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DesignPrep: The Digital Curators Project A short video explaining youth participation in shaping Cooper-Hewitt's effort to make its vast collection web-accessible. NYC teens work with museum staff to select objects, tag them in their own words, and suggest features to make the virtual museum system more youth-friendly. designprep, Teens, youth, high school, New York City, NYC, digital curating, digital curation, virtual museum, collection, tagging, design education, education, workshops, free, hands-on, Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid, objects, feedback
Cooper-Hewitt: Design for the Other 90% - Panel Discussion This panel highlights the growing trend in design to create affordable and socially responsible objects for the vast majority of the world's population (90%) not traditionally serviced by designers. Contributors to the exhibition Design for the Other 90% discuss the design and use of affordable and socially responsible objects. Be among the first to see the exhibition which illustrates the power of design to improve quality of life everywhere. Design for the Other 90%, Exhibition, panel, affordable, socially responsible, objects, underserved populations, quality of life, Martin Fisher, Paul Polak, Ron Rivera, Modesta Nyirenda-Zabula, talk, long, public program
Cooper-Hewitt: How and Why Things Work - Keynote, Ellen Lupton Curator Ellen Lupton uses concrete examples to discuss how designed objects and environments affect human behavior. Through objects from the past and present, she demonstrates how good design can solve everyday problems. How Things Work, Ellen Lupton, curator, contemporary design, objects, product design, solving problems, keynote, talk, Lecture, long, public program
Crowdsourced Crochet You’ve heard of open-source software. But what about open-source objects? The Los Angeles-based Institute For Figuring shares the instructions and principles behind their hyperbolic crochet technique right on their website. crochet, crowdsourced, open source, open-source, objects, Institute for Figuring, IFF, instructions, Bleached Roof, online, participate, contribution
Design Miami First stop: Moorhead & Moorhead’s Design Miami/ tent exterior. The Cooper-Hewitt group was greeted by brothers, Robert (industrial designer) and Granger (architect), to talk about the dynamic canopied entrance to the design show – a bris soleil of hand cut, twisted vinyl strips that perform a dance of shadows on the ground. Design Miami, 2010, Design Watch, members, tour, Moorhead & Moorhead, Konstantin Grcic, Design with the Other 90%: Cities, exhibition design, Venice Projects, Glass, Kiki Van Eijk, Joost van Bleiswijk, Industry Gallery, Tejo Remy, René Veenhuizen, furniture design, Cristina Grajales, installation, objects, Barry Friedman, contemporary work, Cabbage chairs, Nendo, pleated, paper, Galerie Kreo
On Transparency What does it mean to want everyone to have access to knowledge about everything businesses and government are doing? Is the act of living with transparent things merely a tugging at the will to become invisible, to have less impact on the environment? transparency, transparent, objects, spaces, impact, Information, externality, explanation, access, corruption, networking, cameras
Designing Discussion There is no shortage of practical objects in the 2010 Triennial. You will see everything from noble solutions for global issues, to networking sites that ensure our most mundane thoughts never go unpublished. Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, pratical, objects, Dunne + Raby, moral, social, implications, technology, Risk Watch, political, stability, provocative, critical, humor, absurdity, discussion
Designing Discussion There is no shortage of practical objects in the 2010 Triennial. You will see everything from noble solutions for global issues, to networking sites that ensure our most mundane thoughts never go unpublished Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, pratical, objects, Dunne + Raby, moral, social, implications, technology, Risk Watch, political, stability, provocative, critical, humor, absurdity, discussion
Understanding the American Experience The final grand challenge posed by Secretary Wayne Clough for the new strategic plan of the Smithsonian is explained by the sentence: “America is an increasingly diverse society that shares a history, ideals, and an indomitable, innovative spirit." challenge, Wayne Clough, smithsonian, diverse, Experience Design, objects, interactive, technology, Information, Architecture, spaces, experience, inclusive, systems, services, complex, digital, abstract, virtual, context, internet, Web, connectivity, link, American, disciplines, resources, museums, research, libraries, history, groups, individual, National, stories, stimulate
Design Trio: Cooper-Hewitt, west elm, David Stark On March 3, Cooper-Hewitt’s Members (Contributing level and above) joined the private opening of west elm’s newest location on the upper west side. Event designer extraordinaire David Stark created one-of-a-kind furniture and objects from recycled west elm packing materials and catalogs. West Elm, Upper West Side, New York City, NYC, store opening, David Stark, event desinger, furniture, objects, housewares, recycled, materials, catalogs, auction, Display