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.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.
For the next Design Index, writer, creative researcher, teacher, and library collaborator Shannon Mattern and Cooper Hewitt Librarian Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi will discuss the nature of the index—a way finding tool frequently used in libraries to help users find information quickly. In an era of tremendous technological transformation, particularly amid the rise of artificial intelligence and its distillation of the world’s knowledge, how might a design library like Cooper Hewitt’s help us to appreciate the index as a design system that creates order in our world? During the program, the books, journals, artifacts, and other materials Mattern has been studying and referencing during the last three months at the library will be on view, highlighting her ongoing research on the aesthetics of public knowledge infrastructures, from interface design to library architecture.
Experience a live performance by American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) including Davóne Tines and serpentwithfeet, atop of “Living Room: Orlean, Virginia"— Tines’s installation with Hugh Hayden and Zack Winokur for Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial.
Experience Cooper Hewitt’s collection and exhibitions through drawing! In this session, we'll sketch in the galleries of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, which explores 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 in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design. This exhibition is full of visual imagery to spark the imagination for sketching!
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...
