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Drop-In On Design | Objects + Light = Design  
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
Drop-In On Design | Letter Beats 
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
Drop-In On Design | Find Your Angle 
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
Drop-In On Design | Find Your Angle
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
Drop-In On Design | Design Around Town
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
Drop-In On Design | Design Around Town
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
Outdoor table full of children and adults sitting in orange chairs playing a design game.
Drop-In On Design | What Makes NYC Feel Like Home?
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
Outdoor table full of children and adults sitting in orange chairs playing a design game.
Drop-In On Design | What Makes NYC Feel Like Home?
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
Outdoor table full of children and adults sitting in orange chairs playing a design game.
Drop-In On Design | What Makes NYC Feel Like Home?
While the museum’s galleries are closed for installation, join free drop-in design activities in the Garden.  
On left, Shannon Mattern presenting in front of a black podium next to a screen with a blue and white image. On right, a photo of a Rolodex, contact cards on a shuffling stand, next to a brown box.
Design Index featuring Shannon Mattern
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.
AMOC* Live Performance with serpentwithfeet
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.
Drop-In Sketching in the Galleries: 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! 
Curator Tour: Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial
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...
Curator Tour: Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial
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...
Drop-In Sketching in the Galleries: 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!