Public Programs

Deanna Van Buren, architect and founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, will discuss the installation "Architecture of Reentry" in the exhibition Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. Designing Justice + Designing Spaces is a design, architecture, and real-estate enterprise working to end mass incarceration and advocating for restorative justice solutions through the built environment. The “Architecture of Reentry” proposes Mobile Refuge Rooms as a prototype for private, customizable transitional housing for people returning from carceral spaces. View full event details here.

Play Philanthropy, a new board game exploring power and access inspired by Andrew Carnegie, whose mansion is now home to Cooper Hewitt. Designed by Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial participant Tommy Mishima, the game is inspired by Monopoly, with the objective to become the most influential and philanthropic agent through grant making, fundraising, and selling access to institutional research. View full event details here.

In this curator-guided tour of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, visitors will explore some of the exhibition’s 25 original commissions, highlighting design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional experiences of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established... View full event details here.