San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo, Detroit—and now New York! Autodesk’s popular Design Night makes its New York debut.  Hosted with America’s design museum and exploring a theme inspired by the Cooper Hewitt exhibition By the People: Designing a Better America, the evening will celebrate how design and technology are making a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

At Design Night: Designing a Better America, you’ll enjoy:

Access to the entire museum, including By the People: Designing a Better America and the accompanying interactive installation, Citizen Design.

A talk by designer Deanna Van Buren, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, featured in By the People

An open bar, food, DJ, hands-on activities, and more!

Design Night is a series of fun-filled design events around the globe presented by Autodesk that brings people together to explore a theme —both new and unexpected—and discover how technology and design are transforming our world.  Come join us to eat, drink, make, and learn!

Design Night: Designing a Better America is presented by Autodesk and Cooper Hewitt.


By the People: Designing a Better America is made possible by the generous support of

Additional support is provided by Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie, Deutsche Bank, Gensler, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Autodesk, and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Process Lab is made possible by major support from Alice Gottesman