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Family Program | Print Your Own Woodtype Poster for the Holidays
Celebrate the holiday season by designing a letterpress poster to gift to a loved one or friend!
Family Program | Nature-Inspired Wallpaper
Design your own wallpaper inspired by the brilliant colors and shapes of fall in New York! Guest artist and educator Joe Baker will demonstrate how to make leaf rubbings and create a repeating pattern.
Drop-in Game Time with “Philanthropy”
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.
3 capes are suspended from the ceiling of a large, brightly lit room with windows on the back wall. The room has high ceilings, ornate crown molding, and the walls are decorated with floral wallpaper. The image is bordered in light purple. Text at the bottom reads: Making Home Smithsonian Design Triennial.
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...
A Dictionary of Ornament: Highlights from Cooper Hewitt’s Print Collection
A Dictionary of Ornament: Highlights from Cooper Hewitt’s Print Collection Join Cooper Hewitt for an illustrated talk exploring the Decloux collection of ornament and architecture prints. The museum is home to the premier collection of ornament prints in the United States, consisting of over 13,000 European prints from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The lecture...
3 capes are suspended from the ceiling of a large, brightly lit room with windows on the back wall. The room has high ceilings, ornate crown molding, and the walls are decorated with floral wallpaper. The image is bordered in light purple. Text at the bottom reads: Making Home Smithsonian Design Triennial.
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...
An architectural model of a 4 story building sits on a podium. 2 other models on podiums are visible behind the frontal model. The background is a drawn image of a green hillside. The image has a light purple border. Text at the bottom reads: Making Home Smithsonian Design Triennial.
Making Home with Data Lecture at The Cooper Union
Data journalist Mona Chalabi and representatives from the visual investigation practice SITU Research will discuss their installation "Patterns of Life" in the exhibition Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. Their work examines the impact of domicide—the destruction of civilian housing during military conflict—highlighting its profound effects on communities and international efforts to raise awareness of this pressing issue.
DESIGN PRACTICE | NEEDLE FELTING WITH LIAM LEE
Build your design toolkit! Design Practice is a series of free, drop-in workshops for high school students exploring techniques, strategies, and careers in design. No prior experience required—just bring yourself and a creative mindset. This month, join us for a workshop with designer Liam Lee, whose work is featured in our current exhibition Making Home. Get inspired by Lee’s needle felting skills and learn how to create your very own needle-felted patch to add to a beanie. All materials are included! 
Making Home Saturday Series: Cultivating Belonging and Reshaping an Understanding of Home (Session 2)
Session two of the inaugural Making Home Saturday Series features Chief of the Delaware Tribe of Indians Brad KillsCrow, Maria Nicanor, Director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Kevin Young, Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The session will explore the central role that community and organizational leaders play in reflecting a multiplicity of identities and concerns as a means of cultivating belonging and reshaping an understanding of home. The conversation will be moderated by architect, designer, and scholar Mabel O. Wilson.