Live from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. The 20th Annual National Design Awards is made possible by generous support from Target. Additional support is provided by Design Within Reach, Facebook, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. National Design Award trophies are created by The Corning Museum of Glass. ndagallery.cooperhewitt.org is powered by Behance, part...
exploreing the evolution of colors in design, the role of color in the natural world, and the inspiration designers have long drawn from nature.
For decades, artificial intelligence has held a prominent position in our collective imagination, powering future visions ranging from transhumanist utopia to dystopian depictions of a world run by machines. As such, exploring, critiquing, and understanding the ethical implications of AI within a museum context is becoming a pressing need. In an evening co-hosted by The...
Louise Sandhaus, co-author of A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer in conversation with design legend Gere Kavanaugh. They discuss the breadth of Kavanaugh’s expansive contributions to design over the last seven decades, in a career that covered everything from flamboyant textiles to unique furniture, playful products, vibrant interiors, and so much more. This program is...
Lawrence Azerrad, Grammy Award-winning author of Supersonic, and Debbie Millman, National Design Award-winning host of Design Matters, have a conversation on the ingenuity and enduring creative legacy of Concorde, the world’s first—and so far only—luxury supersonic airliner. Supersonic explores the history, design, technology, and lifestyle of Concorde, the 1960s aircraft that could cross the Atlantic in under three hours. Yet, more...
Max Liboiron is a feminist environmental scientist, science and technology studies (STS) scholar, and activist. As an Assistant Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Liboiron directs Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory that specializes in grassroots environmental monitoring of marine plastic pollution. Liboiron’s STS work focuses on how invisible...
In this program, experts discuss biomimicry and biophilia and how designs inspired by the natural world contribute to humanity, moderated by Lana Sutherland, CEO & Co-Founder of TEALEAVES. The talk is part of Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, an exhibition co-organized with Cube design museum in the Netherlands featuring more than 60 groundbreaking works from designers...
How are designers and marketers working to change fashion for people with disabilities? What is Universal Design? How does representation further inclusive practices? What is the future of fashion and disability? A recent conversation between brand ambassadors, designers, and industry pioneers explored the development of fashion for people with disabilities, representation, and the business case...
DESIGNING THE SUBLIME: MECHANISM, RISK, AND WONDER World-renowned antiquarian horologist Brittany Nicole Cox explores the diverse utilization of the machine in design through a selection of objects drawn from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and other Smithsonian museums. Examples range from a nineteenth-century singing bird box to the world’s first tuning fork watch. Cox makes...
Cooper Hewitt, in collaboration with the DesignSingapore Council present an evening of conversation.
Designers Shahar Livne and Charlotte McCurdy in conversation with Caitlin Condell, Associate Curator and Head of Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design. Join us for a discussion exploring the ways in which designers consider the abundance of materials available to them in the 21st century. As the boundary between ‘synthetic’ and ‘natural’ materials becomes increasingly blurry,...
Designers from Ensamble Studio and CAVE Bureau in conversation with Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Curatorial Director.
Talk on What role does biological growth play in 21st-century design?
A conversation with designer and artist Rebeca Ménde
Recorded live: A conversation on how design has shaped Detroit with National Design Award winners, including: David Malda, Principal, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (2011 Landscape Architecture Award) Chris Reed, Founder and Director, Stoss Landscape Urbanism (2012 Landscape Architecture Award) Richard Roark, Partner, OLIN (2008 Landscape Architecture Award) Craig Wilkins, architect, academic, and author (2017 Design Mind...
