiles and furniture to the collection, most of which were recently seen in the exhibition Knoll Textiles: 1945–2010 at the Bard Graduate Center Museum in New York. Object of the Month, textiles, Knoll, workplace, furnishings, acquisitions
Cooper-Hewitt Visits Smart Design Posted by Katie Shelly, on Friday January 27, 2012 Cooper-Hewitt recently acquired several original prototypes and drawings used to develop OXO's Good Grips product line. Cooper-Hewitt curators identified this line for the museum's collection because the products were a game-changing innovation iconic of late 20th century design. SmartDesign, products, product design, product development, oxo, good grips, icon, 20th century, acquisitions
Scher Abundance Posted by Bill Moggridge, on Friday January 27, 2012 There is a show called MAPS at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery exhibiting an abundant selection of cartographic paintings by Paula Scher of Pentagram, including pieces painted between 1998 and 2010. You don’t realize how big these paintings are when you see them online or reproduced as prints—for example, the World Trade map from 2010 is 92” high by 157” wide. Paula Scher, Pentagram, cartographic, paintings, map, MAPS, big
Constructive Maps Posted by Sharon Haar, on Thursday January 26, 2012 Descriptions of the world’s informal settlements are often filled with two kinds of figures – images of families living and working in deeply impoverished conditions are matched with global urbanization statistics. Mediating between these two types of information is the process of enumeration and community mapping. MAPS, map making, advocacy, citizen, enumeration, community mapping, Hull-House, Florence Kelley, interactive websites, living project, Ushahidi, Voice of Kibera, local
4 Questions 4: Matt Webb Posted by Seb Chan, on Wednesday January 25, 2012 Here’s the first installment of our new series, 4 Questions 4, which poses four questions to designers who work primarily in the technology and media space. Our first guest is Matt Webb, CEO and Principal of London-based design studio Berg. 4 Questions 4, Matt Webb, BERG, technology, media space