How can we apply anti-waste strategies to an unrelentingly industrialized future? Join MI Leggett, Founder and Creative Director of Official Rebrand, and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for a discussion on past, present, and future perspectives on waste and sustainability in design and beyond. This workshop is designed for educators eager to explore ways to support sustainable habits in their students and classrooms.
Design Hive is a paid, youth-led initiative at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. High school juniors and seniors dive deep into design objects and processes to develop their own collaborative projects. Along the way, they will learn how designers move from an initial idea to final design!
This year, Design Hive will focus on how designers think about home — from building home and creating safer spaces to issues around housing and migration. We are looking for aspiring architects, city planners, activists, and more to join our cohort this year.
For the inaugural Design Index, artist Megumi Shauna Arai has been researching various aspects of her current work, including silk, ornament, pleating and draping. During the program, the materials Arai has been studying and referencing during the last three months at the library will be on view, highlighting her current index of research, inspiration, and interests.
Experience the Cooper Hewitt collection objects and exhibitions through drawing! An Atlas of Es Devlin is the first monographic exhibition of British artist and stage designer Es Devlin. The exhibition traces the throughline from Devlin’s early artwork, to sketches and stage plans, to models and videos of her stage designs activated. This exhibition is full of visual imagery to spark the imagination for sketching!
Product designer Lucia DeRespinis has been designing since the mid-1950s, creating everything from lighting for George Nelson Associates to the ubiquitous Dunkin' Donuts logo, designed in 1976 and still in use today. Join us for a conversation with DeRespinis as she discusses her long and highly influential career in design at a time when women designers were few and their work often unacknowledged.
Come tour the galleries and learn about how conservators work to preserve the collections for future generations. Specific examples of pieces that require special handling or treatment will be highlighted and the challenges of exhibiting in an historic mansion discussed. Questions about the conservation process will be welcomed. Tour led by Sarah Barack, Head of Conservation and Senior Objects Conservator.
In this curator-guided tour of Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, visitors will explore the historical foundations and the future direction of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection. The national design collection, which has been part of the Smithsonian since 1967, is a living one that continues to grow and change as new works and ideas that...
In this curator-guided tour of Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, visitors will explore the historical foundations and the future direction of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection. The national design collection, which has been part of the Smithsonian since 1967, is a living one that continues to grow and change as new works and ideas that...
In this curator-guided tour of Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, visitors will explore the historical foundations and the future direction of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection. The national design collection, which has been part of the Smithsonian since 1967, is a living one that continues to grow and change as new works and ideas that...
