In this 20 minute talk, Amy Smith, founder, MIT D-Lab (2019 Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award Winner) talks with Cooper Hewitt Director of Digital and Emerging Media Carolyn Royston on the topic “Empowerment through Participatory Design.”
In this 20 minute talk, Tobias Frere-Jones (2019 Communication Design Award Winner), and Susan Kare (2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner), talk with Cooper Hewitt Director of Education Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar on the topic “Points, Picas, and Pixels”.
In this 20 minute talk, famous Nike designer Tinker Hatfield (2019 Product Design Award Winner) talks with Scott Dadich of Godfrey Dadich Partners, and Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt Associate Curator of Contemporary Design about the topic “Storytelling Through Design”.
In this 20 minute talk, winner of the 2019 Design Mind Award Patricia Moore and Pinar Guvenc, board member of Open Style Lab (Emerging Designer Award), talk with Cooper Hewitt Curatorial Director Cara McCarty speak on the topic “Why Inclusive Design Matters”.
What does it feel like to have your face registered as a data point? To be seen or evaluated by a computer? While artificial intelligence has become a pervasive technology in our daily lives, it often goes unnoticed. Artists and designers Luke Dubois, Zach Lieberman, and Jessica Helfand discuss their work within the larger context...
Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, Director of Education at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum moderates a panel with 2019 National Design Award winners: Pinar Guvenc, Open Style Lab (Emerging Designer Award) Derek Lam (Fashion Design Award) Patricia Moore (Design Mind Award) This panel was held as part of Include, a biennial international conference that focuses on issues central...
The beauty of natural forms and their underlying design principles provide living organisms with their incredible strength, resilience, and efficiency. Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Director of Curatorial and Head of Textiles leads a discussion with Don Ingber, founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and his co-faculty member Pamela Silver....
Live from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. The 20th Annual National Design Awards is made possible by generous support from Target. Additional support is provided by Design Within Reach, Facebook, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. National Design Award trophies are created by The Corning Museum of Glass. ndagallery.cooperhewitt.org is powered by Behance, part...
exploreing the evolution of colors in design, the role of color in the natural world, and the inspiration designers have long drawn from nature.
For decades, artificial intelligence has held a prominent position in our collective imagination, powering future visions ranging from transhumanist utopia to dystopian depictions of a world run by machines. As such, exploring, critiquing, and understanding the ethical implications of AI within a museum context is becoming a pressing need. In an evening co-hosted by The...
Louise Sandhaus, co-author of A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer in conversation with design legend Gere Kavanaugh. They discuss the breadth of Kavanaugh’s expansive contributions to design over the last seven decades, in a career that covered everything from flamboyant textiles to unique furniture, playful products, vibrant interiors, and so much more. This program is...
Lawrence Azerrad, Grammy Award-winning author of Supersonic, and Debbie Millman, National Design Award-winning host of Design Matters, have a conversation on the ingenuity and enduring creative legacy of Concorde, the world’s first—and so far only—luxury supersonic airliner. Supersonic explores the history, design, technology, and lifestyle of Concorde, the 1960s aircraft that could cross the Atlantic in under three hours. Yet, more...
Max Liboiron is a feminist environmental scientist, science and technology studies (STS) scholar, and activist. As an Assistant Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Liboiron directs Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory that specializes in grassroots environmental monitoring of marine plastic pollution. Liboiron’s STS work focuses on how invisible...
In this program, experts discuss biomimicry and biophilia and how designs inspired by the natural world contribute to humanity, moderated by Lana Sutherland, CEO & Co-Founder of TEALEAVES. The talk is part of Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, an exhibition co-organized with Cube design museum in the Netherlands featuring more than 60 groundbreaking works from designers...
How are designers and marketers working to change fashion for people with disabilities? What is Universal Design? How does representation further inclusive practices? What is the future of fashion and disability? A recent conversation between brand ambassadors, designers, and industry pioneers explored the development of fashion for people with disabilities, representation, and the business case...
