In this 20 minute talk, Amy Smith, founder, MIT D-Lab (2019 Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award Winner) talks with Cooper Hewitt Director of Digital and Emerging Media Carolyn Royston on the topic “Empowerment through Participatory Design.”

In this 20 minute talk, Tobias Frere-Jones (2019 Communication Design Award Winner), and Susan Kare (2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner), talk with Cooper Hewitt Director of Education Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar on the topic “Points, Picas, and Pixels”.

In this 20 minute talk, famous Nike designer Tinker Hatfield (2019 Product Design Award Winner) talks with Scott Dadich of Godfrey Dadich Partners, and Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt Associate Curator of Contemporary Design about the topic “Storytelling Through Design”.

In this 20 minute talk, winner of the 2019 Design Mind Award Patricia Moore and Pinar Guvenc, board member of Open Style Lab (Emerging Designer Award), talk with Cooper Hewitt Curatorial Director Cara McCarty speak on the topic “Why Inclusive Design Matters”.

2017 National Design Award winners Mary Ping and Joe Doucet lead a master class exploring their designs featured in Cooper Hewitt’s exhibition Tablescapes: Designs for Dining.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum celebrates the 2018 National Design Awards in Boston with a lively conversation with National Design Award winners, including: Mikyoung Kim, Founding Principal, Mikyoung Kim Design (Landscape Architecture Award) Sunanda Sharma, researcher, The Mediated Matter Group (Interaction Design Award) Anne Whiston Spirn, landscape architect, professor, and author (Design Mind Award) Moderated...

Gail Anderson is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Blu Dot is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Product Design.

Mikyoung Kim Design is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Landscape Architecture.

Oppenheim Architecture + Design is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Interior Design.

Neri Oxman is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Interaction Design.

Christina Kim is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Fashion Design.

Civilization is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design.

Weiss/Manfredi is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Architecture Design.

Design for America is the 2018 Winner of the National Design Award for Corporate & Institutional Achievement.