Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Triennial

Come join us for a private tour of the

Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Triennial.

Two tours start at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.

respectively. Join us for a special

Stammtisch and enjoy summer drinks

in the beautiful Cooper-Hewitt

garden afterwards.

Please Join Us on Friday, July 9th at 6:00 pm

Event Location

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

2 E 91 St (5th avenue)

New York, NY 10128

212- 489-8404

FREE IDSA members

$10 non-IDSA

more information: idsanyc.org

Why Design Now? Designers around the world are answering this question by creating products, prototypes, buildings, landscapes, messages and more that address social and environmental challenges. How can we power the world with clean energy? How can we move people and products safely and efficiently? How can we shelter communities in sustainable environments? How can we close the loop of materials extraction and disposal? How can we enable people around the globe to generate and

share wealth? How can we improve the quality of life for all people through health-care innovations? How can we communicate ideas effectively and creatively? How can we

discover beauty and wisdom in simple forms that use minimal resources? Collectively, designers are seeking to enhance human health, prosperity and comfort while diminishing the conflicts between people and the global ecosystems we inhabit.

Why Design Now? is the fourth installation in the NationalDesign Triennial exhibition series launched by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2000. The Triennial provides a sample of contemporary innovation, looking at what progressive designers, engineers, entrepreneurs and citizens are doing in diverse fields and at different scales around the world. Included are practical solutions already in use as well as experimental ideas designed to inspire further research. A few projects will provoke controversy, answering some questions while raising others. Each one — from a soil-powered table lamp to a post-petroleum urban utopia — celebrates the transformative power of design.

The exhibition itself is an exercise in environmentally responsible design. In collaboration with the exhibition designer, Tsang Seymour, the Museum has employed

eco-safe materials, modular components, simple mounting techniques and materials-reduction strategies wherever possible. And the exhibition design can be remade at traveling exhibition sites using local materials. Together, these steps make Why Design Now? the most sustainable exhibition in the Museum’s history. And we are only just

getting started.

more exhibit info:

http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org

/Why-Design-Now